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...recently published book, "Universities: American, English, and German", Dr. Abraham Flexner attacks, among other things, the Harvard Business School. It tries to "short circuit experience", he charges...
...course does not in any way mean that the Business School has rached the millenium; on the contrary it is still in the experimental stage, and there is no doubt much room for improvement. Despite its faults, however, the Business School is based on a sound principle, and Dr. Flexner's charges fall to the ground before serious examination...
...Abraham Flexner, director of the Institute of Advance Study in Newark, N. J., in a new book just published, criticizes American universities for teaching "rubbish", and charges that the Harvard School of Business Administration is undertaking to "short circuit" experience, according to an announcement made yesterday in New York City...
...Flexner, who was awarded a Master of Arts degree at Harvard in 1906 after spending a year in the Graduate Schools, declares that a school of business can never make business a profession in the sense that law and medicine are professions. He says that the Business School is Harvard's greatest offense. The Harvard motto "Veritas", he declares, may be some day changed to "Veritas et Ars Venditoria...
...book is entitled "Universities--American, English, and German." It attacks not only Harvard but Columbia and the University of Chicago for trying to sell education at a profit. Flexner holds that English universities are seats of higher learning incomparably better than anything America has to offer...