Chicago 1942-1944, 1939-1994
File
MS. Wind 8
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Papers relating to Edgar Wind's time as Professor at the Department of Art of the University of Chicago, 1942-1944, including:
- Folder 1: ‘Chicago 1942-44’: Letters from Richard McKeon to Edgar Wind, 1939 and 1931; letter of appointment as Professor, Feb 1942; short letters from Robert Hutchings (president, University of Chicago, Dec 1942; copies of correspondence between John U. Nef and William Benton (University of Chicago), and related memorandum by Edgar Wind, concerning Wind’s proposal to the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, for a series of monographs to be published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the University of Chicago under the title 'Encyclopaedic Studies'; copy of a letter to Edgar Wind to Robert Hutchins, Wind resigning his post as Professor of Art and stating his intention to return to the Warburg Institute in London, October 1944, with related letters to Wind from Franklin P. Johnson and Otto von Simson, Dec 1944; photographs of Wind's apartment in Chicago, 5138 Kenwood Avenue. Also includes notes by Margaret Wind about Edgar Wind's illness during his time in Chicago and about encyclopaediae, a letter by Margaret Wind to Tony 1990, accompanying a photocopy of an article by Israel Shenker, 'Britannica ends 200 year era', published in The Times, 1974, and a set of photocopies/ transcripts of the Nef - Benton - Wind correspondence about encyclopaedias. [I, 8, i; WIND 11]
- Folder 2: ‘Statements by Hutchins, courses, controversy’: Printed background material ('By-laws of the Board of Trustees, Articles of Incorporation and Statutes of the University', August 1939; offprint of article ‘The University of Chicago’, Fortune, December 1937; 'University of Chicago, Announcements. The College and the Divisions', 1942, 1943 and 1944; Robert M. Hutchings, 'The Organization and Purpose of the University, address given to faculty members', 20 July 1944, 'Memorandum Concerning the Field of Social Thought, Program of Studies', 1944/1945); proposals for the rearrangement of the curriculum with interdisciplinary studies; correspondence and enclosures (reports, memoranda, and related material) concerning the controversy over the administration of departments and organization of teaching at the University of Chicago, Dec 1942-Feb 1945, including a ‘bill of particulars’, June 1944, in support of inter-departmental studies. Also includes correspondence relating to Edgar Wind's resignation from his post as Professor of Art in October 1944. The main correspondents are: Edgar Wind, Richard P. McKeon, Dr Robert M. Hutchins, John U. Nef, Ronald Crane, Robert Redfield, Frank H. Knight, E. A. Duddy and James McKinley Rose, counsellor at law for Edgar Wind. [I, 8, ii; WIND 11]
- Folder 3: ‘Press reports, 1944’: Press cuttings from The Chicago Sun, The Chicago Daily News, The New York Times and unidentified newspapers about the reforms instigated at the University of Chicago by the president, Dr Robert Hutchins, 1944; obituary of Hutchins, 1977; review by Allan Bloom of William H. McNeill, 'Hutchins’ University', 1992, and Mary Ann Dzuback, 'Robert M. Hutchins', 1992, in The Times Literary Supplement, 7 February 1992, and review by Sheldon Rothblatt of the above works by McNeil and Dzuback and of Susanne Klingenstein, 'Jews in the American Academy 1900-1940', 1991, in the London Review of Books, 13 February 1992; and article by William H. Honan, ‘Columbia to Celebrate 75 Years of Great Books’, published in New York Times, 16 November 1994. [I, 8, iii; WIND 11]
For papers on Aesthetics see V, 1, ii.
Dates
- Creation: 1939-1994
Extent
1 box (3 folders)
Language of Materials
- English
- German
Shelfmark
MS. Wind 8
Repository Details
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specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk