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...What the world needs is ... more light to illuminate what is obscure, more light to enable us to reorganize our intellectual and social and political lives. No one is wise enough to tell the source from which illumination will come. . . Thus spoke Dr. Abraham Flexner last week, making formal announcement that Dr. Albert Einstein had accepted appointment with the (Bamberger-Fuld) Institute for Advanced Study (TIME, Sept. 5). Dr. Flexner is the Institute's director, is seeking with his $5,000,000 endowment to make it a post-postgraduate school where Ph.D.'s will be understudies...
...vain and thankless task" which those in control of Harvard College ought not to undertake. This is very interesting. One has heard before, for sometime, that Harvard has sold out to the spirit of the times and gone in for "professional objectives" rather than "cultural ones." Dr. Flexner said something like that, and Dr. A. J. Nock, in their late internationally read books. I have heard it intimated in Oxford and Cambridge (England) combination rooms, and by professors in German and Scandinavian universities. Some Harvard alumni--notably Mr. John Jay Chapman--Have cried aloud that it is true...
...will lecture on theoretical physics at the $5,000,000 Institute for Advanced Study, which Dr. Abraham Flexner is creating in New Jersey. Money providers were Mrs. Felix Fuld and her brother, Louis Bamberger, retired owner of Newark's great Bamberger Store which he sold to Manhattan's greater Macy...
...When Dr. Flexner sounded Dr. Einstein about a stipend for his part-year work, Dr. Einstein named a trifling sum. He will get, according to unofficial information on this delicate professorial topic, several thousand dollars for the five months. He will probably reside in quiet, academic Princeton...
...adjective is a concession to ebullient Americans), have received little attention or publicity from those not connected with Winthrop. It is with some surprise that one reads the list of speakers that have been the guests of the House during the year, Lowell, Frankfurter, Compton, Sir Herbert Ames, Williams, Flexner, Admiral Sims, Briggs, Edsall are some of the resounding names that form a garland for John Winthrop. It is quite the most imposing group that has been collected. Every Thursday there is a House Dinner at six after which there are occasional speakers, and twice a month the Long Table...