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Exhibit 027

Henry S. Pritchett to Arthur Dean Bevan, 4 November 1909

Exhibit 027 ยท Correspondence

Henry S. Pritchett to Arthur Dean Bevan, 4 November 1909

The Carnegie Foundation's president writes to the chairman of the AMA Council on Medical Education, seven months before the report's publication: "In all this work of the examination of the medical schools we have been hand in glove with you and your committee." He adds: "When our report comes out, it is going to be ammunition in your hands."

Source
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Date
4 November 1909
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/rockefellermedic00browrich
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Known through E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men (1979), p. 151; wording checked against Brown. Archival locator from Brown's note 52 (p. 258): correspondence with AMA, Carnegie Foundation files.

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Finding MED-1.3
Reported The Carnegie Foundation and the AMA agreed to keep their collaboration on the Flexner Report out of public view.