Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

medical school. Such a school, he said, should be a graduate school
in a strong university, administered by the trustees of the whole
institution. St mst offer opportunities for training in the adical
sciences. It mst moreover om or control and operate a good hospital
where %ts clinical sttiff could devote their full time to teaching at
the bedside, to the care of patients, and to research. Newark was too
close to New York with its several great nedfcal schools to offer
effective competition for staff or students, It pc~cessed neither a
university nor an available hospitsl. If these failings were not
enough to dispose of the idea, Flexner said his experience had con-
vinced him that mn and women of the Jewish faith or origin were not
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being discriminated against, and that none but the highest pxofeaslonal
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standards should ever be applied in selecting the staff end students in
any institurfon of learning, These was no ground for discriminatfon by
other criteria, he maintained.
His claim to knowledge was well-founded. He had written the
famous Bulletin No. 4 of the Carnegie Foundation for the Adv~ncement of
Teaching which appeased fn 1910 a d set forth his fitndings after fnves-
tigation of every medical achool in the United States and Canada. Be
had reported ~5th equal care on medical education in the countries of
mana ed
Western Europe. Still later, he had/e vagf sum of Rockefeller m y
devoted to improve trredical educatbn fn this country, end had dfscharged
his responsibilities uith ahrewd dfstfnction, and substantial effect.
But Dr. Flexner was not one to leave a vacuum. Confronting
him were two solid professfonal tnen representing clients uith, he was
given to understand, a m thirty millton dollars to invest in a socially