Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Education: Mussolini v. Sousa
A sharp critique of overexpanded U. S. universities a year ago was Dr. Abraham Flexner's Universities: American, English, German (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930). Critic Flexner, a onetime Carnegie Foundation expert, onetime (1925-28) director of the division of studies and medical education of the Rockefeller General Education Board, specially denounced Columbia and the University of Chicago for their widely advertised home-study courses. Dr. Flexner's ideal college is a sober academe where only the wisest and most serious may study. Under his direction such a place will soon rise in New Jersey: the Institute for...
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