Word: emersons
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...Medical School has accepted 114 of this year's 1296 applicants, Kendall Emerson, Jr., Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Medicine announced yesterday. The number of applicants represents a negligible drop of 34 from last year's total...
...ratio between the number that applied and the number accepted is atypical of the national picture. Of 14,651 seniors from the entire nation who sought admission to medical schools last year, 7,703 were accepted. The final figures for this year are not known yet, but Emerson estimated that there will be a slight drop in the number of applicants, while the admissions total will remain the same...
...Emerson added that the slightly decreased number of applicants is indicative of a gradual leveling off of interest after the unusually great enthusiasm for study in medicine following World War II. He noted that interest in medicine is still 50 percent greater than it was in the pre-war period...
Asked to explain the School's criteria for admission, Emerson said yesterday that the ultimate decision is based on the admissions board's opinion of the prospective student's character and overall suitability for medicine. The Medical School admissions aptitude test and the student's academic grades, he added, serve only as a means to eliminate questionable applicants...
Next to the mischievous, Hollis has also housed some of the "greats" of Harvard. Among its alumni, the Hall can number Emerson, Thorean, Santayana, and President Eliot. But perhaps the best loved in the College was Charles T. Copeland, who as an instructor in English was one of the first faculty members to cultivate a wide undergraduate friendship. "Copey" kept open house Wednesday evening in Hollis 15 for many years. The most distinguished students, however, has passed almost unnoticed from College history; he had only one asset. His name was William Shake Speare...