Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years Social, Including Twenty Years Professional Life

Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years Social, Including Twenty Years Professional Life

Hunt, Harriot Kezia, 1805-1875

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Harvard Medical School

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Harriot Kesia Hunt

Harriot Kesia Hunt’s autobiography describes her attempts to study medicine at Harvard. After practicing medicine in Boston for a number of years, she applied to the Medical School in 1847 and then again in 1850 and was the first woman to apply for education at Harvard. The Medical Faculty, though questioning the validity of conferring a degree on a woman, agreed to admit her to lectures, but Hunt’s illness and a protest from the students at the Medical School caused her to withdraw her application. In 1853, the Female Medical College in Philadelphia conferred an honorary medical degree on Harriot K. Hunt.

The issue of admitting women to Harvard Medical School continued to provoke controversy until June 5, 1944, when the Harvard Corporation voted to admit women to the Medical School in the fall of 1945.

Hunt, Harriot Kezia, 1805-1875

John P. Jewett

1856

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