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Abraham Flexner

American Educator. Johns Hopkins University. Harvard University and the University of Berlin.[4]

Known for the reform of medical and higher education in the United States and Canada.[1,1]

1952 - Published with the collaboration of Esther S. Baily Funds and Foundations: Their Policies Past and Present.[2]

1940 to 1959 - Director Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N. J.[2]

1930 to 1939 - Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.[2]

1928 - Delivered Rhodes Trust memorial lectures, Oxford, England.[2]

1925 to 1928 - Director, Division of Studies and Medical Education, General Education Board.[2] (Rockefeller Foundation)

1913 to 1925 - Assistant and Secretary, General Education Board.[2] (Rockefeller Foundation)

1912 - Frederick T. Gates of the Rockefeller Foundation asked Flexner (Carnegie Foundation), what would you do with $1million. As reported by Fosdick (RF. Search mind map) “The bluntness was characteristic of Mr Gates, but the question the million dollars was hardly in accord with his usual in-direct and cautious approach to the spending of money. Flexner’s reply, however, to the effect that any funds - a million dollars or otherwise - could most profitably be spent in developing the John Hopkins Medical School, struck a responsive chord in Gates who was already a close friend and devoted admirer of Dr William H. Welch [S&B 1870], the dean of the institution.[4] (Welch was President of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical research in 1901 and Trustee of the Carnegie Institution from 1906 and was brough to Johns Hopkins University by Daniel Coit Gilman [S&B 1852)[4])

1910 - Published Medical Education in the United States and Canada (New York: Carmegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching).[2]

1908 - Joined the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.[2]. Search mind map … Carnegie Foundation.

1908, published a critical assessment of the state of the American educational system, titled ‘The American College: A Criticism’.[2]

1907 to 1908 - Studied at the University of Berlin, Germany.[2]

Died 21 Sep 1959, from Not Known (Probably age). Age 92

[1] - FYI - Wiki - Abraham Flexner

[2] - Library of Congress - Abraham Flexner Papers - A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress.

[3] - Institute for Advanced Study

[4] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[5] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[6] - Find a Grave - Abraham Flexner