Daniel Laing and Isaac H. Snowden of Boston and Martin R. Delany of Pittsburgh, in 1850, were the first blacks admitted into Harvard Medical School. All three were dismissed, however, in 1851, when white students protested their presence; and the Dean of the medical school felt that 'this experiment' proved 'that intermixing of the white and Black races.....is distasteful to a large portion of the class and injurious to the interests of the school.'