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Reading period--the mere mention of the phrase conjures up images of pre-med students bent over chemistry texts in Cabot Library cubicles, seniors' tanning in the MAC Quad and first-years sprinting across the Yard at 4:53 p.m. to hand in that last Expos paper...
...unwanted stepchild of the Harvard curriculum. Ask a Chemistry concentrator if Economics is a science and you will often get an emphatic no; ask a History and Literature concentrator if it falls under the rubric of the humanities and they too are likely to reply in the negative. Pre-meds who are not also science majors also straddle the dividing line between the two camps. However, they, too, seem to suffer the penalty for dividing their loyalties; their professors and classmates in the sciences often see them as mercenary sorts not committed to the subject matter, while more purely artistic...
Geesaman and Kerri H. Armon, a first-year HMS student and Leverett House adviser, also attribute the students' good luck to the unique system for writing letters of recommendation for pre-med students that Harvard maintains...
...letter is written objectively by people on the House pre-med adviser committee, who are members of the medical profession...
...seal of approval is given by the signatures, which may include those of the pre-med adviser, senior tutor and house master...