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...Freshmen entering last June who have already reported, 32, or 14 percent, enrolled in English or literature combinations, while Economics claims 13.6 percent with 31 concentrators. Comparison with selections of the Class of 1946, peak war group, is striking. This class leaned heavily toward the Bio-chemical Sciences, 18.4 percent of a cross-section of 245 Freshmen electing that field...
Biology, too, was hard hit by the trend now revealing itself, as in the two-year period it dropped more than 33 percent in undergraduate preferences. Chemistry, however, more than held its own, with Government, History, and the Classics attracting the same percentages in the Class of 1948 as they did in 1946. Economics, on the other hand, shows a better than two percent increase...
Encouraging as are the sings of an emergence from the heavy stress on sciences, comparison with 1932, a peacetime year selected at random, shows that the revival in liberal arts education still has far to go if it is ever to return to prewar proportions. A bare 15.4 percent of the Class of 1932 chose to major in the natural sciences, while an overwhelming 43.4 percent of the present Freshmen will concentrate in sciences of some sort...
Edstrom grants that "the Negro is still not a one hundred percent American citizen, although he has a lot of advantages which he never had before. His whole course has been upward and outward," he adds, however, "and no other race can show comparable progress...
...Seventy percent of the water in the lower Rio Grande originates in Mexico. She could dam up the tributaries, use the water on her own side of the border. But under the pending treaty Mexico agrees to give Texas approximately 800,000 acre-feet of water, keeping only about 600,000 acre-feet for herself...