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discrimination was to be practiced.
The amndmnt of the draft seems to have mitrked the end of
conferences for the tfm being; the donors evidently departed for
Arizona. Dr. Plemer wrote Mr. Mztass next day in a confident mood:
1 have just la id my hands on a memorandm pre~ared seven
yeers ago and ccntzining the coment of President Eeorge
~.7 Vincent of the Ruckef el ler Foundation, who like other
associates of the RockefeL ler boards thoroughly approved
of the idee. You will notice that on page 9 I spoke of
ne~cing $50 million, but you will zlso note tbt 1 included
the faculty of medicine. The suns we are nw speaking
of will therefore Be ample without mdicine.
f shall try to get together fox you in the next few days
a few things which, 3 believe, you rill be interested in
readingm7
According to his recollectian Flexner heard from t& donors
but once during their absence of two months or more; he answered a
picture postcah f r m Mr. Bamberger on the 8th March in an obvious
effort to keep the pat boiling:
Thank you for thc cbrming card which you sent me, and for
your good wish..,
I am working industriously in the hope of finfshing my
book on univessitfes before the spring. kmhile,'~
wife and I and swle friends whom we invited to share the
box with us greatly enjoyed the concerts for which we are
indebted to Mrs. Puld,
Under separate cover I am wiling you and Mrs. Fuld a
book dealing with higher education, in which ou will
find tpp. 198-2091 a paper by Dean LGordon JL f king of
the University of Chicago, which makes almost the same
proposal vhich you and Mrs. Fuld are considering at my
suggestion. 8
Having supported his proposal by reference to so eminent an
authority, Plexner perforce rested his case until the donors returned.
heanwhile, he completed Universities, vriting his good friend President