Teaching Dr. Cabot Demoted

At the Harvard School of Business Administration, Professor Philip Cabot, 57, teaches incipient timocrats the devious financial ways of public utilities companies. His brother, Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot, four years older, is a professor at the Harvard Medical School. Philip's twin, Dr. Hugh, taught at the Harvard Medical School from 1910 to 1918. In 1919 he became Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan, was made the school's Dean two years later.

Both Medical Cabots have pronounced and individualistic views on professional ethics. Dr. Richard, who pontificates unofficially over Boston medicos, precipitated a roar of controversy four years ago when he published his judgment that it was better for the medical profession and the public for doctors to practice in groups than as individuals (TIME,April 12, 1926). Lately he has been reticent with his opinions.

Dr. Hugh, too, has ideas about doctor deportment with which many a colleague does not agree. For his views, last week, he was relieved of his deanship.

Dr. Hugh Cabot believes that teaching doctors should devote all their time to pedagogy, should eschew outside practice. The sentiment that a medical professor should be content to exchange a life of teaching with a moderate income for a career of practice with larger emoluments has grown, in the past few years, notably at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, and Columbia. But when introduced a the University of Michigan, the notion was not well received. Faculty friction resulted. The Board of Regents met, pondered the situation, decided to demote Dr. Cabot. He still retains his Surgery Professorship at Michigan where he will continue to instruct medical students but not practice, as he preaches.*

*Dr. Hugh Cabot is the second eminent Harvard graduate forced to resign from his University of Michigan post within a year. The other was Clarence Cook Little, the university's president, whose administration policies the Board of Regents politically dislike. Dr. Little (a doctor of science, not of medicine) has returned to the genetics study of his youth. Also he is now director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer.

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