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Image 1 of Page View sr Se AB- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 3 of Page View C THE GIFT OF 2 LESSING J ROSENWALD TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 6 of Page View UNIVERSITIES AMERICAN ENGLISH GERMAN BY ABRAHAM FLEXNER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO 1930- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 7 of Page View CoPYRIGHT 1930 By Oxrorp University PRrEss New York Inc Printed in the United States of America- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 8 of Page View DR J A FLEXNER ANNE CRAWFORD FLEXNER AND MY ELDEST BROTHER a a 4 Q wn Zz â 3 6a EE 2B Ee  F 2 S DS fo o w â…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 9 of Page View- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 10 of Page View CONTENTS PREFACE Part I Tue IDEA OF A MODERN UNIVERSITY Part II American UNIVERSITIES Part III EncrLisg UNIVERSITIES Part IV GerMAN UNIVERSITIES- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 12 of Page View PREFACE HIS volume is an expansion of three lectures on Universities given at Oxford in May 1928 on the invitation of the Rhodes Trust The invitation stipu lates that the lecturer reside…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 13 of Page View Css A PREFACE cussion a few fundamental questions respecting the function of the university in modern life The reader will observe that my discussion of exist ing universities is unsymmetrical I have…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 14 of Page View PREFACE tunate enough to have been enabled in one way or another to keep in almost constant contact with uni versity life Quite obviously a book of this kind is not original…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 15 of Page View- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 16 of Page View PART 1- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 18 of Page View THE IDEA OF A MODERN UNIVERSITY I EVENTYFIVE years ago an eminent Oxonian Cardinal Newman published a book entitled The Idea of a University 1 have adopted in a modi fied form…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 19 of Page View THE IDEA OF these forces our abilities may for the moment seem Ho feeble and ineffectual But the existence of universi bel ties implies there is something perhaps much in the i…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 20 of Page View ul aenp0 A MODERN UNIVERSITY from the Oxford of the eighteenth century Althoffâs Berlin is not Wilhelm von Humboldtâs though they are separated by hardly a hundred years very dif ferent indeed…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 21 of Page View THE 1DEA OF habit In response to the criticism that universities lag instances in plenty canâand will âbe given by way of showing that universities are up to date or even ahead…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 22 of Page View Loan A MODERN UNIVERSITY portant concerns But I wish to make it plain at the outset that the university is only one of many educa tional enterprises It has in the general…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 23 of Page View THE IDEA OF too Paulsen was not the less a great university profes sor though he was not himself a great original thinker but rather a broad and profound scholar of sound…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 24 of Page View A MODERN UNIVERSITY which universities are doing least the realm which is most difficult and dangerous to approach the realm which is for these reasons perhaps the most important to master Democracy…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 25 of Page View THE IDEA OF importance from agriculture to industry huge cities had grown up enormous discrepancies of wealth had been created But the documentary basis of govern ment and society remains essentially the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 26 of Page View A MODERN UNIVERSITY from administrative burdens from secondary in struction from distracting tasks undertaken to piece out a livelihood But though individuals differ in their requirements no university in any country has…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 27 of Page View THE IDEA OF oil and American lynchings be for the present mainly left to journalists travellers and politicians Do they become proper subjects of academic interest only when they approach the postmortem…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 28 of Page View A MODERN UNIVERSITY in this progress but we must never accord more than a limited amount of confidence to the forms in which it is successively vestedâ The task then of finding…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 29 of Page View THE IDEA OF good and bad racial mixtures nationalistic and in ternationalistic strivings business interests physical forces of incredible power for good or ill emancipated workers and peasants restless Orientals noisy cities…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 30 of Page View A MODERN UNIVERSITY pathetic onlooker is fearful lest the frail theoretic or scientific structure is being subjected to a practical strain that it is not competent to bear To be sure the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 31 of Page View THE IDEA OF but this is different from running a city govern those ment or a political party involving as such responsi  bilities do compromises of principle that are fatal to…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 32 of Page View Lea A MODERN UNIVERSITY those words the university professor spoke â the pro fessor of surgery of medicine of law of economics of all subjects whatsoever Industry has found ways of utilizing…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 33 of Page View THE IDEA OF scientists now know themselves to be It was but re Jems cently that we believed that Newton had arrived at rockbottom It is a disquieting change from that complacent…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
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Image 34 of Page View 3 tt âOo A MODERN UNIVERSITY lems are created Life is lengthened Thereupon we are confronted by a new crop of diseases almost neg ligible as long as the infancy death rate…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 35 of Page View THE TDEA OF making things But more and more the worker needs coworkers and facilities such as the individual is not likely to possess he needs also soil in which to grow…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 36 of Page View lig Uiv tN A MODERN UNIVERSITY like this has happened to many perhaps to most of the enthusiastic clearheaded forwardlooking per haps too exclusively forwardlooking and highly spe cialized young votaries of…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 37 of Page View THE IDEA OF fully in stimulating selfconsciousness in India in Egypt in China and among the American Negroes oy he finds himself one of the causes of an exacerbation oy of nationalism…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 38 of Page View A MODERN UNIVERSITY and modern art literature music and history will inevitably revise notions formed on the basis of the defective data which have hitherto controlled our thinking Intensive study of phenomena…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 39 of Page View THE IDEA OF however vainly to see things in the large as new ma terial is accumulated And this process should go on in the university more effectively than anywhere else just…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
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Image 40 of Page View A MODERN UNIVERSITY tremely critical of every claimant Now men â es pecially mediocre men âdo not always distinguish the serious from the trivial the significant from the insignificant A university seeking…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, Abraham
- Date: 1930
About this Item
Title
- Universities, American, English, German,
Names
- Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New York [etc.] Oxford University Press, 1930.
Headings
- - Universities and colleges--United States
- - Universities and colleges--Great Britain
- - Universities and colleges--Germany
Notes
- - "This volume is an expansion of three lectures on 'Universities' given at Oxford in May 1928 on the invitation of the Rhodes trust."--Pref.
Medium
- ix, 381 p. illus., diagr. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- LA183 .F6
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 30032829
OCLC Number
- 175572
Online Format
- online text
- image