Demise of the Medical School of Maine

Vote 10, December 18, 1920 and Vote 54, July 22, 1921, Board of Overseers in the original Records of the Overseers, No. 6, 1920-1929. Board of Trustees: Votes and Records, Bowdoin College Archive.

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In December 1920, the Boards voted to end all responsibility for the school unless an endowment for it could be obtained by June 1921. No endowment was secured, and at the end of Commencement 1921 the Medical School of Maine was officially closed.

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