Admission Ticket to a lecture at Harvard Medical School

Admission Ticket to a lecture at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

Admission tickets

The use of admission tickets for each course of a medical student’s education was common until the late 19th 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.

Admission ticket for Ichabod Tucker to the lectures of Aaron Dexter at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

1790 October 14

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Gift of Francis H. Lee to the Harvard College Library and transferred to the Harvard Medical Library, 1917