Word: med
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Holden was the cradle of the Harvard Medical School. The College thus became a University, the chapel's first floor a laboratory (probably the nation's first) and the basement a storehouse for cadavers. When the Med school moved to Boston the bodies were raised to the first floor as a display. The dead left and the living entered Holden, now a dormitory, but not before human skulls and crossbones decorated many students' rooms...
...Severinghaus Committee officially summed up the trend two years ago when it concluded that "every student...should think of himself as a liberal arts student in search of a well-rounded education and should be treated as such." Medical schools, however, still continue practices which contribute directly to pre-Med overspecialization. A number of schools, for instance, issue lists of "highly recommended" courses beyond the minimum pre-medical science requirements. The result is often an unbalanced study program--many a pre-medical student regretfully decides that he must pass up a popular course in literature or another area...
...makes to difference what an applicant's field of concentration is as an undergraduate, Emerson added, provided that he has met the basic pre-med requirements. Thirty percent of the applicants for the Medical School this year were non-science majors in college and their qualifications were "equal in every respect to those who concentrated in the sciences...
...John T. Edsall '23, Chairman of the Board of Tutors in Biochemical Sciences, said that often there is not time for a pre-med to major in a field outside the sciences, even though the medical school wants "diversity of opinion...
...rebuttals to accusations by Dr. Daniel H. Funkenstein, a member of the Committee on Admissions of the school, that students were being misled about pre-med qualifications, the two advisers said that prospective medical students are not being told definitely to major in science, but nevertheless many are forced...