“glum, poorly lighted, badly ventilated, over-crowded building” on North Grove Street. The students faced other difficulties too. Dr. Worcester wrote, “In those years corpses or stiffs as we called them, were so scarce that the students were always behind their schedule for dissecting. This they should have done in their first year, but now in their second year I had caught up with some of them. As in the daytime the tables were so fully in use by first year students we had to do our dissecting by feeble gas lights at night. As that was before corpses were embalmed, the stench was terrible.”]]> Reminiscences, Chapter VI, "The Harvard Medical School in the Early Eighties"]]>