Word: med
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this time the usual attrition processes have failed; most of those freshmen pre-meds are still with it. Add to them the number who normally decide, while here, to go into medicine, and you have about 225. Stack on top of that about 50 who have felt the zeitgeist, in the person of affable General Hershey, breathing down their necks, and you have 275. Since it usually takes at least two years to finish the pre-med requirements, the full impact of revoking other graduate school deferments could not be felt until this year...
...course, the instant pre-med is hardly a phenomenon restricted to Harvard College. It may not be, proportionally, so large at other colleges, but it is substantial enough that house pre-med advisors are telling strong candidates to apply to a dozen schools (at $10 to $20 a crack)--and weak candidates to pray...
...skills he must have to be a good Army officer"--again evoking Sears Roebuck management training rather than a college. Twice, in fact, Pell weakens his case by comparing ROTC to other professional disciplines--medicine, law, and business--which Harvard, except for a handful of accounting, engineering, and pre-med courses, has kept out of its undergraduate program...
...opposition candidates feel that their new majority on the Coop board could be most effective. As Profit puts it, "We believe that business today should have a social conscience." The Coop's financial structure puts severe limitations on any investments. Necessary expansion in the bookstore annex and the new Med School Coop have caused the Coop to be debt financed by the Harvard Trust Company. One of the terms of the present loan agreement is that, "The Company will not, directly or indirectly, make any investments in the stock, securities or other obligations of any other person, firm, or corporation...
...particularly concerned with the basic policy question of ROTC's privileged pre-professional status. Currently, undergraduates may take essentially vocational ROTC courses but are prohibited from enrolling in courses at the med, ed, law, divinity, and business schools. A discussion of ROTC is on the agenda for Wednesday's HPC meeting...