Richard Olding Beard papers 1906-1934

University of Minnesota. School of Nursing

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On October 1, 1908, the University of Minnesota Board of Regents authorized the establishment of a nursing program as part of the University's curriculum. The school opened in March 1909, graduating its first class in 1912. In 1919, a five-year program leading to a baccalaureate degree in nursing began. Specialized baccalaureate programs were established in the fields of nursing education (1922) and nursing administration (1955). These specialized programs were phased out in the early 1960s with...

University of Minnesota. Medical School

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The 1851 territorial legislative act establishing the University of Minnesota provided for a Department of Medicine. This department, as originally instituted, was not an educational department but rather a credentialing board that provided examinations and conferred degrees upon physicians who had learned to practice medicine by studying with a preceptor. In April 1887, Percy Millard, Charles Hewitt, D. Hand, and President Cyrus Northrop petitioned the Board of Regents to abolish t...

University of Minnesota. Hospitals

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Beard, Richard Olding

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Richard Olding Beard, M.D. (1882) Northwestern University School of Medicine. Richard Olding Beard was born in Tollington Park, Middlesex, England in 1856 and came to the United States at the age of thirteen in 1869. In 1882 he graduated from the School of Medicine at Northwestern University, after which he came to Minneapolis to practice. Beard was a founding member of the Medical School at the University of Minnesota. He served as Secretary of the Medical School from 1...