Robert Maynard Hutchins, American philosopher and academic (died 1977)

Robert Maynard Hutchins

American philosopher (1899–1977)

Robert Maynard Hutchins was an American educational philosopher. He was the 5th president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929). His first wife was the novelist Maude Hutchins. Although his father and…