Gerard N. Burrow
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092073
- eISBN:
- 9780300132885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092073.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This chapter describes how two items of business during an otherwise uneventful Yale Corporation meeting on March 21, 1910 shaped the future success of the medical school. “The Secretary read the ...
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This chapter describes how two items of business during an otherwise uneventful Yale Corporation meeting on March 21, 1910 shaped the future success of the medical school. “The Secretary read the confidential report prepared by Dr. Abraham Flexner on the condition of Yale Medical School,” and later in the meeting “the President spoke of possible changes in the scope of Professor Smith's work in the medical school, but no formal action was taken.” Flexner's report had been prompted by growing discontent with medical education amid a proliferation of proprietary schools across the country. The Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association approached Henry Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching about conducting a study of medical education in the United States and Canada.Less
This chapter describes how two items of business during an otherwise uneventful Yale Corporation meeting on March 21, 1910 shaped the future success of the medical school. “The Secretary read the confidential report prepared by Dr. Abraham Flexner on the condition of Yale Medical School,” and later in the meeting “the President spoke of possible changes in the scope of Professor Smith's work in the medical school, but no formal action was taken.” Flexner's report had been prompted by growing discontent with medical education amid a proliferation of proprietary schools across the country. The Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association approached Henry Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching about conducting a study of medical education in the United States and Canada.
Warren Goldstein
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300102215
- eISBN:
- 9780300135053
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300102215.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter focuses on the time when Coffin returned to his mother and to Yale as a World War II veteran. Uninterested in an extended adolescence or country club experience, veterans tended to be ...
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This chapter focuses on the time when Coffin returned to his mother and to Yale as a World War II veteran. Uninterested in an extended adolescence or country club experience, veterans tended to be more instrumental about their education, more in a hurry to get on with their lives. Coffin bypassed the admissions office and applied for advanced standing directly to the college dean. Between the influence of his mother's friend, Professor of French Henri Peyre, the fact that Uncle Henry sat on the Yale Corporation, and Coffin's Russian studies, he went to summer school and entered as a junior in the fall of 1947. He lived in his mother's house and concentrated mostly on schoolwork. Outside the classroom, he headed the Yale chapter of the liberal American Veterans Committee and sang in the Yale Glee Club.Less
This chapter focuses on the time when Coffin returned to his mother and to Yale as a World War II veteran. Uninterested in an extended adolescence or country club experience, veterans tended to be more instrumental about their education, more in a hurry to get on with their lives. Coffin bypassed the admissions office and applied for advanced standing directly to the college dean. Between the influence of his mother's friend, Professor of French Henri Peyre, the fact that Uncle Henry sat on the Yale Corporation, and Coffin's Russian studies, he went to summer school and entered as a junior in the fall of 1947. He lived in his mother's house and concentrated mostly on schoolwork. Outside the classroom, he headed the Yale chapter of the liberal American Veterans Committee and sang in the Yale Glee Club.
