Student theses a unique tradition
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.
A thesis, nothing new to undergraduates, is rarely part of a medical school education. But Yale has required one since 1839, by far the oldest such requirement among medical...
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