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Although this is certainly not an unusual method of medical instruction, Harvard Medical students have an almost unrivalled opportunity to secure a well-organized clinical experience and knowledge of disease. A large number of cases in four major hospitals are available for student work--Massachusetts General, Boston City, Peter Bent Brigham, and Beth Israel. In addition, cases are used for teaching in nine specialist hospitals...
While they must be consciously on the watch for applicants not interested in medicine per se, members of the committee admit that many a brow-beaten or financially-minded youth has, in four years, developed a fanatic devotion to the profession. At the same time, they state from experience that quite often it is not the most brilliant college men who do the best work in the School...
While the men take their courses and careers seriously, ther is a certain amount of joking connected with the medical profession which grows more perverted with each succeeding year of study. In anatomy classes the cadavers--one to each four men--are sometimes tagged with pet names and often are fondly discussed in the midst of an otherwise normal social conversation. A favorite name for a corpse is "Ernest," so that a student can inform his friends that he is "working in dead Ernest...
...under President Charles William Eliot, another great expansion was prepared and plans were drawn up for the present buildings on Longwood Avenue at the head of Avenue Louis Pasteur. The cost of land, construction, furnishing, and providing a suitable endowment for the four laboratory buildings and one administration hall was estimated at $5,000,000. Money poured in generously, with large donations from John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, David Spears '74, Collis P. Huntington, and other individuals and groups...
...shots by Smith gave the Crimson a 7 to 3 lead after four minutes of play. This was Harvard's high point of the evening. For the remainder of the half the Crimson managed to score nine more points while the home team racked...