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@faculty_meeting_minutes_collection:collection {title: "Faculty Meeting Minutes Collection, 1850-1859", creator: [@e_turrell_dean, @e_furseil, @e_furrell, @e_furness], institution: "drexel-production", created: @date_1850_1859, language: "en", description: "A collection of faculty meeting minutes from 1850 to 1859, discussing various academic and administrative topics.", place: [@united_states, @boston, @musical_fund_hall], subjects: ["Faculty meetings","Medical education","Academic appointments","Academic degrees","Materia Medica","Chemistry","Toxicology","Educational lectures","Examinations","Theses","Women in Medicine"]}
@faculty_meeting_minutes_collection -> includes -> [@faculty_meeting_march_1850:event, @faculty_meeting_october_1857:event, @faculty_meetings_1858:event, @faculty_meeting_1859:event]
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# PERSON‑ROLE SYNTHESIS (Dean / President)
@dean_role:concept {description: "Senior academic administrator overseeing faculty meetings"}
@president_role:concept {description: "Head of the medical college, often presiding over meetings"}
@e_turrell_dean -> role -> @dean_role
@e_furseil -> role -> @dean_role
@e_furrell -> role -> @president_role
@e_furrell -> role -> @dean_role {note: "Served as President in 1850 and as Dean in 1858‑1859"}
@e_furness -> role -> @dean_role
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# RECURRING ACADEMIC PERSONNEL
@cleveland:person -> delivered lecture at -> @general_introductory_lecture:event {when: @date_1858_10_16}
@cleveland:person -> appointed to deliver -> @general_introductory_lecture:lecture {by: @meeting_dec_27_1858:event}
@cleveland:person -> referred student -> @miss_underwood {topic: "Water"} {source: @faculty_meeting_feb14_1859:event}
@cleveland:person -> referred student -> @miss_boyle {topic: "cause of Circulation of the Blood"} {source: @faculty_meeting_feb14_1859:event}
@dr_f_s_c_rothing:person -> recommended for -> @faculty_meeting_october_1857:event {position: "Chair of Materia Medica & Therapeutics", vacancy: @dr_neer}
@dr_f_s_c_rothing:person -> elected to -> @faculty_meeting_october_1857:event {position: "Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics"}
@mr_semple:person -> recommended for -> @faculty_meeting_october_1857:event {position: "Professor of Chemistry & Toxicology", vacancy: @dr_harvey}
@matthew_semple:person -> elected to -> @faculty_meeting_october_1857:event {position: "Professor of Chemistry & Toxicology"}
@dr_birdsell:person -> appointed to deliver -> @valedictory_address:event {by: @meeting_dec_27_1858:event}
@dr_birdsell:person -> reported on -> @thesis_barkey:document {assessment: "Complex and obscure"} {source: @faculty_meeting_feb17_1859:event}
@dr_birdsell:person -> addressed at -> @meeting_feb_3_1859:event {address: "Prof. Birdsell's address"}
@dr_gormings:person -> appointed lecturer on -> @surgery_lecture:event {by: @meeting_dec_27_1858:event}
@dr_gormings:person -> reported on -> @thesis_underwood:document {assessment: "Well written & clearly expressed"} {source: @faculty_meeting_feb17_1859:event}
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# WOMEN IN MEDICINE (students & thesis authors)
@women_in_medicine:concept {description: "Female participants in medical education during the 1850s"}
@miss_zimmerman:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@miss_zimmerman:person -> discussed thesis at -> @faculty_meeting_march_1850:event {outcome: "admitted to examination for M.D."}
@miss_boyle:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@miss_stratton:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@miss_underwood:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@miss_shelley:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@miss_adams:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@miss_porter:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@mrs_mcclean:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@mrs_stratton:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@mrs_barkey:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@mrs_underwood:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@mrs_adams:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
@mrs_parker:person -> part of -> @women_in_medicine
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# EXAMINATIONS & THESIS CYCLE (temporal chain)
@preliminary_examinations:event -> type -> @examination:event
@examination_feb17_1859:event -> type -> @examination:event
@faculty_meeting_feb10_1859:event -> resolved -> @preliminary_examinations:event {when: @date_1859_02_10}
@faculty_meeting_feb17_1859:event -> resulted in -> @examination_feb17_1859:event {participants: [@mrs_mcclean, @mrs_stratton, @mrs_barkey, @mrs_underwood, @mrs_adams, @mrs_parker]}
@faculty_meeting_feb17_1859:event -> furnished -> @notice_examination:document {type: "notice of time & place", to: "faculty"}
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# LECTURE SCHEDULING PATTERNS
@motion_general_intro_time:motion {proposed_time: "3:30"} {source: @faculty_meeting_oct7_1859:event}
@lecture_time:concept {time: "4:00 PM"} {source: @faculty_meeting_october_1857:event}
@faculty_meeting_october_1857:event -> set lecture time -> @lecture_time
@faculty_meeting_oct7_1859:event -> moved -> @motion_general_intro_time
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# COMMITTEE & ORGANIZATIONAL LINKS
@committee_on_beneficence:organization -> reported by -> @faculty_meeting_october_1857:event {report: "Admission of no students"}
@essay_committee:event -> appointed committee -> @essay_committee:event {members: [@dr_furrell, @preston, @cleveland]}
@committee_preston_lecture:organization -> members -> [@dr_birchell_cleveland, @rockey] {source: @faculty_meeting_oct7_1859:event}
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# COLLECTION‑LEVEL ABSTRACTS
@faculty_meetings_series:concept {description: "Recurring faculty meetings held annually from 1850 to 1859 at various venues (Boston, Musical Fund Hall)"}
@faculty_meeting_minutes_collection -> documents series -> @faculty_meetings_series
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# SYNTHESIS SUMMARY (implicit in graph)
# • The same senior administrators (@e_furrell, @e_furness, @e_furseil, @e_turrell_dean) repeatedly appear as Dean or President across the decade.
# • @cleveland serves as lecturer, examiner, and advisor to multiple female students, linking lecture scheduling, examination, and women‑in‑medicine themes.
# • Examination events in early 1859 flow from preliminary examinations (Feb 10) to a full examination (Feb 17‑19) and culminate in a notice document, illustrating a temporal chain of academic assessment.
# • Lecture‑time motions and concepts show a pattern of scheduling adjustments across years (4 PM in 1857, 3:30 PM motion in 1859).
# • Female participants (Miss Zimmerman, Miss Boyle, etc.) are consistently connected to the @women_in_medicine concept, highlighting the collection’s emphasis on “Women in Medicine.”
---# Reorganization Summary The files were grouped based on the year of the faculty meetings documented in their content. This strategy ensures that each group contains logically related files that pertain to specific years, making it easier to locate and reference documents based on the timeframe of the events they describe. Files without OCR content were assigned to groups based on their filenames and metadata, which indicate their association with the corresponding year-specific content. ## Groups Created - **Faculty_Meetings_1857**: Files containing minutes from faculty meetings in 1857, including discussions on appointments and lectures. - **Faculty_Meetings_1858**: Files containing minutes from faculty meetings in 1858, including discussions on degree conferrals and session schedules. - **Faculty_Meetings_1859**: Files containing minutes from faculty meetings in 1859, including discussions on examinations, lectures, and session closures. - **Faculty_Meetings_1850**: Files containing minutes from faculty meetings in 1850, including discussions on thesis evaluations and session closures.