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...Sufficient ground for acceptance," the Council felt, was evidenced by the recent student balloting in which 90 percent of those casting votes were in favor of the revised constitution...
...Unless at least 25 percent of the House members are present at the meetings, the new constitution provides for the use of nomination committees. House elections are scheduled for the first week in March...
Business and medicine, which rank highest in undergraduate and graduate tastes, show the only sizeable changes. Eleven percent of Grant Study Sophomores and present Yard residents signified that they were headed for a commercial vocation, but 30 percent of those same sophomores are now in business careers. A somewhat smaller increase was also shown for medicine...
...numbers of instructors to give department heads quality as well as quantity to choose from. With this prospect within view, relatively few of the departments have made any attempt to alter their budgets to absorb this new strength. In the Social Sciences, Government still offers tutorial to that 25 percent who are candidates for honors; History has not budged from its original stand, and Economics offers no tutorial but merely a makeshift arrangement for thesis consultation. More disconcerting than this present indifference is the lack of interest exhibited by the Social Sciences, as well as such fields as English...
...Council majority pointed to the fact that 60 percent of the resident population of the College had voted and that most of the residents favored adoption of the new document. They emphasized that only the poor turnout at Dudley Commuters center -- whose 47 voters nevertheless registered a unanimous "yes"--and the large numbers of unavailable non-residents kept the favorable proportions of the vote from appearing in expected numbers...