Tyler to Judd

Tall, goateed, strong-voiced Charles Hubbard Judd celebrated his 65th birthday this week, will retire as head of University of Chicago's education department in June. To educators, this is roughly equivalent to what the retirement of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (whom Dr. Judd resembles in physical demeanor) would mean to jurists. Since Psychologist Judd, at 36, went to University of Chicago from Yale, where he was director of the psychological laboratory, he has become perhaps the first U. S. educational statesman.

To fill Charles Judd's shoes posed a pretty problem for University of Chicago's unorthodox young president, Robert Maynard Hutchins. who has been busy the past year attacking progressive education. Last week, still incorrigibly unorthodox. Bob Hutchins gave the job to the fair-haired boy of progressive educators, Ralph Winfred Tyler, 35.

Ralph Tyler, who smokes cigars incessantly and races trains in his automobile, is a professor of education and crack test-man at Ohio State University. But his biggest job is director of evaluation for the "30 schools experiment" of the Progressive Education Association. He is testing graduates of 30 progressive high schools, admitted to college without examination, to show how good a high school can be when it doesn't have to prepare students for college-entrance requirements. What classical-minded Robert Hutchins had to take to get Ralph Tyler was the entire P. E. A. evaluation staff, which moves its headquarters to the University of Chicago with him.

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