1910

David Edsall and Harvey Cushing poised to accept offers from Medical College of Washington University, at the brink of being Johns Hopkinsized, but, at last moment, Cushing accepts Harvard appointment and Edsall accepts chair of medicine (he had been professor of therapeutics & pharmacology) at University of Pennsylvania (Aub & Hapgood, 66-83). Faculty reform at University of Pennsylvania, to be spearheaded by Edsall, fell through in 1910 owing to faculty opposition, especially of surgery professor J. William White; Provost Charles Harrison and board member Weir Mitchell resign (93). Edsall resigned his professorship on September 1, 1911 though his “young Turk” colleagues Taylor, Richards, and Pearce remained (98-102).