Harsen Prize
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The Harsen prize was an academic prize, accompanied by tiered cash awards, that was given to graduating students of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Different categories of the prize included "Clinical Reports" and "Proficiency in Examination". In 1884 first prize under "Proficiency in Examination" was accompanied by an award of US$500 (about ${{Inflation|index=US|value=500|start_year=1884|r=-3|fmt=c}} in current dollars), second place received US$300, and third place received US$200.{{Cite news
| title = YOUNG RECRUITS OF MEDICINE; COMMENCEMENT OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
| newspaper=The New York Times
| date = May 14, 1884
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1884/05/14/archives/young-recruits-of-medicine-commencement-of-the-college-of.html
}}
Recipients
- George Frederick Shrady, Sr. 1861{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1919 |title=George Shrady A.M., M.D. |encyclopedia=History of Medicine in New York: Three Centuries of Medical Progress |publisher=National Americana Society, Inc. |location=New York City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ |last=Walsh |first=James J. |volume=V |pages=448–449 |oclc=2481484 |authorlink=James J. Walsh (New York politician)}}
- Allan McLane Hamilton 1870{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1899 |title=Allan McLane Hamilton |encyclopedia=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States As Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women Who Are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time |publisher=James Terry White and Company |location=New York City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fd4DAAAAYAAJ |volume=IX |page=349 |oclc=2481484}}
- Charles Henry May, 1st prize Clinical Reports, 1st prize Proficiency in Examination 1883{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1906 |title=Charles Henry May |encyclopedia=Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women in America |publisher=Albert Nelson Marquis & Company |location=Chicago |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2OcLAAAAIAAJ |last=Leonard |first=John William |edition=1906–1907 |page=1201 |issn=0083-9396 |oclc=1141571 |authorlink=John William Leonard}}
- George Sumner Huntington, 1st prize Clinical Reports, 1st prize Proficiency in Examination 1884{{cite encyclopedia
| last = Hrdlička
| first = Aleš
| authorlink = Aleš Hrdlička
| title = Biographical Memoir of George Sumner Huntington 1861-1827
| encyclopedia = National Academy of Sciences of the United States Biographical Memoirs
| volume = XVIII, Eleventh Memoir
| page = 253
| publisher=National Academy Press
| location = Washington, D. C.
| year = 1937
| oclc = 11825701
| url = http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/ghuntington.pdf}}{{cite journal
| author=Charles F. W. McClure
| author-link=Charles F. W. McClure
| journal=American Journal of Anatomy
| title = George Sumner Huntington: An Appreciation
| volume = 39
| issue = 3
| publisher=Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
| location = Baltimore, Maryland
| year = 1927
| doi = 10.1002/aja.1000390302
| pages = 355–377}}
- L. S. Manson, 2nd prize Clinical Reports 1884
- G. W. Weld, 3rd prize Clinical Reports 1884
- George Roe Lockwood, Jr., 2nd prize Proficiency in Examination 1884
- E. K. Morton, 3rd prize Proficiency in Examination 1884
- Ervin Alden Tucker for Proficiency in All Branches of Medical Teaching 1885{{cite encyclopedia
| last = Walsh
| first = James J.
| authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York politician)
| title = Ervin Alden Tucker, B.S., A.M., M.D
| encyclopedia = History of Medicine in New York: Three Centuries of Medical Progress
| volume = V
| page = 453
| publisher=National Americana Society, Inc.
| location = New York City
| year = 1919
| oclc = 2481484
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ}}
- William Gilman Thompson for an essay 1885{{cite encyclopedia
| last = Walsh
| first = James J.
| authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York politician)
| title = William Gilman Thompson, Ph.B., M.D
| encyclopedia = History of Medicine in New York: Three Centuries of Medical Progress
| volume = V
| page = 453
| publisher=National Americana Society, Inc.
| location = New York City
| year = 1919
| oclc = 2481484
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ}}
| author=George Frederick Shrady Sr.
| author-link=George Frederick Shrady Sr.
| title = Dr. Edward Wight Clarke
| journal=Medical Record
| publisher=Washington Institute of Medicine
| date = January 9, 1892
| volume = 48
| pages = 466
| issn = 0363-0803
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9x4CAAAAYAAJ
| issue = 2
}}
- Levi Olmstead Wiggins circa 1889{{Cite journal
| author=George Frederick Shrady Sr.
| author-link=George Frederick Shrady Sr.
| title = The Death of Dr. Levi Olmstead Wiggins
| journal=Medical Record
| publisher=Washington Institute of Medicine
| date = January 9, 1892
| volume = 48
| pages = 58
| issn = 0363-0803
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9x4CAAAAYAAJ
| issue = 2
}}
| last = Walsh
| first = James J.
| authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York politician)
| title = Austin Wilkinson Hollis, M.D
| encyclopedia = History of Medicine in New York: Three Centuries of Medical Progress
| volume = V
| page = 251
| publisher=National Americana Society, Inc.
| location = New York City
| year = 1919
| oclc = 2481484
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ}}
- Alexis Moschcowitz 1891{{Cite news|url=http://nyti.ms/1Ac3PSg|title=Dr. Moschcowitz of Mt. Sinai Dies|date=December 21, 1933|access-date=March 9, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times}}
- William Van Valzah Hayes 1893{{cite encyclopedia
| last = Walsh
| first = James J.
| authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York politician)
| title = William Van Valzah Hayes, Ph.B., A.M., M.D.
| encyclopedia = History of Medicine in New York: Three Centuries of Medical Progress
| volume = V
| page = 246
| publisher=National Americana Society, Inc.
| location = New York City
| year = 1919
| oclc = 2481484
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ}}
- Albert Ashton Berg in Clinical Reports 1894{{cite encyclopedia
| last = Walsh
| first = James J.
| authorlink = James J. Walsh (New York politician)
| title = Albert Ashton Berg
| encyclopedia = History of Medicine in New York: Three Centuries of Medical Progress
| volume = V
| page = 348
| publisher=National Americana Society, Inc.
| location = New York City
| year = 1919
| oclc = 2481484
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6g4JAAAAIAAJ}}
- Archibald Henry Busby, 1st prize Clinical Reports 1898{{Cite news
| title = EXERCISES AT COLUMBIA; President Low Presides at the First Commencement on Morningside Heights. OVATION FOR GEN. WOODFORD Prizes and Scholarships Announced and Degrees Conferred – The Crowd Fills Every Available Seat in the Gymnasium – The Meeting of the Alumni.
| newspaper=The New York Times
| date = June 9, 1898
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1898/06/09/archives/exercises-at-columbia-president-low-presides-at-the-first.html
}}
- Edward A. Rosenberg, 2nd prize Clinical Reports 1898
- R. J. Held, 3rd prize Clinical Reports 1898
- Victor C. Peterson, 1st prize Proficiency in Examination 1898
- Philip Schieffelin Sabine, 2nd prize Proficiency in Examination 1898
- Hughes Dayton, 3rd prize Proficiency in Examination 1898
- William W. Vibbert, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
- George A. Saxe, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
- John M. Taylor, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
- Emil A. Rundquist, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
- Charles M. Williams, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
- Burton J. Lee, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
- Stanley O. Sabel, honors in Proficiency in Examination 1898
- Haven Emerson, 1901{{Men of 1914 citation|E|Emerson, Haven}}
- William T. Bull, 1902
References
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