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This Week In WUSTL History
March 30, 1917
A board meeting was held in which the members discussed closing the Smith Academy and the Manual Training School and opening the School of Commerce and Finance (later to be named the John M. Olin School of Business).
April 1909
Abraham Flexner made his first visit to the Washington University medical school. Flexner, a Johns Hopkins University graduate who had written a critique of higher education, The American College, was hired by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to undertake a survey of U.S. and Canadian medical schools. Flexner's report on Washington University's medical school led to its complete reorganization.
April 1, 1869
Beta Theta Pi became the first fraternity to have a chapter at the University.
This feature will be included in each 2003-04 issue of the Record in observance of Washington University's 150th anniversary.
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