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...purely social significance is generally recognized. But here too it must be realized that Yale, contrary to the practice of many of her contemporaries, at least provides the outline of a liberal education that does not sink to the fantastic absurdities of salesmanship and, to borrow from Flexner, ad hoc courses. Yale standards are such that the feels content if she can turn out thoroughly sound and worthwhile members of American society. She must provide for men whose intellectual diet has been a preaching of conformity, hard, clean playing on athletic fields, and good citizenship, from earliest boarding-school days...
...criticism from opponents of the pragmatic curriculum (courses in foremanship, machine design, journalism, et al.) which Columbia has widely publicized. The theory upon which New College is based-that education is practical training for useful pursuits-was violently anathematized a year ago, and again last month, by Dr. Abraham Flexner (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930; Dec. 14). From another educator last week came similar but more polite strictures in The Theory of Education in the U. S., by Albert Jay Nock (Harcourt, Brace: $2). But Dr. Nock, unlike Dr. Flexner, is a cordial admirer of President Butler, a graduate...
...Minister to Belgium Brand Whitlock. Though he holds M.A. and LL.D. (Hon.) degrees from St. Stephen's and a Ph.D. from Leipzig, Dr. Nock dislikes being called "Doctor." Believing U. S. institutions too generous with doctorates, he calls his contemporaries (from the lecture platform) Mister Butler and Mister Flexner. He has, however, a Ph.D. son, English teacher at the University of Leipzig, who permits himself to be called Dr. Samuel Nock. Son Francis teaches German at New York University...
...Abraham Flexner in his challenging book on "University American, English and German" says that "colleges do not know what they wish: "Do they wish brains? Do they wish "industry? Do they wish scholarship? "Do they wish character, or do they "wish 'qualities that fit for leadership'? They swing blindly and helplessly from one to another." But if he reads the report of President Aydelotte covering ten years at Swarthmore College, he will find at least one American college that knows what it wishes to do. The answer is very like the one which President Lowell has made for the American...
...Flexner put Dr. Park's statement aside as merely representing an opinion. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., State commissioner of health, sensing a controversy, protected himself thus: "In the absence of any better known method of combating infantile paralysis, the New York State Department of Health will continue to recommend the use of human serum unless its usefulness should be completely disproved...