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Throwback Thursday: wunderkind

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 2:34pm February 02 2023

A hundred years ago, the Yale Alumni Weekly brought the news that Robert Maynard Hutchins ’21 was the new secretary of the university at the tender age of 23. Hutchins went on to get his law degree at Yale while keeping his day job, then served two years as dean of the Law School before becoming president of the University of Chicago at age 30. And how did your twenties go?

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