When finally in 1811 a state ban was put on the "illegal procurement" of human bodies, the School authorities were forced to look for a more agreeable solution. The one they eventually hit upon is the one used today--procurement, upon agreement, of the bodies of wards of state institutions.

In order to be close to whatever hospital facilities might develop in a large and growing city, the Medical School moved to Boston in 1810. It occupied several different buildings over a period of years, generally in the area of Boylston Street, between Arlington Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Although women were not admitted to the School until 1945, the controversy over coeducation in this institution started in the later years of the 19th century, but was squelched by the Corporation.

It Moves Again

In 1904, under President Charles William Eliot, another great expansion was prepared and plans were drawn up for the present buildings on Longwood Avenue at the head of Avenue Louis Pasteur. The cost of land, construction, furnishing, and providing a suitable endowment for the four laboratory buildings and one administration hall was estimated at $5,000,000. Money poured in generously, with large donations from John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, David Spears '74, Collis P. Huntington, and other individuals and groups.

In September 1906 the Medical School moved in.

In general, no one feels that the present School is number one in the nation or the world more strongly than a Harvard Medical student. As one man puts it, "We come here realizing that the School is very good. After we're here long enough we start to feel that this is the best."