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Harvard Medical Society Renamed in Honor of Harvard Alumnus and Professor Dr. William Augustus Hinton - The New York Beacon

Harvard Medical Schoolhas approved renaming theOliver Wendell Holmes Academic Societyin honor of the lateDr.William Augustus Hinton, a former HMS clinical professor of bacteriology and immunology and 1912 HMS graduate. The recommendation from aFaculty Council Subcommittee on Artwork and Cultural Representations task forceis part of an […]

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