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ate schools; still oEhers might con£ine themselves to
college work, on a mre modest basis than is feasible as
long as college and university &ins are mingled. Righer
education in the United States needs the new stimulus,
the new ideal, which a genuine university would supply, 25
Several of his colleegues agreed with his proposel; h. George-
E, Vincent, a General Education Board Trustee and Pxesident of the
Rockefeller Foundatfon, wrote him:
This is an admirable analysis, f should like to talk with
you rbout the plan. I am not wholly convinced that the
undergraduate department of the University of Chicago might
not be gradually discontinued. It is the only fnstitutton
young enough to permit such a rajor operation. A number of
interesting possibilities occur to me ich it would he in-
teresting fer me to talk to you about, el!
The conversation had a result; the Board ~ppropriated sane $2 million
to help the University of Chicago to divest itself from the first tuo
undergraduate years, and sent i ts Co-Secretary, Mr. Trevor knett, an
expert in university finance, to help Chfcago's new, young, and pra+
fsing President Ernest Burton, But Burton died in 1925, and w ithhim
died the hope of doing anything until Robert Hutchins becaw Presfdent
in 1929.
&anwhile Flexner worked cn his m to bring about the suggested
change in the Rbpkfna. The Goodnow Plan, previously mentloned