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Recurrently many a scholar looks back wistfully at the early days of Johns Hopkins University. It was housed in some plain Baltimore buildings which people thought resembled a piano factory. But its President Daniel Coit Gilman sloganed: "Men, not bricks and mortar." In the early 1880's Abraham Flexner was a student there, while Dr. Richard Theodore Ely was busy founding its chair of economic science. Largely out of Dr. Flexner's enthusiasm for the Johns Hopkins method came the Institute for Advanced Study he is building in Princeton (TIME, March 27et ante...
Harvard men prominent in other fields of endeavor who wrote are: Gamaliel Bradford '86, Van Wyck Brooks '08, W. R. Castle '00, Simon Flexner '06, W. S. Gifford '05, Walter Hampden '00, Charles Evans Hughes LL.D. '10, Walter Lippmann '10, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Benton Mackaye '00, Andrew W. Mellon hon. '26, Ogden L. Mills '05, D. S. Muzzey '93, General Pershing LL.D. '20, William Lyon Phelps A.M. '91, Owen D. Young LL.D...
...these. If, however, there is to be any major and fundamental alteration in the University, it will be, so far as can be told now, along the lines of those changes which the President of Chicago University has effected, and the neglect of which so aroused Flexner and his colleagues. While Harvard has been slowly moving away from the old arrangement of rigid, over-specialized, and generally unsatisfactory examinations, it has not yet completely escaped the toils of this ubiquitous abuse; one of the most weighty problems which the new President will have to solve is that of the method...
...first & foremost U. S. woman doctor is Florence Rena Sabin. Unimportant that she was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins Medical School (1900), first to teach there, first to become a full member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Unimportant the honors: Dr. Simon Flexner calling her the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time; the National Academy of Sciences making her its first woman member; Pictorial Review giving her $5,000 for "achievement." Her importance lies with her studies in anatomy and pathology. She has made an atlas...
...Institute for Advanced Study (in Princeton, N. J. but no part of the University) under famed educator Dr. Abraham Flexner is expecting Dr. Einstein to occupy its chair of Mathematics, beginning next October. Last week the Institute opined that unworldly Dr. Einstein doubtless believed the Madrid appointment purely honorary...