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...take interesting, out-of-the-ordinary ailments rather than everyday broken legs or appendectomies. Last year 3,000 students applied for admission. Because Duke hopes to distinguish itself by selecting its men carefully, only 70 were admitted. A principle adopted by the medical school's able Dean Wilbur Cornell Davison???Princeton man, Oxford Rhodes scholar, Johns Hopkins professor?is to speed up the medical course, get his men through in two or three years by means of a four-quarter plan, give them as much hospital work as possible. A pediatrist, he has helped plan the hospital, introduced many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In a Carolina Forest | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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