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1930

Publication by Oxford University Press of Abraham Flexner’s Universities: American, English, German, preceded by a month by announcement of establishment of the Institute for Advanced Studies, funded by five million dollars from the Newark dept-store Bamberger’s (Bonner 2, 233-35; Penfield, 216, 256-57). American obstetricians and gynecologists create the third medical specialty board (Stevens, 200ff.)