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...fourth year will be devoted to elective courses offered in all divisions, taught by departments and chosen by students according to their interests and needs from a catalog with the help of their faculty advisors. Throughout the preceding three years, at least one-third of the teaching time will also be devoted to elective courses...
Students would pick their elective subjects from a catalog with the assistance of faculty advisors who will oversee the general program for each student and assure that balance consistent with the aims of the students is preserved. It is anticipated that most students will attain the M.D. degree having concentrated in clinical areas but it will also be possible to specialize in clinical areas such as medical genetics, medical anthropology, administrative medicine and so forth. It is considered that one elective for the fourth year might be an internship in an approved teaching hospital for selected students...
...Kleist, the box which houses the Harvard book-jacket collection is worth more than all the first editions in Houghton. Since 1948 he has taken a few minutes at the end of each day to sift through the five or six dozen jackets accumulated for him by Widener's catalog department, where he works as a specialist in Dutch, African, and Frisian books. About ten per cent of these jackets escape immediate oblivion and go to his home for more critical scrutiny. Since Harvard College Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf decided in 1948 to preserve only the works of "outstanding...
Kleist meticulously adds about 60 jackets a year to the Harvard collection, which now includes some 1000 jackets. The collection is listed in the card catalog under "book-jackets," and anyone can request to see it. Kleist admits that student enthusiasm for the collection has not been over-whelming. The last person to use it was a girl from Simmons doing a term paper on book-jackets...
...lack of time, space, and encouragement has prevented Kleist from working on a permanent display and a comprehensive card catalog for the two collections. Kleist hopes that someday a cooperative effort by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the School of Design, and the Fogg Museum will finance facilities and maintenance...