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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Letter from Charles Eliot to Calvin Ellis]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Eliot, Charles W.]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Ellis, Calvin]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Correspondence]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In this letter to Calvin Ellis, the dean of Harvard Medical School, President Eliot outlines several key factors in his proposed educational reforms: a three-year course sequence; examinations, partly written, in each department; familiarity with dissection; and attendance for at least two terms.  These changes were all in place by the opening of the term in the fall of 1871.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Letter from President Charles Eliot to Calvin Ellis concerning his proposed education reforms]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Eliot, Charles W.]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1871 February 26]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The Harvard Medical Library does not hold copyright on all materials in this collection. For use information, consult Public Services at chm@hms.harvard.edu]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Access to the original work depicted requires advance notice. Contact Public Services at chm@hms.harvard.edu for additional information]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School. Office of the Dean. Records, 1828-1904 (inclusive). 1869-1874 (bulk). RG M-DE01. Series 00266. Box 5, folder 9.]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:references><![CDATA[<p>An online guide to the collection is available. Click <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.Count:med00110">here.</a></p>]]></dcterms:references>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[text]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1 manuscript letter (3 pages)]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[text]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[DigID0002469-0002471]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[From the Collections of the Harvard Medical Library]]></dcterms:provenance>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Letter from the Massachusetts Colonization Society to the Medical Faculty of Harvard College]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Correspondence]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Massachusetts Colonization Society (author)]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Laing, Daniel, Jr.]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Snowden, Isaac H.]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This letter from Holmes&rsquo; tenure as dean of Harvard Medical School relates to the education of two African-American students, Daniel Laing, Jr., and Isaac H. Snowden. The Massachusetts Colonization Society promoted the education of Laing and Snowden, planning to send them out to practice in the Republic of Liberia.
<p>Laing, Snowden and a third student, Martin Robison Delany, enrolled during the winter term in 1850 but were forced to withdraw following a protest by some of the Medical School students. Both Laing and Snowden went on to pursue medical studies at Dartmouth.</p>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Letter from the Massachusetts Colonization Society requesting the admission of African-American students Daniel Laing, Jr. and Isaac H. Snowden]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Massachusetts Colonization Society]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1850 November 01]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The Harvard Medical Library does not hold copyright on all materials in this collection. For use information, consult Public Services at chm@hms.harvard.edu]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Access to the original work depicted requires advance notice. Contact Public Services at chm@hms.harvard.edu for additional information]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School. Office of the Dean. Records, 1828-1904 (inclusive), 1869-1874 (bulk). RG M-DE01 Series 00266 (AA1), box 4, f. 9]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[text]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1 manuscript letter (1 page)]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[text]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[DigID0002162]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[From the Archives of Harvard Medical School]]></dcterms:provenance>
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