Word: culver
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Candidates for admission to medical schools need "more than a superficial knowledge of the sciences," Dr. Perry J. Culver '37, chairman of the committee of admissions of the Harvard Medical School said Wednesday...
...what he termed "a policy statement of the medical school," Culver stressed the importance of a strong science back-ground for every college graduate, particularly those interested in a medical career...
...Culver added that he was in complete agreement with statements made by William Barry Wood '32, chairman of the microbiology department at John Hopkins, at Dunster House...
...However, Culver stressed that the pre-medical student should get a liberal education. He feared that among pre-meds the tendency is to become technicians. This is particularly true, he observed, at those colleges that have a set pre-medical curriculum...
...Lawrenceville, in New Jersey, tackles size with a house system that keeps same-age students together for eating, sleeping, studying. Tuition hits $3,000 a year, but boys easily slide into Princeton, where Lawrenceville has more freshmen than any other school. Bigness is solved at Indiana's Culver Military Academy (840 boys), now a topkick prep school, by insisting that "discipline is essential to the learning process...