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Sirs: In regard to the article in your Dec. 15 issue with reference to Dr. Flexner and his criticism of American colleges, universities and education and lack of culture, will say that such pedantry makes me mad clear through. Why in the name of progress don't they get a red-blooded go-getter to investigate the colleges and their systems and what they produce and not some European-leaning snob who should have no place in a land where success and not birth is the measure...
...Columbia's enrolment figures would enlighten those who wondered why Columbia did not produce "for example, a success ful football team." (Columbia College, whence the team came, had but 1,818 stu dents.) A man who has been wondering just what Columbia is producing is Dr. Abra ham Flexner, investigator since 1908 of U. S. and European universities and medi cal schools, expert (1908-12) to the Carnegie Foundation, member (1912, secretary 1917-25) of the Rockefeller General Election Board, director of the Institute of Advanced Study, built with $5,000,000 given by Louis Bamberger and his sister...
...Flexner also derides Rollins College for establishing a Professorship of Books. Such a course is part of the educational liberalism that the German educator is inclined to condemn. He has overlooked several aspects of such a chair which would make it really valuable, as President Holt points out in the accompanying press clipping...
...book just published, "Universities--American, English, German," by Abraham Flexner, than whom there is no mere distinguished educational authority in America, Rollins College is listed with Columbia, Chicago, Dartmouth, Michigan and Vassar and others as having established professorships beneath the dignity of an institution of higher learning...
...Flexner criticizes Rollins College for having a professor of books. The professorship is a novelty. Granted. But the idea of such a professorship is far from novel. In 1856 no less an immortal than Ralph Waldo Emerson, in an essay on "Books," said...