Word: second-year
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...January of 1966, twenty-five second-year students at Harvard Medical School, frustrated by the lecture system which makes up the bulk of the second year curriculum, petitioned their dean for the privilege of studying the course material independently. Dean Ebert granted the petition, though the number of actual participants dropped from twenty-five to five. Those five still feel that the experiment was a personal success, although they may have scored lower on the minutely detailed final exams than did the bulk of their class...
...center of this curriculum stands the policy conference--a real test of a student's political drive. "I wanted to be left alone to read for two years--but the school wouldn't leave me alone," says an understandably dissatisfied second-year graduate student who briefly held a government job before coming to Princeton. "I came here to get away from games," he explains, "and I'm certainly not going to play them when they're not even for real...
That's 16 courses in two years and scores of well-researched, often lengthy, always demanding papers. "You come here from college expecting paradise," says one second-year student, "but it's just more college...
...series of proposals to de-emphasize grades and stress "non-graded aspects" of the Law School has been submitted to the newly-created joint student-Faculty committee by two second-year students...
Schlesinger and Samuels, along with several other second-year students, have been meeting with Faculty members this Fall to sound out sentiment for reform at the law School. Many of their proposals, reportedly, have been well received by some Faculty members...