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...Abraham Flexner, onetime secretary of the General Education Board, told his listeners, many of whom were college professors, that there was not an educational institution in the country deserving the name of a University. Said he: "They resemble the modern drug store in which the pharmacy has been pushed in the corner by soda fountains and sandwich counters. Academies and learned societies are becoming more numerous in the U. S., but they lack the amenities of the common rooms of the English Universities, or the German beer garden. It has been suggested that the best way to advance learning...
Seekers could, early this week (April 8), have found Dr. Welch seated with Herbert Hoover, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell and Director Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, on the stage of Memorial Continental Hall in Washington. He was fidgeting nervously, smiling sheepishly under a barrage of praise which was going out to scores of notables who sat peering at him from the audience, and to radio listeners all over the world. It was Dr. Welch's 80th birthday party. To uphold the ancient custom of birthday present-giving the committee in charge of the celebration...
...Welch Rabbits," a cartoon in a Yale classbook, depicted Dr. Welch as a magician. From a silk hat he was drawing rabbits, labeled with names of his students. Some of the rabbits' names: Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Simon Flexner, Franklin P. Mall, William Sydney Thayer, Lewellys Barker, Eugene Lindsay Opie, George Blumer, Walter Reed, James Carroll...
...dinner, although a large one, was of an informal nature. Short speeches in appreciation of the retired educator's work were given by Abraham Flexner '06; A. Lincoln Filene; H.W. Holmes '03, dean of the Graduate School of Education; F.W. Ballou '11, superintendent of schools in Washington; Joseph Lee '83; J.D. Greene '96; C.H. Grandgent '83; and L.O. Cummings...
...possible connection with the 1918 world influenza epidemic was neglected for the theory, best formulated by Simon Flexner and the late great Hideyo Noguchi, that a virus so fine that it seeped through the finest unglazed porcelain was the cause. Dr. Falk went back to the Rosenau indication. When influenza struck Chicago severely last winter, he and his assistants took cultured smears from every throat they could reach. They slept on their desks to avoid losing time...