Word: med
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gradually, the science departments escaped to more spacious quarters, and Holden became a medical museum. But the collection of skeletons was far too tempting and the building too easily plundered. Midnight raids and subsequent wall displays of skulls and thigh bones became a mid-century tradition. The notorious Med. Fac. has been traced back to these raids. This addition to undergraduate nihilism rounded out Holden's nineteenth century innovations...
...members of the College Class of '52 who applied to medical school, said Leighton, 86 per cent of those who had been pre-med majors were accepted, as compared to '74, percent of those who had concentrated in the 16 non-scientific fields...
This effort probably exhausted the patriotic group for the soon faded away to be replaced in the middle of the century by the nortorions "Med. Fac.," a secret society famed for its violent initiations. The College put up with the society until it sent a bogus diploma to the Czar of Russia, reaping a handsome gift in return. Lingering on despite administrative wrath, the Society continued to be happily destructive until the turn of the century, when its nihilistic bent culminated in the blowing up of the old College pump in front of Hollis...
...self-respect goes down, and in the end he drops the rich practice and the rich girl (Lizabeth Scott) who goes with it, heads back to the mining town-or is it the sexy nurse (Dianne Foster)?-that really needs him. Dr. Heston treats his patients with a pre-med manner of such overbearing superiority that he makes the saving of a man's life seem a kind of insult...
Olivetti's workers in Ivrea get low-cost meals in a company cafeteria, free med ical care, have summer camps and a kindergarten for their children. A substantial number (15%) live in trim, modern Olivetti housing projects; their wages (average: $80 a month), while low by U.S. standards, are among the highest in Italian industry...