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  • 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. [...]

  • von Hans Manfred Bock

    Im Jahre 1928 lancierte die Redaktion der „Deutsch-Französischen Rundschau“ eine Enquête, in der bekannte und einschlägig ausgewiesene Wissenschaftler und Schriftsteller dazu befragt wurden, wie sich aus ihrer Sicht die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen praktisch verbessern ließen. Die Initiative ging von den Berliner Gründern der Deutsch-Französischen Gesellschaft (DFG) aus, die Ende 1927 ins Leben gerufen wurde.[...]