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...worthy poor," cared for in charity wards as teaching material for interns, certainly never attain any close doctor-patient relationship. The large mass of people between the poor and the rich only see doctors for serious illness. Because of its high cost, these people are probably ready to accept the diagnosis proferred without quibbling about whether the doctor is an old family friend. Besides, the passing intimacy of the office can exist under any system because it basically depends upon the individual physician...
LOOKING toward the future, it will take even greater effort and skill and imagination to attain those goals. For perhaps the great reality that faces us is that there is so much to be done in the world, in so many fields of human activity. Year by year the world's unfinished business seems to grow greater. We want to send men to the moon, to nourish the underfed billions on our productive planet, to war against insects and disease, to unsnarl the tangled traffic in and around our cities, to draw fresh water from the sea and energy...
...pointed out that within every ethnic group a certain amount of time is needed for the group to produce scholars who can meet the standards of academic competition. "Such achievement is not possible in the first generation," Ford said, noting that people of Chinese extraction are just beginning to attain professorships at many American universities...
...instructors treat course material from a technical viewpoint. These courses are meant for both undergraduates and graduate students. But in the great majority of cases, the subject-matter of a 100-group course is not meant for both groups, but rather is chosen primarily to aid the graduate student attain a technical mastery of the discipline...
...Task of Scholarship. Speaking of the ecumenical spirit as "this surprising fact," Cardinal Bea (pronounced Bay-uh) again and again referred to the lack of Christian unity as "a painful story, an open wound that goes on bleeding and hurting." Healing the wound to attain perfect unity will be long and hard, he warned, and we must not "search for compromises." But while this union is in God's hands, men can prepare the way. Scholarship, said the cardinal, could help bring churches together by clearing away the misconceptions and prejudices that led to the historic schisms, by finding...