Word: flexner
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Writing in 1924, Abraham Flexner in his book Medical Education, commented on the experience of most American medical students as follows: "They were grouped in fixed classes, the personnel of which was practically unchanged, except for outright losses due to failure, from year to year; they followed in fixed order, day by day, the same subjects, for the same length of time, in the same year and at the same hour . . . and, at regular intervals, all alike, in the same rigid groups, performed precisely the same practical exercises, attended the same quizzes and submitted to the same monthly, semi-annual...
...envious legislators from other counties who refused to appropriate funds for it, later by the belief that the university was a seedbed of rebel sentiment in the Civil War. In 1907 Missouri's medical school was one of many singled out in a study by Education Critic Abraham Flexner as scandalously incompetent, and was cut back to a two-year course...
...thing, the constant use of the limited four-letter vocabulary tends to rob the words of what legitimate shock effect they used to have. "Powerful words should be reserved for powerful occasions," says Novelist Philip Toynbee. "Words like money can be devalued by inflation." Stuart B. Flexner, co-author of the authoritative Dictionary of American Slang, believes that this is already happening. "The next step is to find a new crop," he says, "but I don't know yet what these will...
...Carnegie Unit"-the 120 hours per year that U.S. high schools now accept as standard for each subject. The foundation went on to organize the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (120,000 current policy-holders), a pioneer among U.S. annuity plans. Most important, the foundation financed the famed 1910 Flexner report criticizing medical schools in the U.S. and Canada, which in turn unlocked the Rockefeller millions that revamped medical education...
Unleashing Talents. Taking its cue from Flexner, the Carnegie Corporation itself has long specialized in supporting the one inexpensive study that rouses others to give on a grand scale. Today this is partly by necessity. Carnegie is a powerhouse among U.S. foundations, which now total 12,000. But in market value of its assets ($286.6 million), it runs a poor fifth to the top four: Hartford and Duke (each with more than $400 million). Rockefeller ($615 million) and the colossal Ford Foundation ($2.5 billion). Last fiscal year alone, Ford earmarked $155.7 million for new grants, as against Carnegie...