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the Medical School; ami the luw Imildin^sof H)05 bejjan to Im- pjaiiiicij. 
The fuiidaiiu'iital consideration in ])lanniii^ and constructing; the new 
buildings was to adapt them thoroni:liIy to the new method <»f in- 
struction in medicine, — a method which relied chiefly on iiidividtial 
instruction and laboratory work. Minot's careful study of the best 
laboratory acconunodations for snuill sections in well-lighted and well- 
ventilated rooms, with a desk for each student, was taken up again, 
and contr'lnited much to the fiiud success of the architect's plans. 
The accommodations fc»r the Department of Histology and Human 
Embryology conformed to Minot's conception of the present and 
future needs of his department, and served as a type for the labora- 
tories of other departments in the School. 
It became possible to enlarge the number of teachers employe<l in 
the Departiuent; and its intimate connection with the teaching of 
Anatomy was recognized. When Dr. Thomas Dwight, Professor of 
Anatomy since 1883, died in 1911, the School was fully prepared to 
recognize the fact that Anatomy and Histology belonged together. 
In the meantime, the James Stillman Professorship of Comparative 
Anatomy had been endowed; and to that Professorship Minot had 
been transferred in 1905. Xo Professor of Anatomy was appointed 
to succeed Dr. Dwight, but in 1912 Minot was made Director of the 
Anatomical Laboratories in the Harvard Medical School. This 
action of the Faculty and the Corporation crowned Minot's profes- 
sional career as a student and teacher of Natural History applied in 
medical education. By clear merit he had made his way, and the way 
of his Department, in the School, and, without a medical degree, hafl 
become the head of anatomical teaching in a Medical School. Under 
him in the Anatomical Department were three Assistant Professors, 
one of Anatomy, one of Histology, and one of Embryology. Fourteen 
other teachers were employed in the Department of Anatomy and 
Histology, three of whom bore the title "Histology and Embryol- 
ogy"— Minot's original subjects in the Medical School. 
Minot's advance through the Medical School was not facilitated by 
a yielding or compromising disposition, or any practice of that sort 
on his part. On the contrary, he piu'sued his ends with clear-sighted 
intensity and indomitable persistence. Suavity and geniality were 
not his leading characteristics in discussion or competition; and he 
often found it hard to see that his opponent had .some reason on his 
side. Like most independent and resolute thinkers, he had confidence 
