A. Lawrence Bennett Oral History

Transcript: "We had the experience during the war of receiving students that were handed to us by the military and this was another experience that I don’t know that we would want to repeat. For one thing, the curriculum was speeded up, we were teaching “around the clock” or “around the calendar" and the faculty and students became thoroughly tired just with the continuous program. There was an interesting aspect, however, of the time that we received students handed to us from the Army because although in general, the quality of students was lower, there were some exceptional students that were handed to us by the military who had no intention of going into medicine, but when they got into medicine, found a real love of the subject and made exceptional students. So, it was an interesting time."

Bennett Short

From the McGoogan Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives