Reminiscences of Wilburt Cornell Davison : oral history, 1963.

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Reminiscences of Wilburt Cornell Davison : oral history, 1963.

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Family background, childhood, education; Princeton, 1909-1913, Rhodes scholar, Oxford, 1913; World War I: volunteer in France and Yugoslavia, 1914; Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1914; First Army Unit, Europe, 1918; Dean, Duke Medical School: construction of School and hospital, opening of School in 1930, furnishing library, selection of staff; trustee of Duke Endowment, 1960. Impressions of Doris Duke and numerous academic figures.

Transcript: 153 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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