Word: hms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admitted to the School from Harvard, do not expect to keep up the old Cambridge life that so many find delightful. When you enter as a first-year student (or an "HMS-1" as you will be known), you will find most of your day taken up by lectures and laboratories. Probably, you will live in Vanderbilt Hall, an enormous dormitory, done up outside as a sort of Spanish palace. It sports Boston's most elegant address--1007 Avenue Louis Pasteur. Regrettably, elegance vanishes a few steps beyond the front door: the hallways are done up as a sort...
...preclinical years cover normal and abnormal biology in a logical sequence. As an HMS-1, you study gross and microscopic anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry along with just a smidgin' of psychology. (Most aspiring psychiatrists feel cheated throughout their "undergraduate" years at the Medical School.) All of these courses demand your presence in long lectures and labs, two educational devices of questionable value in which Harvard has unending faith. Small-group instruction, when available, is usually effective; lectures, on the other hand, tend to obscure general principles of their subject and confuse students with welters of detail. In general, professors...
...international reputation of the Harvard Summer School gained a new twist at the week's end. Received by the "Social Secretary" of that institution was a communique from Able Seamen Canning, Scott, and Smith of HMS Barnard at Greenoch, Scotland, asking consorts for future group maneuvers in North Atlantic waters...