Word: system
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because he fears the "uncertainties" of the future of medical care, C. N. Hugh Long, dean of the Yale Medical School, came out this week for a widely-revised medical education system as the alternative to "vast health insurance plans...
Long would like to see a medical education system so arranged that students from liberal-arts colleges would be taken into medical school at the end of their sophomore year. "Some exceptional students might even he admitted upon graduation from high school," Long said...
After further completing the final two years of the medical school program as it now exists, the student would receive his M.D. degre a year sooner than under the present system and three years sooner if he entered the program directly from high school...
...Newfoundland. The Mystic River Iron Works now produces 500 tons of pig iron daily from the Newfoundland ore. But the Belle Isle vein is not as rich as the ones in Labrador; thus, the further expansion of the New England steel industry will have to wait until a transportation system is established through the Canadian hinterland. Though a truck road now cuts across Labrador, it will be a few years before a railroad is built. One plan sees the beginning of work on a 360-mile rail line by next summer. The actual mining operations in Labrador are being financed...
Commenting on the purchase-card system at the request of Allen E. Kline '50, chairman of the purchase committee, Harris, who said he was speaking "as an economist who has some interest in the problem of financing higher education," stated that payment of college costs is "a great burden" on the average American family...