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students. During that year there were 19 students who hoped to continue into medicine or dentistry, but the hope of obtaining admissions was limited to four or five at Dalhousie University. This was incentive enough to aim for the top, or get discouraged by the reports issued far too . frequently on the borderline board. I still recall my sinking ‘ feelings when I rushed down to the college to see the standing in the class, as there was another S. MacDonald student in fourth year. The names were well spaced, and I wondered which was mine, until I received my marks for the month - that was the last year that Latin was necessary for a pass. I was glad that I had done my Latin in third year I am pleased to report that I finished with a tie for third highest in the year and got a split of the $25.00 prize, but that $12.50 meant a lot, in more ways than one in my poor financial position. This also meant that I came first in the pre-med class, as the other ones ahead of me were Arts students. As I study the Journal, I note that Dalhousie took seven of the Honour students to study medicine, and three dental students. That was much higher than the projected four or five. It appeared that there were over 500 applications for medical school that year. Three had been chosen from Prince of Wales College and they revised the numbers, due to the high marks of the Prince of Wales College students, all chosen being veterans. It is no doubt that the experience of war training, travel, etc., helped the veterans to settle down. I enjoyed my four years in Prince of Wales College. They were all different as they did not follow consecutively. My first year I barely passed my Grade X exam, with just 50% at the bottom of the reported list. However, I was extremely pleased to know that I made 50% and did not have to write a supplementary, as I had

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