The entrants for 1960 to the then only Medical Faculty, in The University of Ceylon.

The batch intake for the Medical Faculty, was double the usual number. This was because the usual First MB in the Science Faculty was done away with. From the following year the Faculty of Medicine at Peradeniya would take half the batch. But this batch of 1960 in Colombo had to accomodate about 275 students. There was a question of accomodating this large crowd, in a single lecture lecture theatre, available at that time. The batch was divided into two and the lectures were repeated. An extra dissecting room called Dissecting room C, was opened. The canteen, rest rooms and libraries were filled to capacity.
In the first two weeks what with the freshers 'rag' and the general cluelessness regarding the lectures in Anatomy, Physiology and Bichemistry, life assumed a surreal quality. Quite a lot of us coming from the outstations did not know 'where we were going'. White shirts and trousers were the norm for the males. The females mostly wore the sedate sarees. Bright colours and moppy hair were a long way off. We were expected to conform to the norms of upper middle class society.
The female of the species was forbidden ground. Being too familiar with members of the opposite sex was more an adventure than an accepted norm.