Series 2 - College education

0.25 m of records (multimedia)

After graduating from Cattaragus High School in 1891, Dr. Farrar spent two years as an undergraduate at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He then transferred to Harvard College where he enjoyed courses with famous professors such as the philosopher, George Santayana, and the psychologist, James Welch. Dr. Farrar received his A.B. in 1896. He then spent the next year at Harvard Medical School before transferring to the Faculty of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. There, he studied under the ‘four horsemen’ of Johns Hopkins medicine - William Osler, William Welch, William Halstead, and Howard Kelly - and graduated with his M.D. in 1900.

The records in this series document Dr. Farrar’s undergraduate arts and graduate medical education at Allegheny College, Harvard College, and John Hopkins University. The records deal mostly with Dr. Farrar’s classroom activities, rather than his social life. The records have been divided into four sub-series and are described below.

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