Eastward, Ho!

No matter what his background or temperament, any man who succeeded Robert Hutchins as head of the University of Chicago was bound to run into special problems. Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton has been no exception. In just under six years he has gone far in returning the college to a normal four-year curriculum, favored the revival of football, thrown himself into such necessary activities as clearing the slums around the campus. As a result, many facultymen, whether they agreed with Hutchins or not, have missed the high excitement of his regime, and for one reason or another, some of Chicago's top scholars have drifted away.

In 1951 Geochemist Harrison Brown left for Caltech. Later, Economist Jacob Marschak went to Yale; Dean John Jeuck of the business school settled for a professorship at the Harvard business school. Chemist Willard Libby joined the AEC, and Theologian Amos Wilder is now on the faculty of Harvard's revived Divinity School. Last week Chicago lost one of the biggest names of all: Social Scientist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman, 47, whose colleagues have long sensed his growing frustration over a Chicago that seems no longer quite the daring place it once was. In 1958 Harvardman ('31) Riesman will return to his alma mater as its first Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, a chair that was set up to enliven the undergraduate intellectual fare by giving an especially distinguished scholar a "roving commission" to explore and teach as freely as he wants.

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