Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, December 1, 2008 at 5:54pm

Student theses a unique tradition

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Published Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Most theses are lucky to be read once, but Edwin Anderson’s sits in a place of honor. The 21-year-old Yale medical student didn’t write on anything glamorous — kidney stones that enter the bladder — and his work didn’t even make a lasting impression on that field. But Anderson wrote his thesis in 1837, making it one of the earliest surviving examples of an enduring tradition at the Yale School of Medicine.
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