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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: By Henry Gritt, | Title: Changing Chapel | 3/15/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pre-Med Overspecialization | 3/12/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School Admission Will Grow Harder, Emerson Says | 2/24/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutors Deny That Pre-Med Students Get Wrong Advice | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutors Deny That Pre-Med Students Get Wrong Advice | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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