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Many Cliffies interested in medicine have complained about the present dearth of advice, according to Helena H. Worthen '65, secretary of the Harvard-Radcliffe Pre-Medical Society. "A large number of students come to Radcliffe with thoughts of becoming doctors," she explained, "but in the absence of any practical counseling, their ambitions remain dreams and are often forgotten." Students set up the Pre-Medical Society last Fall to improve the program of advice at Harvard and Radcliffe...
Problems have arisen when one House had a surplus and another a dearth of money for adjustment purposes in any given year, Taylor said. In his opinion, the new proposal would achieve needed flexibility and be more practical than the old system, since the Aid Office has had partial responsibility for some time anyway...
...Glaser views the increasing dearth of war surplus without much alarm. "I don't want any more wars," he remarks. "Someday I'd like to call this place Central Peace Surplus...
Human Chains. In New York, Negroes kept up their demonstrations at construction sites to protest the dearth of "brown faces" (Negroes and Puerto Ricans) in the building trades. Negro children crawled under halted trucks, grinned as cops dragged them out. A group of youths stormed a crane, climbed to its hook and clung there. Groups of pickets formed human chains, locked arm-in-arm to prevent trucks from entering or leaving the medical center site. When police moved in to break the chains, other demonstrators formed new chains right behind them. At one site, mounted police rammed their way into...
...dearth of trunks, J. August, 1320 Mass. Ave., is out of the swim. For summer suits and sport coats, however, we recommend them highly. You will find their suits in poplin ($45) and dacron/wool ($85) stocked in a complete range of sizes. Brightly colored dacron/cotton bermudas go at $10, and for the more staid, they carry British linen walking shorts ($18). Calf suede desert boots, also from England ($15), are comfortable and popular...