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...confirm Pusey's fears about the fate of American universities which had always had "a peculiarly practical orientation," and "very little--perhaps too little--of the ivory tower." Harvard has hardly been an ivory tower these past few years. Its reliance on government funds (and more recently, with the Med School's Monsanto contract, on industrial funds) continues to increase. And its impact on government has been significant--Ford's administration is the first to have three former Harvard academics as cabinet members: Kissinger, Dunlop, and Schlesinger...
...from 19 per cent to 33 per cent over the past four years. Third world peoples have made gains from only token admissions in 1968 to 20 per cent this past year. Yet these changes in female and minority admissions are not changing the class divisions in medicine. Harvard Med has 71 per cent from the upper middle class last year. An analysis by Dr. Navarro (New England Journal of Medicine, Feb. 20) has shown the upper middle class male compsoition (93.1 per cent) of doctors in medicine similar to the rest of corporate and professional America. Yet the working...
...eyes of the University it has been an extra-curricular interest. When she entered Radcliffe as a freshman she was unsure what the nature of her commitment to music would be. "The main idea I was toying with was to be a music major and a pre-med." Her freshman year she took Music 51, the general theory course for music concentrators, from F. John Adams. It turned out to be "pretty much of a bomb." "Adams has a fantastic ear, he can hear anything," but he was impatient with students who did not have the same ability. The course...
After Krag decided not to concentrate in music, she did a short stint in anthropology and then, at the end of her sophomore year, switched into the biology department. Being a pre-med and a musician doesn't seem to cause any internal conflicts--she grew up with both interests and has always pursued them simultaneously. "When I was little I always wanted to be a vet," she says, and that desire, at some point, changed into a desire to be a doctor. She thinks now that she'd like to be a general practitioner or a gynecologist and obstetrician...
...THERE is no logic to the Rosenfeld case in a framework of traditional values, that may be because the organization of scientific research and development in this country isn't exactly logical. Some Harvard administrators attributed his "ill logic" in the recommendations forgeries to the pressures of the pre-med syndrome; some of his friends chalked it up to a success-oriented family background; some of his teachers and fellow students in the Bio Labs, and even Rosenfeld himself, blamed the cumulative effect of spending endless hours in the laboratory and classroom...