Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Committee on Admissions is conscious of the fact that many men who apply to a medical school are interest primarily in the money, or have been brow-beaten into the profession by socially-conscious parents...
...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...
...students themselves have about as desirable living conditions as those of any school or graduate school in the country. About 325 of the 544 men live across the street from the School in the comfortable Vanderbilt Hall, donated by Harold Vanderbilt '07. The 800 faculty members and 31 women students have to provide their own quarters...
Despite popular opinion, most Medical School men do not think that they work very hard. Class attendance is not compulsory, but nearness to the lecture halls makes it relatively habitual. No grades are given until after the National Board exams after graduation, and a very small fraction of men is ever informed that its work is unsatisfactory. Time and duration of work in laboratories is left more or less to the disgression of the individual...
Obviously, however, Harvard would never let its Medical School get too far into financial trouble, and the school faces rather another problem--that of keeping up the highest standards of education while trying to do its part in meeting the annual need for more and more doctors...