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Frankly acknowledging the substantial volume of criticism directed in recent times at the Graduate School of Business Administration and its place in Harvard University, President Conant last night in Baker Library pointed to his own field of chemistry for a defense. To critics of the Flexner school who assert that a business faculty has no place in an educational institution devoted to the pursuit of liberal arts, Mr. Conant told Business School students: "We are dealing here with a profession and not an art Business is the oldest of the arts and the latest of the professions...
...Samuel Insull twice for having permitted it. The details of these charges are known for they had to be explained in order to extradite Brother Martin from Canada. One typical accusation: Washington Flexner had a private brokerage account through which he performed various trades for his business associate Martin Insull. In October 1931 the brokers objected to the use of Insull Utility Investments & Corporation Securities stock as collateral behind Martin Insull's transactions. Flexner went to Martin Insull, who had Middle West Utilities Co., of which he was president, give Flexner checks for $344,000 to buy the collateral...
...fields do not properly lie within the scope of a liberal arts curriculum. Obviously these are not the only courses at Harvard which violate the liberal ideal, and they were chosen largely because of their prominence and their popularity; others, such as Aerial Photography, give equal substance to Dr. Flexner's view that the liberal arts college is coming to be an ideal honored more in the breach than in the observance...
...penetrate this wall are pounced on by battalions of defenders in the blood and lymph. But there is one gap opening on a shortcut to General Headquarters (the brain). To the autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences at Cambridge. Mass, last week (see p. 50) Dr. Simon Flexner, director of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, reported that Institute researchers confirmed the widely accepted theory that this pathway is traveled by one of mankind's deadliest enemies-the virus of infantile paralysis...
...pathway, explained Dr. Flexner. is the one by which the sensation of smell reaches the brain. Exposed in the mucous membrane of the nose lie the hairlike end-processes of the olfactory nerve cells. Up these nerves, which are relatively isolated from the blood and lymph, the attacking virus passes direct to the brain's olfactory lobe, thence proceeds to invade more distant parts of the brain and spinal cord. The invaders, injuring motor nerve cells, produce muscular paralysis. The damage done, some of the virus returns the way it came, goes out from the nose...