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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columbia University last week took steps to make the Doctor of Medicine degree a great deal less valuable than it is at present. It wanted to make it difficult "for a physician ... to go to a medical centre ... for a few months and return to his community as a self-labeled specialist." The University proposes that the graduate M. D. spend one post-graduate year as interne and three more years as student of one of the medical specialties. For the extra study he will receive a certificate of special proficiency, a Master of Science degree. He will...
...probable that the date selected will fall considerably before the final examination and reading periods, as communication with undergraduates at that time is more difficult. To save clerical expense the application blanks will, it is expected, be distributed together with the literature and cards given annually to Freshmen in connection with the choice of concentration fields...
...them; for they are a new experiment, and some years must pass before they acquire permanent traits and traditions. But they have started well, Their members--undergraduates, tutors and associates--seem happy and contented, and few serious obstacles have arisen. The masters and senior tutors have succeeded in the difficult task of selecting the applicants, so that each House contains a fair cross-section of the student body--an undertaking larger than it ever will be again, because they had to deal with three classes, whereas hereafter their attention will be almost wholly confined to freshmen, or, more strictly, prospective...
...stunts the political influence of the undergraduate when he becomes a citizen and blinds him to the difficulties of government which even vision cannot pierce. The Conference also voted that Mr. Hoover be petitioned to appoint a student to the Geneva disarmament conference, an appointment with which it is difficult to cavil. The delegate will probably do little good to the conference for it is impossible for him to possess the facts which might make him effective. But he will learn the difficulties with which foreign negotiations are fraught and he will, if appointed, lend concrete proof to the fact...
...investigation into the careers of college graduates revealed that those who graduated in a year of depression were more successful than those who left college in happier times. Here at least is some encouragement for the student who finishes his formal education when employment is difficult to obtain...