Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE are a lot of us this year. John B. Fox, of OG&CP, estimates that some 275 Harvard seniors are applying to medical schools, an increase of 100 from last year. Normally, about 150 freshmen enter as pre-meds, about half have their minds changed, and drop out, but are replaced by an equal number who have the opposite change of heart. So, normally about 150 go to medical school...
...this time the usual attrition processes have failed; most of those freshmen pre-meds are still with it. Add to them the number who normally decide, while here, to go into medicine, and you have about 225. Stack on top of that about 50 who have felt the zeitgeist, in the person of affable General Hershey, breathing down their necks, and you have 275. Since it usually takes at least two years to finish the pre-med requirements, the full impact of revoking other graduate school deferments could not be felt until this year...
...course, the instant pre-med is hardly a phenomenon restricted to Harvard College. It may not be, proportionally, so large at other colleges, but it is substantial enough that house pre-med advisors are telling strong candidates to apply to a dozen schools (at $10 to $20 a crack)--and weak candidates to pray...
...their values, a personal account of what they loved most. Set down by Kate, this testament is liveliest when it reflects Marya Mannes' own penchant for high-class invective. During their sex talks, the painter howl-, "Don't tell me the sexual revolution was made by those pre-nubile, fur-bearing match-sticks...
...basis of comparative scores, the Tiger harriers are pre-meet favorites. All three teams have lost to Penn's outstanding squad, but Princeton's record is otherwise untarnished. Harvard and Yale have also dropped dual meets to Cornell and Dartmouth, respectively...