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...following article is composed of extracts from a treatise on graduate schools written recently by Abraham Flexner, famous educational authority and noted critic of American universities. In this treatise he particularly attacks the Harvard Business School...
Last year, Dr. Abraham Flexner, philosophical critic of educational systems, made a thorough survey of American, English, and German Universities, concentrating in large measure on the undergraduate college. In the present Atlantic Monthly he turns his attention specifically to the graduate schools of American Universities and with his usual trenchant insight finds them not even "within hailing distance of the university standard". For his criterion of the university Dr. Flexner turns back to the Johns Hopkins graduate school founded in 1876 by Daniel Coit Gilman. President Gilman's educational principles were few but sound. A graduate school should place...
...upon the necessities of life, and hence upon the poor man, without regard to ability to pay. Mockingly they declared that the only thing exempt would be admission to a bread line. Some hotheads even denied the necessity of balancing the Budget by taxation at all. To each & every critic of the sales tax, secretly afraid of losing his political skin in the next election, acting Chairman Crisp calmly retorted: "Where else can you raise the necessary money...
...Republican Elephant. No other U. S. cartoonist has ever equaled his power, the strength of his line. Out of fashion for ten years before he died, he accepted the post of U. S. consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador from President Roosevelt, died at his post of yellow fever. Last week Critic Henry McBride had this to say of his exhibition...
...less than last year's, was made public. Fifteen of the winners will visit the U. S. from Latin America. Among U. S. names: Authors Lewis Mumford, Evelyn Scott, Louis Adamic. Caroline Gordon Tate; Dancer Martha Graham; Painters Andrew Michael Dasburg. Ernest Fiene, Peter Blume; Sculptor Antonio Salamme; Critic Isaac Goldberg; Composer George Antheil; Moscow Correspondent William Henry Chamberlain of the Christian Science Monitor...