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Exhibit 032

Wallace Buttrick to Harry Pratt Judson, 26 December 1914

Exhibit 032 ยท Correspondence

Wallace Buttrick to Harry Pratt Judson, 26 December 1914

The GEB's chief executive writes to the president of the University of Chicago: "We have never asked any institution to adopt the plan." He attributes the Johns Hopkins proposal to William H. Welch.

Source
General Education Board
Date
26 December 1914
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. 173; wording checked against Brown. Archival locator from Brown's note 117 (p. 262): GEB files, Rockefeller Foundation Archives.

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Finding MED-1.6
Reported The General Education Board enforced its plan through contracts that required a school to return its endowment if it departed from the plan, and later through schools' need for further grants.