Word: meds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boys in Med. Incline...
Students who concentrate in the social sciences do better in medical school after the first year than their fellows who major in "pre-med" studies, a study of 1,390 Harvard College graduates shows...
...Bury Yourself." Fortnight ago, Johnny Pierce called on a friend, Chiropractor Harold D. Harrington, and told him that he had spilled cobalt 60 on his hands. Harrington told him to go straight to the hospital for a check. Instead, Johnny called on a pre-med student for advice. Says Classmate Douglas Thornton: "I thought he was kidding. I said: 'Bury yourself.' " The two went to a motel, where Johnny took a brisk shower. Hospital officials later found Johnny in a drugstore, called in AEC and U.S. Public Health Service officials...
...med sophomores could know one or two years in advance whether they would gain admission to medical school, he said, they could be free to get a broad general education in college...
Wilson, on the other hand underlined the need for such pre-med specialization in Biology, which is more important to a doctor than Physics. A more general biology course before Medical School is not the purpose of the substitution, he explained. Many students become pre-meds after taking Nat. Sci. 8. It is to prevent unnecessary repetition of material that the allowance is being made, he said...