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...Culver added that he was in complete agreement with statements made by William Barry Wood '32, chairman of the microbiology department at John Hopkins, at Dunster House...
...However, Culver stressed that the pre-medical student should get a liberal education. He feared that among pre-meds the tendency is to become technicians. This is particularly true, he observed, at those colleges that have a set pre-medical curriculum...
...problem is not in stating that every student should get a liberal education. The difficulty, Culver added, is that no one knows what a liberal education is. Adequate experience in science is needed for everybody...
Elaborating on this point, Culver said that the person who is a non-science major should take at least four courses in the sciences at as advanced a level as he can handle. "Advanced placement is good in this respect, in that it permits boys and girls to start work on a real college level, not with just a survey course of what they did in high school...
...However, Culver stated that the medical school has reservations about accepting students after only three years of college experience. "In three years most people can't do everything. There is, however, no set policy...