Word: factors
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There is another factor also: the attitude of medical schools towards applicants who have themselves had treatment. Many schools ask outright on their application forms. What effect this has on a student's chances varies with the school; but nowhere, certainly, does a record of psychiatric consultation help a candidate...
...those interested in prestige, a much more important factor to a medical career is the hospital in which a doctor takes his residency. As a matter of fact, in order to advance in the academic branched of medicine, a doctor needs to have taken his residency in a University hospital. Anyone who does well in any medical school has reasonable hopes for such a residency. If a graduate has done poorly in a prestige school, he is not apt to gain such a residency...
Police stated that drinking was not a factor in the accident...
Even an old-math mind can roughly multiply millions of teen-agers by the factor of better-trained intelligence and surmise that the next generations of Americans will look a lot smarter than the past. It will have to; a recent N.E.A. publication notes that "the first doubling of knowledge occurred in 1750, the second in 1900, the third in 1950, and the fourth only ten years later." The fifth and sixth, if the plot line holds its course, are close at hand. Teen-agers today do not think of themselves as "knights in shining chinos" riding forth on rockets...
Take Professor Robert Braucher of the Law School, for instance. Always a major factor in the tournament, he mauled a hapless student, 3-0, in his first round match last Saturday. And George Siegel, professor of Russian Literature, gave the varsity's number eight man, Steve Simpson, his toughest competition of the season before bowing...