Word: flexner
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...YOUNG HAMILTON, A BIOGRAPHY by James Thomas Flexner Little, Brown; 497pages...
...there were 160 medical schools with 28,142 students and 5,747 graduates annually. Abraham Flexner, an educator, not a physician, was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to study the situation. He recommended the closing or reorganization of all substandard proprietary schools. By 1930 there were only 76 schools with a total of 21,597 students and 4,565 graduates annually. Little significant expansion of medical schools occurred for the next 20 years, but the "Flexner revolution" helped make the U.S. the world leader in biomedical science and medical education. From 1901 through...
...FACES OF LIBERTY by James Thomas Flexner and Linda Bantel Samter. 310 pages. Clarkson Potter. $15.95. This book is a not entirely attractive menage a trois involving an art show (put between hard covers), the Dictionary of National Biography and a PEOPLE magazine approach to Revolutionary history. George Washington Biographer Thomas Flexner opens the show with some pithy talk about the emerging American man and ends by discussing early American painters, including notes on how John Singleton Copley saved money on costumes for his female portraits by putting a number of Yankee ladies into the same pose and dress, both...
...Equal Rights Amendment and politics. But the chapter is too sketchy to give any real feeling for the events between 1920 and 1975. Anyone reading the book is aware of these changes and for a modern audience the concluding chapter oversimplifies and repeats what is provided in the preface. Flexner's aim is to provide history rather than record modern developments. Nevertheless, it may be valuable to reread the concluding chapter fifteen years from now to see if our perspectives have changed...
...balanced tone of Flexner's book is evident in the last sentence of her 1975 preface, another seemingly prophetic statement...