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...Abraham Flexner, author of "Universities: American, English, and German," in which he criticized American universities and Harvard in particular for the teaching of "rubbish" in their business courses, was a visitor at the Harvard Business School yesterday. As far as could be learned he has not modified his views and will probably restate them in a speech to be given at the Old South Forum on Sunday afternoon...
...many months now the kermost leaders in education have been ringing the changes on the danger to sound thinking involved in the excessive specialization of college departments. The burden of the argument has been similar, whether it came from Professor Dewey, Dr. Flexner, or President Hutchins at Chicago. The universities themselves have recognized the evil, but with few exceptions, have not taken the action which that recognition implied to be necessary...
...Philadelphia Dr. Simon Flexner got him a laboratory job at the University. The late Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell gave him patronage. He worked hard, brilliantly, but episodically, and got results. He pushed himself into this work and that, pushed himself to Germany and European elsewheres, gloated in honors: "In Copenhagen they gave me the Royal Medal. If I add what I got from Spain, I have two foreign decorations. It is said that the Swedish Crown intends to decorate me. . . . I was given audience by two royalties. . . ." He often referred to himself with naive objectiveness, as "funny Noguchi...
...intensive study of human problems, we heartily subscribe to Dr. Hutchins' theories. The serious doubt remains, however, of whether mass education through extension institutes is, in the end, the best and most effective means of disseminating the results of investigations into human problems. It was our opinion that Dr. Flexner's vigorous book had once and for all pointed out the utter ridiculousness of mass production in higher education, and had amply shown, in his discussion of Columbia, the inconsistency between extension institutes and the ideals of education...
These institutions are at present junior colleges supported by local taxation and several normal colleges supported by the State. But the communities in which they are located wish to raise their title to regional universities and provide at least four-year courses. Dr. Flexner, who does not allow us a single university of pure type in the United States, would be horrified if he could know what is proposed, and President Butler, who permits us only seven universities besides his own (and probably including the University of California), supports President Sproul's appeal for concentration upon an institution of highest...