Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In all its 700 years, Britain's venerable Cambridge University has been a man's institution. It gruffly consented 18 years ago to let women study there but refused to recognize their presence officially. Denied regular students' privileges, women finish their studies at Cambridge not with a...
Old John D. Rockefeller had little schooling, but no individual has influenced U. S. education more than he. Through his second largest philanthropy, the General Education Board, he angeled Progressive Education. Prime monument to his influence is Manhattan's Lincoln School, which for 22 years has done more than...
Lincoln School, a kindergarten-to-college private Progressive school, is operated by Columbia University's Teachers College. It was started in 1917 when Dr. Abraham Flexner, now director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and harvard's late, great Charles W. Eliot got G. E. B. to put...
Sorokin defends the institution of assistant professor as "a bridge for the most promising young scholars," and says. "I am glad that--President Conant decided not to abolish entirely the category of assistant professor."
"One soiled thumb could undo the work of 900 years, and a misplaced cough could be a disaster." So said J. Pierpont Morgan when, in 1924, his and his father's great Morgan Library in Manhattan was incorporated as a semi-public institution-its treasures available not to just...