Harsen prize

The Harsen prize was an academic prize, accompanied by a cash award, that was given to deserving graduating students of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City during the 19th century and early 20th century. There were different categories of the prize including "Clinical Reports" and "Proficiency in Examination". There were multiple placings or levels of the prize; in 1884 first prize under "Proficiency in Examination" was accompanied by an award of USD500, second place received USD300, and third place received USD200.Citation
title = YOUNG RECRUITS OF MEDICINE; COMMENCEMENT OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
newspaper = The New York Times
date = May 14, 1884
year = 1884
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9401E7D6113BE033A25757C1A9639C94659FD7CF]

Recipients

*George Frederick Shrady 1861 [cite encyclopedia
last = Walsh
first = James J.
authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York)
title = George Shrady A.M., M.D.
encyclopedia =
volume = V
pages = 448 - 449
publisher = National Americana Society, Inc.
location = New York City
date = 1919
oclc = 2481484
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA448,M1]
*Allan McLane Hamilton 1870 [cite encyclopedia
title = Allan McLane Hamilton
encyclopedia = The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States As Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women Who Are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time
volume = IX
page = 349
publisher = James Terry White and Company
location = New York City
date = 1899
oclc = 2481484
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=fd4DAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA349,M1]
*Charles Henry May, 1^st prize Clinical Reports, 1^st prize Proficiency in Examination 1883 [cite encyclopedia
last = Leonard
first = John William
authorlink = John William Leonard
coauthors = Editor
title = Charles Henry May
encyclopedia = Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women in America
edition = 1906-1907
page = 1201
publisher = Albert Nelson Marquis & Company
location = Chicago
date = 1906
issn = 0083-9396
oclc = 1141571
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=2OcLAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA1161,M1]
*George Sumner Huntington, 1^st prize Clinical Reports, 1^st prize Proficiency in Examination 1884 [cite encyclopedia
last = Hrdlička
first = Aleš
authorlink = Aleš Hrdlička
title = Biographical Memoir of George Sumner Huntington 1861-1827
encyclopedia = National Academy of Sciences of the United States Biographical Memoirs
volume = XVIII, Eleventh Memoir
page = 253
publisher = National Academy Press
location = Washington, D. C.
date = 1937
oclc = 11825701
url = http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/ghuntington.pdf] [cite journal
author = Charles F. W. McClure
journal = American Journal of Anatomy
title = George Sumner Huntington: An Appreciation
volume = 39
issue = 3
publisher = Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
location = Baltimore, Maryland
year = 1927
issn = 1553-0795
doi = 10.1002/aja.1000390302
pages = 355 - 377]
*L. S. Manson, 2^nd prize Clinical Reports 1884
*G. W. Weld, 3^rd prize Clinical Reports 1884
*George Roe Lockwood, Jr., 2^nd prize Proficiency in Examination 1884
*E. K. Morton, 3^rd prize Proficiency in Examination 1884
*Ervin Alden Tucker for Proficiency in All Branches of Medical Teaching 1885cite encyclopedia
last = Walsh
first = James J.
authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York)
title = Ervin Alden Tucker, B.S., A.M., M.D.
encyclopedia =
volume = V
page = 453
publisher = National Americana Society, Inc.
location = New York City
date = 1919
oclc = 2481484
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA453,M1]
*William Gilman Thompson for an essay 1885 [cite encyclopedia
last = Walsh
first = James J.
authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York)
title = William Gilman Thompson, Ph.B., M.D.
encyclopedia =
volume = V
page = 453
publisher = National Americana Society, Inc.
location = New York City
date = 1919
oclc = 2481484
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA453,M1]
*Edward Wight Clarke 1887 [citation
author = George Frederick Shrady, Editor
authorlink = George Frederick Shrady
title = Dr. Edward Wight Clarke
journal = Medical Record
publisher = Washington Institute of Medicine
date = January 9, 1892
year = 1892
volume = 48
number = 2
pages = 466
issn = 0363-0803
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=9x4CAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA466,M1]
*Levi Olmstead Wiggins circa 1889 [citation
author = George Frederick Shrady, Editor
authorlink = George Frederick Shrady
title = The Death of Dr. Levi Olmstead Wiggins
journal = Medical Record
publisher = Washington Institute of Medicine
date = January 9, 1892
year = 1892
volume = 48
number = 2
pages = 58
issn = 0363-0803
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=9x4CAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA48,M1]
*Austin Wilkinson Hollis 1890cite encyclopedia
last = Walsh
first = James J.
authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York)
title = Austin Wilkinson Hollis, M.D.
encyclopedia =
volume = V
page = 251
publisher = National Americana Society, Inc.
location = New York City
date = 1919
oclc = 2481484
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA251,M1]
*William Van Valzah Hayes 1893 [cite encyclopedia
last = Walsh
first = James J.
authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York)
title = William Van Valzah Hayes, Ph.B., A.M., M.D.,
encyclopedia =
volume = V
page = 246
publisher = National Americana Society, Inc.
location = New York City
date = 1919
oclc = 2481484
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA246,M1]
*Albert Ashton Berg in Clinical Reports 1894 [cite encyclopedia
last = Walsh
first = James J.
authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York)
title = Albert Ashton Berg
encyclopedia =
volume = V
page = 348
publisher = National Americana Society, Inc.
location = New York City
date = 1919
oclc = 2481484
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA348,M1]
*Archibald Henry Busby, 1^st prize Clinical Reports 1898Citation
title = EXERCISES AT COLUMBIA; President Low Presides at the First Commencement on Morningside Heights. OVATION FOR GEN. WOODFORD Prizes and Scholarships Announced and Degrees Conferred -- The Crowd Fills Every Available Seat in the Gymnasium -- The Meeting of the Alumni.
newspaper = The New York Times
date = June 9, 1898
year = 1898
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990DEFDD103CE433A2575AC0A9609C94699ED7CF]
*Edward A. Rosenberg, 2^nd prize Clinical Reports 1898
*R. J. Held, 3^rd prize Clinical Reports 1898
*Victor C. Peterson, 1^st prize Proficiency in Examination 1898
*Philip Schieffelin Sabine, 2^nd prize Proficiency in Examination 1898
*Hughes Dayton, 3^rd prize Proficiency in Examination 1898
*William W. Vibbert, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
*George A. Saxe, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
*John M. Taylor, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
*Emil A. Rundquist, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
*Charles M. Williams, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
*Burton J. Lee, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
*Stanley O. Sabel, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
*Haven Emerson, 1901 [Men of 1914 citation|E|Emerson, Haven]

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