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President Emeritus James B. Conant stressed the importance of giving prestige to two-year colleges in a recent speech at Syracuse, N.Y. Connected with the problem, he noted, was the college pressure existing in the high schools of metropolitan New York...
Finishing a year-long project of research into American high school problems, Conant stated that New York schools are operating under "special social pressures" from parents who want their children to go to college...
...result of increased high school math and science, Conant said, the premed student "could be examined in the sciences by the end of the freshman year, and be freed of further course requirements in science...
This preparation, Conant concluded, would eliminate sophomores science requirements and would make the national certificate plan feasible...
Speaking before a Philadelphia meeting of the Association of American Medical Schools, Conant recommended that a national certificate be established which could assure the student, at the end of his sophomore year, of admission to medical school...