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When in Rome. By the time he was 25, Bing had become assistant to the Darmstadt Opera's famed Actor-Director Carl Ebert. Germany in those days, however, was rocking wildly. Bing, whose family for generations had been Roman Catholics (although one great-grandmother was Jewish), quickly got fed up with the Nazis and in 1933 left the country. With Ebert, he landed in England on a rolling Sussex Downs estate, and there the two founded the Glyndebourne Festival, the home of some of the finest Mozart performances heard anywhere. When World War II interrupted that idyl, Bing took...
This year the Harvard Medical School undertook a major reevaluation of its curriculum. Dr. Alexander Leaf, chairman of the Med School's curriculum committee, headed the study. His report is now in the hands of Dr. Robert H. Ebert, Dean of the Medical School. The report will be released in the fall and members of the Med School Faculty will discuss its recommendations. In a speech delivered last winter, Dr. Ebert set forth his ideas on Medical School curricula and indicated the direction changes are likely to take. Excerpts of the speech are printed below...
...Colleges representing the specialties. It would be a progressive step if medical schools became more strongly identified with the University environment, for not only would this profit the student, but it might also allow a more objective look at the problems of medical care in this nation.Dr. ROBERT H. EBERT: 'Rather than one curriculum there should be several responsive to the different interests and backgrounds of students. We are educating mn for a variety of careers, and our educational process must recognize this fact while protecting against the creation of trade schools turning out specialist technicians...
...Dean Ebert of the Med School approves the second-year students' independent study program; five of the students add they want to be exempted from some exams, too. The Faculty Club announces a $350,000 expansion. The Ed School's Roy E. Larsen Hall is dedicated. "Now that they mention it," says the architect, "it does look something like a castle...
...Ebert cautioned that shortened training programs would offer less flexibility on the college or medical school level, but said that the quality of a medical education would not necessarily suffer...