Word: institutionalization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When Manhattan's great Memorial Hospital for Cancer & Allied Diseases was founded in 1884, cancer was not only hopeless but unmentionable. Memorial Hospital was the first institution in the U. S. to devote itself solely to the study and treatment of cancer. In 1926 Edward S. Harkness donated $250...
To quote from President Butler's own report for 1926-27, "The scholar who in sincerity and knowledge criticizes or dissents from some well-established institution, idea or practice . . . is as much entitled to that dissent as his fellow who defends what this scholar condemns. This is one of the...
But now the situation is different. The ability of State Supreme Court Judge McGechan to prevent the English philosopher from teaching at the College of the City of New York demonstrated quite succinctly the ever-present threats to the cause of freedom in any public institution. From Manhattan the spotlight...
Sociologist Lovejoy's prime recommendation to the eight investigated communities : have schools give pupils more vocational guidance. Viewing with alarm "the appalling consequences of permitting practically one-half of our youths to believe that they can crowd themselves into a few occupations," he declared: "It is up to some...
Discouraged by faculty preachments about his attitude, Chanler was walking down the school street one day when the school's disciplinary master (known as "the Jeep") overtook him and quietly remarked: "Chanler, you have got just as many friends here as you ever had. You'd better come...