Student notes for undergraduate courses, 1940-1942.

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Student notes for undergraduate courses, 1940-1942.

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This collection documents undergraduate coursework during the period just before World War II. It consists of lecture and reading notes taken by Edward S. Petersen while a student in Harvard College. Notebooks for 1940-1941 contain: Biology 2, Chemistry A, Fine Arts 1; each of the notebooks for 1941-1942 may contain notes for more than one class.

12 notebooks (ca. 1 cubic foot in 3 boxes).

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Petersen, Edward, 1932-

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Edward S. Petersen (1921- ), a physician, graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1945. He was an associate professor of medicine at Northwestern University from 1954-1972 and was director of undergraduate medical education for the American Medical Association from 1972 until his retirement in 1988. In addition to writing on modern medicine and medical education, Petersen has published numerous articles on the history of medicine, particularly military medicine on the American western frontier....