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...Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, long ago assigned the infantile paralysis problem to himself. He announced that what he suspected is almost certainly true?the virus of the disease gets into the system through the mucous membranes of the nose and upper throat...
...sharp critique of overexpanded U. S. universities a year ago was Dr. Abraham Flexner's Universities: American, English, German (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930). Critic Flexner, a onetime Carnegie Foundation expert, onetime (1925-28) director of the division of studies and medical education of the Rockefeller General Education Board, specially denounced Columbia and the University of Chicago for their widely advertised home-study courses. Dr. Flexner's ideal college is a sober academe where only the wisest and most serious may study. Under his direction such a place will soon rise in New Jersey: the Institute for Advanced Study...
...dinner, which was formal despite its professed informality, were Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins, and five dozen other notables. Mr. Rockefeller, at ease among intimate friends, recalled what a young man (27) he was when Drs. Smith, Flexner, Welch and others organized the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Welch saluted Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Rockefeller, and other ladies present, with an old bachelor's old quip, forebore retelling his more jovial stories...
...Theobald Smith is 72. With Dr. Welch, Dr. Flexner, Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins and a very few more, he is one of those fortunates now alive who grew up with modern medicine. Amazing Louis Pasteur (1822-95) had scarcely proven that microbes cause disease, contentious Robert Koch (1843-1910) had scarcely demonstrated how to cultivate germs, when in 1884 Dr. Smith -who was then only 25, and the late Dr. Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914) who was then 34-proposed creating immunity against disease with products of the bacteria which caused the disease. With this idea they...
...Flexner's chief complaint is that the business schools of the country are trying to short-circuit experience and to raise business to the dignity of a profession. He suggested that Harvard's motto be changed to "Veritas et Ars Venditoria...