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...preclinical years cover normal and abnormal biology in a logical sequence. As an HMS-1, you study gross and microscopic anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry along with just a smidgin' of psychology. (Most aspiring psychiatrists feel cheated throughout their "undergraduate" years at the Medical School.) All of these courses demand your presence in long lectures and labs, two educational devices of questionable value in which Harvard has unending faith. Small-group instruction, when available, is usually effective; lectures, on the other hand, tend to obscure general principles of their subject and confuse students with welters of detail. In general, professors...
...indicate domination of all Communism. The communiqué's talk of "working to remove obstacles" suggested that obstacles are still there. Obviously, Tito is not lightly going to surrender any of his nine-year-old independence; just as obviously, he is still a Communist. There was perhaps a smidgin of truth in a Russian commentator's remark: "The common objectives and tasks of our two countries are greater than our differences...
Last week 30 of the 58 trustees* of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc. met with the President for the first time to tell him just how their program would work. It contained a dash of Rhodes, a smidgin of Fulbright and a seasoning of Point Four. Its object: to train "rising young leaders" in non-Communist nations to help solve their countries' most urgent social and economic problems...
...President regained his voice and some of his normal good humor at Los Angeles. He had a smidgin of good news. The Gallup Poll showed him way ahead in Minnesota and edging up in California...