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...Committee on Admissions is conscious of the fact that many men who apply to a medical school are interest primarily in the money, or have been brow-beaten into the profession by socially-conscious parents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Medical: 166 Years of Honor . . . And Collegiate Spirit | 12/14/1950 | See Source »

While they must be consciously on the watch for applicants not interested in medicine per se, members of the committee admit that many a brow-beaten or financially-minded youth has, in four years, developed a fanatic devotion to the profession. At the same time, they state from experience that quite often it is not the most brilliant college men who do the best work in the School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Medical: 166 Years of Honor . . . And Collegiate Spirit | 12/14/1950 | See Source »

Tedium & Hilarity. A less bitter critic than Maugham will not wonder long, after dipping into Classics and Commercials. It has all of Wilson's occasional faults: casual superciliousness, high-brow reserve, lack of warmth. But it also illustrates most of his more important virtues: a literary curiosity that ranges from horror stories and a life of John Barrymore to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and the precious hot-house blooms of Ronald Fir-bank (TIME, Nov. 21, 1949), an oldfashioned, discursive style, an artful way of saying exactly what a writer is up to while explaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caviar for the General | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Kidder, in honor of whom the medal is named, is a member of the faculty of Peabody Museum. John O. Brow, director of the Peabody Museum, said last night that, "Dr. Kidder is America's foremost living archaeologist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briefs of Today's News | 11/2/1950 | See Source »

...Furrowed Brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Calloused Hand | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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