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Show 8 - initiate a new curriculum combining medical training with the other disciplines not normally featured in a medical school. This program has attracted national attention and has brought already to the University distinguished new members to the faculty. Dr. Liederberg is a Nobel Prize winner and considered one of the leading men in the field of biology and genetics. Also new to the campus is the outstanding research team headed by Dr. Kornberg in the field of bio-chemistry. Also in the field of biophysics Stanford is making its mark. Distinguished appointments to the faculty such as these in the Medical School, strengthen not only the Medical School but also the related disciplines which are the heart of our University program. The School of Humanities and Sciences still trains the greatest number of students. It is unfortunate that it has not received the outside financial support that it deserves, for it is easier to attract funds to some of the more scientifically oriented activities. Yet, educators, particularly at the graduate level, increasingly recognize the importance of specialists being soundly grounded in these basic disciplines taught by the Humanities. Stanford was fortunate two years ago to add to its faculty Dr. Phillip Rhinelander, an outstanding man from Harvard who serves as the School of Humanities and who has managed to strengthen the school, and to provide more depth for the young men and women in their first years of Stanford in a new general studies program. I would like to make special mention of the new Dean of the Business School, Ernie Arbuckle, not because he is here but because he deserves it. I can really only qualify as an expert on one subject and that subject is Ernie Arbuckle. I have lived with him, worked with him, served in the Navy with him, and I have enough on him, which, if communicated to Dean Winbigler and in the absence of the statute of limitations, would cause the Dean of Students to ask Ernie to join some of our more enthusiastic students who have been invited to |