Education: All Quiet on the Midway

When asked what he has done during

his 15 years at the University of Chicago,

Robert Maynard Hutchins, 45, likes to

answer: "Nothing at all." Last week the indolent president had once again done nothing but stir up a good section of U.S. higher education. The latest innovations and heterodoxies:

> Hutchins suggested that university presidents be given increased powers and be elected with faculty advice for a very short term, subject to impeachment by a faculty vote of no confidence−with responsibility for University policies then falling on the faculty.* > Hutchins proposed that faculty...

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