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1	Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950 more books like this by William H McNeill add to wishlist The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 marked the beginning of an extraordinarily vibrant period for the university and for American higher education in general. That same year, William H. McNeill arrived at the university to pursue his education. Here, McNeill creates a vivid ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $20.76! \| SVS
2	Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator more books like this by Mary Ann Dzuback add to wishlist As president of the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1951, Robert Maynard Hutchins came to be one of the most prominent and controversial figures in American higher education. To this day, his vision of what the university should be has given shape to twentieth-century debates over the content and function of education in the United States. In ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $18.79! \| first editions
3	Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago more books like this by Robin Lester add to wishlist For this first case study of college football by a social historian, Lester has brought life to the story of a university football program that had an unusual beginning, a glorious middle, and a unique and inglorious conclusion. The nation's first tenured coach and the most creative and entrepreneurial of all college coaches from the 1890s to the ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $41.97! \| SVS
4	A History of the University of Chicago, Founded by John D. Rockefeller: The First Quarter-Century more books like this by Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed add to wishlist The initial steps which led to the founding of the great educational institutions of the world are known in very few instances. Seldom was any record even made of them, their significance not being recognized when the events occurred. The author of this work was intimately connected with the persons and events involved in the founding of the ... see all copies from $5.38! new only from $30.36! \| first editions
5	The Dewey School - The Laboratory School of the University of Chicago 1896-1903 more books like this by Katherine Camp Mayhew add to wishlist This book talks of perhaps one of the greatest education experiments in the history of America. In 1894, John Dewey moved his position as Chairman of the Philosophy Department at the University of Michigan to assume the position as Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, Psychology, and Pedagogy at the University of Chicago. He would remain ... see all copies from $26.24! new only from $35.50! \| SVS
6	Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir more books like this by Milton Mayer, John H Hicks (Editor), Studs Terkel (Foreword by) add to wishlist At 28, he was Dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. Yet, when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35." Milton Mayer, Hutchin's colleague, gives an intimate picture of this ... see all copies from $9.83! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Pamphlet Architecture 22: Other Plans University of Chicago Studies 1998-2000 more books like this by Michael Sorkin add to wishlist Architect, writer, teacher--and agent provocateur--Michael Sorkin was commissioned by the University of Chicago in 1998 to produce an 'alternative' master plan for its architectural revitalization. His studio had barely begun before they were dropped from the process. In the capacity of concerned alumnus, however, Sorkin and his group soldiered on ... see all copies from $5.23! new only from $5.23! \| first editions
8	No Friendly Voice more books like this by Robert Maynard Hutchins add to wishlist NO FRIE PLY VOICE By ROBERT MAYNARP HUTCHINS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO ILLINOIS To THE PRESIDENT OF BEREA COLLEGE TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE To THE GRADUATING CLASS, 1935 . . i Convocation, University of Chicago, June, 1935 WHAT Is A UNIVERSITY . .... 5 Radio Address, April 18, 1935, Parent-Teachers Association PROFESSORS AND TRUSTEES .. ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $29.15! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Dewey's Laboratory School more books like this by Laurel N Tanner add to wishlist Laurel Tanner examines closely the practices and policies of Dewey's Laboratory School from its inception to the current day. There are extensive excerpts from the school's teachers' reports and other original records, and the volume provides a wealth of practical guidance on how schools today can introduce Deweyan reforms the way they were ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $21.95! \| SVS
10	A Home of Another Kind: One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare more books like this by Kenneth J Cmiel add to wishlist A historical account of the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum from 1860 through 1984, when it became a full-time research institute. Founded by a group of wealthy volunteers, the asylum was a Protestant institution for Protestant children - one of many around the country designed as places where single parents could leave their children if ... see all copies from $12.72! new only from $24.95! \| first editions
11 view cover	Remembering the University of Chicago: Teachers, Scientists, and Scholars more books like this by Edward Albert Shils (Editor) add to wishlist To celebrate the intellectual achievement of the University of Chicago on the occasion of its centennial year, Edward Shils invited a group of notable scholars and scientists to reflect upon some of their own teachers and colleagues at the University. see all copies from $5.35! new only from $42.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Chicago Sociology, 1920-1932 more books like this by Robert E. Lee Faris add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
13	The Idea of the University of Chicago: Selections from the Papers of the First Eight Chief Executives of the University of Chicago from 1891 to 1975 more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14 view cover	Uses of Gothic: Planning and Building the Campus of the University of Chicago 1892-1932 more books like this by Jean F Block add to wishlist see all copies from $11.89! first editions
15 view cover	Stagg's University more books like this by Robin Lester add to wishlist For this first case study of college football by a social historian, Lester has brought life to the story of a university football program that had an unusual beginning, a glorious middle, and a unique and inglorious conclusion. The nation's first tenured coach and the most creative and entrepreneurial of all college coaches from the 1890s to the ... see all copies from $5.24! new only from $96.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
16	The University of Chicago more books like this by Dan Dry (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies
17	Law on the Midway: The Founding of the University of Chicago Law School more books like this by Frank L Ellsworth add to wishlist see all copies from $7.25! signed copies \| first editions
18	A guide to the Oriental Institute Museum. more books like this by University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Museum, Leon Marfoe add to wishlist see all copies from $3.95!
19	The Spirit of Inquiry: The Graduate Library School at Chicago, 1921-51 more books like this by John Richardson add to wishlist see all copies from $26.72!
20	Splendid Encounters: The Thought and Conduct of Diplomacy more books like this by Dorothy V Jones add to wishlist see all copies from $2.89! first editions
21	First Generation: An Autobiography more books like this by Ernest Sirluck add to wishlist see all copies from $10.96! new only from $29.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Looking to Learn: Visual Pedagogy at the University of Chicago more books like this by Linda Seidel, Katherine Fischer Taylor add to wishlist "Looking to learn", an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, challenges the decontextualized approach to images and learning by setting ritual, functional and intentionally aesthetic objects side by side, together with inventories, technical viewing devices, photographs of ceremonial practices deploying the objects, ... see all copies from $6.51! new only from $9.39!
23	Journeys in Ministry: Nine Memoirs from Around the World more books like this by Patricia O. Killen (Editor), Loyola University of Chicago, Peter Gilmour (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95!
24	A History of the Renaissance Society: The First Seventy-Five Years more books like this by Joseph Scanlan add to wishlist see all copies from $22.00!
25 view cover	The Child and the Curriculum Including, the School and Society more books like this by John Dewey add to wishlist Abandon the notion of subject-matter as something fixed and ready-made in itself, outside the childs experience; cease thinking of the childs experience as also something hard and fast; see it as something fluent, embryonic, vital; and we realize that the child and the curriculum are simply two limits which define a single process. from The Child ... see all copies from $10.87! new only from $10.87!

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