Word: uhse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of these hopefuls still have to take that one-year requirement. Though they try to persuade Kenneth T. Dinklage, psychologist to UHS, that their low aptitude and hatred of languages constitutes a psychological barrier they cannot possibly surmount, Dinklage generally tells them politely that they are stuck. These several...
Dinklage is the only UHS psychologist who interviews students for language disability, and he says the number of students visiting him every year remains fairly stable. "Some of them try to act dyslexic. But essentially that would involve lying to an officer of the University. Most freshmen are trying to...
UHS will give no tests for mathematical disabilities when math courses are required under the Core Curriculum, Dinklage says. But Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, says the Math Department hasn't yet faced the question of dealing with students with mathematical disabilities, since the Core...
Dr. Paul A. Walters. Jr. chief of Mental Health Services (MHS) at the University Health Services (UHS), prides himself on his awareness of the little things that go on around the college. "Students don't usually think much about it," the 20 year Harvard veteran tells you in what remains...
Not surprisingly, Walters has dealt with more than a few cases where students expressed suicidal tendencies. While he and other college health officials are reluctant to release actual figures, he says that the number of suicides a year at Harvard is almost negligible. Because there are so few cases, UHS...