Lecture Admission Ticket

Admission Ticket for Ichabod Tucker to the Lectures of Aaron Dexter at Harvard Medical School, October 14, 1790

The use of admission tickets for each course of a medical student’s education was common until the late 19^th century. Students paid the lecturer or professor directly and were then issued these passes for an academic session. This particular item is the earliest admission ticket known for a Harvard Medical School course. Aaron Dexter (1750-1829) was the professor of chemistry and materia medica and the third member, along with John Warren and Benjamin Waterhouse, of Harvard’s original medical faculty.