Word: ebert
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When Dr. Robert H. Ebert was 50 years old and at the peak of a distinguished career in academic medicine and hospital administration in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1964, he left the midwest and came east, to Harvard...
...came partly, I suppose, because it was Harvard," Ebert explained yesterday. "But the major reason that I came was that while I felt that there was a lot of inertia at Harvard, and that it would never change very rapidly, I felt that it wasn't afraid of change--much less so than other institutions...
...Ebert became dean of the Medical School one year after his arrival, and succeeded with programs at Harvard where he had been frustrated at Case Western Reserve University. Ebert, who will resign the deanship in July 1977, fulfills a certain Harvard myth: Harvard as an academic mecca...
...What Ebert calls his greatest accomplishment at Harvard is the establishment in 1969 of the Harvard Community Health Plan, a pre-paid hospital care service administered by the University. He volunteered the same type of project in Cleveland and was rejected. Ebert refers proudly now to the list of similar plans the Harvard program has since inspired...
Several students and faculty members of the Medical School yesterday criticized findings of the Admissions Review Committee, established by Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, to study the admissions process...