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...medical school in the United States to implement these curricular changes, which set the standard for medical education both at home and abroad.While instituting radical reforms, Tosteson maintained a strong rapport with the Medical School faculty—not all of whom initially embraced his vision for the Medical School??s future.“He was a man of great courage to institute a completely new approach to medical education,” Wetzel said, recalling that some professors were skeptical of students’ ability to acquire all the knowledge they would need in fewer hours...
...house mother was wonderful and sweet,” Mary C. Swope ’59 (originally Mary G. Carlton) said. “We got milk and cookies if we weren’t going out on the weekends.”Though the school??s parietal rules could limit participation in late night extracurricular activities, some women were able to use the curfew to their advantage.“As freshmen, we were allowed to go out something like 21 times until 1:00 a.m. for the first semester,” Jean P. McNeal...
...curricular changes tested educational approaches to artistic creativity, some students feared that the school??s commitment to a well-rounded education would compromise their ability to make art. “When an institution begins to encourage artistic activity, it encourages amateurs. If you really want to create, you do it on your own,” said Shimizu...
...scene will stand in stark contrast to one of my first experiences as a Crimson reporter. In December 2005, I sat in Harvard Law School??s Harkness Commons as a group of law students listened to an audio stream of oral arguments before the Supreme Court. That case was about whether universities could bar the military from their campuses and still receive federal money. Needless to say, everyone at Harvard thought the answer was yes. When, a couple months later, the court delivered its own answer (an emphatic no), I wrote a second raft of stories in which...
...even those who remain opposed to the military are far more moderate in their approach than their counterparts of a generation past. During one of its principal demonstrations against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, the Law School??s gay-rights organization confined itself to placing pink soldiers on students’ desks and asking students and faculty to write letters to Congress. When I asked one of the organizers if his group planned to confront military recruiters when they arrived on campus—something...