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  • von Maximilian Buschmann

    Am 9. Juli 1909 verbreitete sich eine Nachricht aus dem berüchtigten Londoner Frauengefängnis Holloway weit über die britischen Inseln hinaus. Nach 91 Stunden im Hungerstreik wurde Marion Wallace Dunlop, die Anerkennung als politische Gefangene einforderte, vorzeitig entlassen. Ihre einmonatige Haftstrafe wegen unerlaubten Plakatierens endete bereits nach fünf Tagen. In Votes for Women, der Wochenzeitung der militantesten Organisation der britischen Frauenbewegung, Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), hieß es: „At last the Authorities had to give way. [...]

  • von Charles McClelland

    The “Flexner Report” (originally published in 1910) recently passed its hundredth anniversary. It was the culmination of a study commissioned by the new Carnegie Foundation and carried out by a German-American educational reformer (and former student at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Berlin Universities), Abraham Flexner. Not only did it ring the death knell of apprentice-like, unscientific and private medical education in the USA; Flexner’s fame led him into a position with the Rockefeller Foundation to channel funding into the reforms he advocated and ultimately to found the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, thanking German-speaking scholars who inspired him – such as Einstein – by recruiting them and saving them from Nazi persecution. His report may be regarded partly as a cultural manifesto, since it proposed to revolutionize higher education and the ancient “art” of healing. It still makes compelling reading and retains a number of unique features. [...]