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TIME'S interesting article on Dartmouth [Nov. 23] states that Dartmouth's two-year medical school "sends most of its students on to fill the vacancies created by flunk-outs at Harvard's four-year school."
Flunk-outs at the Harvard Medical School are extremely rare: only 14 during the past 14 years—substantially less than 1% per year. Harvard's extensive hospital facilities for clinical teaching during the last two years of medical study make it possible to accept a large number of qualified students from the nation's two-year medical schools. We are pleased that Dartmouth's students elect to apply in large numbers to the Harvard Medical School for opportunities to complete their medical education.
GEORGE P. BERRY, M.D.
Dean
The Faculty of Medicine
Harvard University
Boston
Central Heating & England
Sir:
Re your article on the customary lack of heat in British homes [Nov. 16]:
I just must put down my hot-water bottle long enough to thank you for backing up my stories to the folks back home. Last winter I did my cooking in a parka and snow boots. Our English friends find me quite spineless.
The closest I have come to bedtime glamour in England is to dye my long Johns passionate purple.
HELEN BAUMAN
Cheltenham, England
Sir:
Your always apropos articles seemed even more so this morning as I stepped out in the 39° weather to collect the milk and returned to my 45° kitchen to prepare breakfast.
Being a Texan, I find our two-year-old modern home in Great Britain not very much so, but in defiance I still hop between the icy sheets in my Neiman-Marcus sheer nighties. (MRS.) NANCY BECKNER Swansea, Wales
Sir:
No, no, no. We British do not put our toast in racks to "cool it off fast." Why, some of our toast racks even have a heating unit underneath to keep the toast hot. We put our toast in racks to let the steam out and thus keep it crisp.
The much-loved American breakfast toast —limp and soggy—we find rather repellent. BETTY L. GARDNER Halifax, N.S.