Word: ebert
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...Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, has accepted the experimental program of independent study presented last month by a group of second-year medical students. The experiment will allow selected students to determine their own study in the patho-physiology course that occupies 75 per cent of the second-year students' second semester...
...interview last night, Dr. David G. Freiman, head of the patho-physiology course, acknowledged that Ebert told the students who had proposed the program he was willing to try the experiment next semester. However, Ebert was unavailable for comment...
Last week, at 66, Dr. Berry retired from the deanship. Said James Conant: "This appointment was the best job I ever did while president of Harvard." To succeed Dr. Berry, President Nathan M. Pusey has recruited Dr. Robert Higgins Ebert, 50, from the determinedly progressive medical faculty of Western Reserve. Son of a physician and brother of another, Minneapolis-born Dean Ebert (A.B., Chicago, '36; Rhodes scholar and D. Phil., Oxford, '39; M.D., Chicago, '42) now has one of the most difficult assignments a medical man can have: being...
...past, he has done significant research of his own. After receiving an A.B. degree with highest honors in biology from Princeton in 1921, he went on to Johns Hopkins Medical School where he finished second in his class in 1925. (Interestingly enough, his successor to the deanship, Robert H. Ebert, is another "outsider": A.B. and M.D. both from the University of Chicago.) After further training at Johns Hopkins, Berry moved to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City. In 1932, he became professor of Bacteriology, head of the department of Bacteriology, and associate professor of Medicine...
...Ebert said that although there is no immediate plan for increasing enrollment at the Medical School, it is probably possible to raise the number of students who come to Harvard after two years at another school. Harvard currently accepts students from Dartmouth and a few midwestern schools which have only two-year programs...