Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the third year of mid-year pre-unions at the University. The increasing popularity of this "serious" type of reunion proves that all alumni gatherings do not have to be the "racooon cost" kind, Pratt commented...
Another Democratic difficulty hangs on the high probability of Eisenhower's candidacy. By this time in a pre-election year, half a dozen candidates are usually sharpening their spikes for the nomination race. But among the Democratic possibilities for 1956, Adlai Stevenson is so far out in front that few have a serious desire to challenge him. Estes Kefauver, of course, wore his spikes blunt long since, but is still running. As for Averell Harriman, any Governor of New York occupies a strong intraparty bargaining position and must make noises like a presidential candidate...
...chief and possibly fatal weakness in the organization of the Presidium is the lack of a pre-determined method of succession to power, he continued. While such a situation appears to invite dissension, Berman reminded his audience that the majority of Presidium members have held their posts for 15 years or more...
...past few years, the attitude of the nation's medical schools toward potential applicants has shown a pronounced shift in emphasis. Admissions committees now enthusiastically urge pre-medical students to acquire a "liberal education" in their undergraduate years, in addition to meeting the regular pre-medical science requirements. After studying the problem of pre-medical education, the 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...
...would be unfair to lay all the blame for the over-specialization of pre-medical students on the medical schools, for the students themselves are usually partly at faulty. There is no reason, however, for the schools to add to the confusion. Instead of implying that there is no limit to the number of science courses that pre-medical students should take, the schools should set up a fixed minimum standard of admissions requirements and maintain...