Word: meds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, has named a 12-man committee to implement the Med School Faculty's recent resolution aimed at increasing the number of Negro medical students in the University...
Meanwhile, last week, large numbers of Columbia students attended four-hour "make-up" lectures and studied for examinations, even though "formal classes" were cancelled over a week ago. Explained one student: "A 'pass" isn't going to get me into Med School...
...evening I walk into a room where there is a poetry reading. I don't want to be rude so I stay. A med student who looks like Dr. Kildare reads a poem entitled "Ode to Mickey Mantle's Five-hundredth...
...Faculty members down to the Houses where they could get to know some students might take some of the pressure of writing recommendations off the Masters and Senior Tutors. But since that itself is so difficult a number of more immediate expedients are being discussed. Some Houses get pre-med and even pre-law advisors to help share the paper work burden, others find that men with no function but recommendation-writing have a hard time finding a place in the House. A couple of Houses have asked for an extra Assistant Senior Tutor on 1/5 time to process applications...
...Med School proposal follows similar announcements from the School of Education, which is completing a recruiting drive, and the Law School, which will offer a summer program for forty black students...