Medical School Hold Commencement; Overseers Will Permit Women Students

One hundred thirty-six students graduated from the Harvard Medical School yesterday in the second wartime Commencement of the school. All but 11 of the men were commissioned into the Army of the United States or the United States Naval Reserve, in ceremonies held in conjunction with the graduation.

Governor Leverett E. Saltonstall '14, president of the Board of Overseers, was present at the ceremonies, as was Vice-Admiral Ross T. McIntire, (MC) USN, Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy, who addressed the gathering as the chief speaker of the occasion.

Held in the Medical School Quadrangle, the ceremonies made 87 graduates first lieutenants, AUS, and 38 other men lieutenants, junior grade, USNR. At the conclusion of the proceedings, the newly-commissioned men passed' in review.

Although the graduates represented some 30 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, over 20 are residents of New England, with the majority of these coming from Massachusetts.

Lieutenant R. K. Tupper of the Navy Chaplain Corps offered an introductory prayer after the graduates had been seated. Following a few words by Saltonstall and C. Sidney Burwell, Dean of the Medical Faculty, the commissions began.

Colonel Francis L. Purdon, USA, Commanding Officer of the Army Training Schools at Harvard, administered the oath to the Army candidates, and Captain C. H. J. Keppler, USN, Commander of the Naval Training Schools at Harvard, administered it to the Navy candidates.

Final event in the program was the pronouncing of the benediction by Chaplain (Major) Ernest L. Loomis, Assistant Chaplain, First Service Command.