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...accounts, singularly failed. But the chief criticism of the school lies not so much in succumbing to this universal weakness as in the application of the name "Art" to a school strictly vocational in method and purpose. Yale has added more weight to the charges of Dr. Flexner that the chief worship of American colleges is not a cultural education but the dollar...
Piedmont is not just a curious antique. Professor Phillips has refused to be weaned away from "the land of the hicks" and believes heartily in the college's accomplishment. That Piedmont does not come within gunshot of Dr. Flexner's ideal of a university really makes no difference. Georgia farmers don't ask that their doctor or lawyer be a scholar. Without pretending to reach the intellectual level of a great university, Piedmont gives a sound general education, and one surely richer in human values than many more sophisticated colleges can give...
...Simon Flexner believes "we have a perfect right to believe that with our pres-ent knowledge of the manner in which the microbes of the disease behave, the aim of immunization will be accomplished...
...Manhattan Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute, who, 68, is just twice as old as Dr. Rhoads, demonstrated how stanch a friend he is to every member of his staff. They had worked together for two years on the in fantile paralysis problem, and Dr. Flexner could vouch for the validity of the explanation which Dr. Rhoads last week sent to Governor Beverley: "Regret very much that fantastic and playful composition written entirely for my own diversion and intended as parody on supposed attitude of some American minds in Porto Rico should have become public document and taken...
Still reeling from a bludgeoning at the hands of Dr. Flexner, the chimerical farrago which for journalistic purposes is the "American University" has now been assaulted with other weapons. In the first number of "The American Scholar," Dr. John Erskine criticizes Universities in a way which strikes much nearer home for Harvard at least then did Dr. Flexner's attacks...