Harvard Medical Society Renamed in Honor of First Black Tenured Professor, Physician-Scientist Hinton

By Meera S. Nair, Crimson Staff Writer October 7, 2020

Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley approved renaming the school’s Holmes Society in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton, Class of 1905, the first Black tenured professor at Harvard. Until now, the Holmes Society bore the name of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Class of 1829, a writer, physician, and former Dean of Harvard Medical School. Holmes was one of the first American intellectuals to promote the racist doctrine of eugenics. Read HERE.