Article: Remembering the University of Chicago: Teachers, Scientists, and Scholars.

That most German of institutions, as British journalist Christopher Driver called the University of Chicago in the 1960s, celebrated its centenary in 1992, and these three books, in different ways, mark the anniversary. Driver perceptively referred to the nineteenth-century German roots of the University of Chicago not only because of its orientation to research and scholarship but also because of its serious-minded intellectualism. Of the several American universities established at the end of the nineteenth century by scholars who had returned from studies in Germany convinced that research should be at the heart of the academic enterprise, Chicago was the earliest success ...

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