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...Author Dean K. Whitla, director of Harvard's office of tests: "It would be regrettable if some of our students who plan to become doctors felt that they must turn away from their interest in the liberal arts for fear of being rejected at medical school without a premedical major." Surprise of the study: at Harvard Medical School, premed-prepared students do better the first year, but by the third year they fall slightly behind students who majored in the social sciences...
As a result of increased high school math and science, Conant said, the premed student "could be examined in the sciences by the end of the freshman year, and be freed of further course requirements in science."
Shapely Tenley Albright, 21, once a polio victim, now Olympic figure-skating champion (first U.S. woman to win that laurel), announced her withdrawal from rink competition. After only three years as a brilliant premed student at Radcliffe college, Skater Albright has been accepted by Harvard Medical School, will enter it...
"He told me just how to proceed,'' says Mellon. "He advised me what subjects to take in medical school. He said not to study tropical medicine, that if I came there he could teach me more tropical medicine in a week than I could learn in school in...
Gary E. Gathman--Lowell House; Chairman, Lowell House Committee; Premed Club; P.B.H.; Mental Hospital Committee; German Club; House Chr. Combined Charities Dr.