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...student of Levin and later a section man in his course on the Elizabethan drama, before leaving Cambridge to write the play. And Levin still remembers the day Robert Lowell, then a freshman in the College, came to him for advice as to whether or not he should transfer to Kenyon and John Crowe Ransom (which he eventually did). "The secret of advice," said Levin in commenting on Lowell's subsequent success, is simply to find out what a person really wants to do, and then to encourage him to go ahead...
...Medical School may expand its third-year program next year by accepting more transfer students from Yale and Dartmouth Medical Schools, Henry C. Meadow, assistant dean of the school, said yesterday...
...arrangement whereby students would study for the first two years at another medical school and then transfer to Harvard "is under discussion," Meadow said. No substantial increase, however, in the number of first-year students is planned, he added...
...There is room for growth during the two upperclass years," Meadow explained, "chiefly because there is ample clinical space in the Boston hospitals, where upperclassmen do most of their work." At present the school takes on an additional 15 transfer students for the last two years, Meadow said, but it could take on more...
...piston engine," a combination of the piston engine and turbine. The idea of the engine is old, but only recently have automakers been able to eliminate many of the bugs. In the present engine, the pistons turn the crankshaft as the explosions in the cylinders drive them down, thus transfer power to the transmission and move the car. In the free-piston engine, there is no crankshaft. Instead, there are two pistons, at opposing ends of the cylinder, which force gas at tremendously high pressure into a turbine. The turbine, in turn, transmits power to the wheels through a simplified...