Merry Christmas

Dark-haired, pretty Maude Phelps Hutchins, a professional artist and wife of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, likes to draw psychological studies of nude female figures, which she calls "dialectic" drawings. Last fall, she made a drawing of her eleven-year-old daughter, Frances ("Franja"), a lively little girl who wears her black hair in bangs and braids. To 1,000 fellow faculty members, students and friends last December went a card inscribed on the back: "Merry Christmas from the Hutchinses." On the front was the drawing of the Hutchinses' young daughter holding two candles (see cut).

Last week the University students' annual news review, Echo, with undergraduate temerity published the drawing, printed a rumor that juvenile Franja had been so embarrassed by her parents' Christmas card that she had persuaded her father--a critic of progressive education --to send her off to join a friend in progressive Jokake School in Arizona.

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