High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Maynard Hutchins (also Maynard Hutchins) (January 17, 1899 ? May 17, 1977), was an educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (1927-1929), and a president of the University of Chicago (1929?1945) and its chancellor (1945?1951). He was the husband of novelist Maude Hutchins. Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism. After completing two years (1915-1917) at Oberlin College, a small liberal arts college in Ohio, Hutchins served in the United States Army's ambulance services in the Italian theatre during World War I. After returning from the war, Hutchins went to Yale University (B.A. 1921). After spending a year teaching high school History and English in Lake Placid, New York, he enrolled in Yale Law School (L.L.B 1925).