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...departing from purely routine affairs of his department and daring to interpret sickness in terms of underlying anxiety and worry, Dr. Bock in his Report to the President has shown his insight into student problems and has gone far in implying a solution to the factors of modern civilization as they threaten to impede Harvard's progress. His words are proof, if proof be needed, that the University's attitude toward the undergraduate must change with changing times if he is fully to benefit from what the College has to offer...
...justice to the University it must be said that a conscious effort has been made to eliminate "the stresses and strains of living" to which Dr. Bock attributes much of the illness treated by his department. Every attempt has been made to relieve the undergraduate from financial worry, although many of these services are not fully appreciated. In addition to an increasing effort to provide scholarships for deserving students, excellent work has been done by the Placement Bureau and the Student Employment Office in finding jobs for men during and after college, and this service has been supplemented by loans...
...from the undergraduate mind is the policy of the officers of the University in remaining accessable to students at all times. Despite the growth of the University, this personal note has been carried over from the Harvard "of thirty years ago,"--when students were less harassed, according to Dr. Bock--and is one of the most valuable assets of the college today...
...consideration of these modern complexities "it is possible to predict a broader role for medicine in the university than is involved in the care of acute infections and other physical disorders," Dr. Bock said...
...hygiene department invites Harvardmen to come to it for prophylaxis and diagnosis, sends them to capable physicians for treatment, tells no tales. Its head is friendly, boyish-looking Dr. Arlie Vernon Bock, who thinks that the old compulsory hygiene course at Harvard (known to undergraduates as Smut 1) is well buried, that more hygiene can be taught by "daily contacts with the men." Hygienist Bock's chief worry is not the indiscreet ardor of Harvardmen (less than 1% of whom contract venereal disease) but "Harvard indifference toward human personality...