Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admit students to the school of medicine after only two years of undergraduate work, during which time they need take no premedical courses except elementary biology and chemistry. ¶ In the first year of medical school, combine premedical subjects with regular college subjects (including the humanities), the latter to be taken at the Johns Hopkins liberal arts campus. ¶1ntroduce anatomy (now almost universally taught in first-year med courses) in the second year, along with biochemistry, physiology and medical psychology. Required concurrently: anthropology and social psychology. The third year would be similar but more advanced; at its end, students...
...their alma mater. Musicomedy Librettist Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner ('40) and Master-of-Most-Musical-Trades Leonard Bernstein ('39) had cooked up a lugubrious ("Harvard! Harvard! Onward go . . .") Dedication and a satirical, possibly soulful, ditty titled The Lonely Men of Harvard. Excerpt from the latter...
...addition to the reduced, more intensive, course load, an immediately appealing advantage of the three term system is the separation of the terms by the summer, Christmas, and spring vacations. This plan removes unheeded pressure from the latter two vacations and leaves them free to be the periods of independent study they should be as well as lending a greater sense of continuity and meaning to the coursework...
This system has operated for ten years now and has worked out to the mutual satisfaction of both the NCAA and the Broadmoor. The former is happy to have someone finance the tournament in such grand style, and the latter cheerfully picks up the tab in return for all the publicity that this tournament offers...
...Connelly calls "One of the best jobs of fire-fighting I've ever seen. If men hadn't been willing to risk their lives, we would not have prevented the complete loss of the building." Other large recent Harvard fires have been those in the Union and Claverly, the latter made famous by Confidential Magazine last summer...