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Boasting that 80 percent of University cooks and waiters are now regular members of A. F. of L. locals 186 and 112, labor leaders admit, however, that they have been unable to reach an agreement with College authorities on either a closed or a preferential shop...
Although among cooks and waitresses 80 percent is considered a powerful enough majority to substantiate their present gains, authorities from local 112 indicated that the drive would not cease until employees were represented 100 percent...
Other fields showing substantial gains over last year are Chemistry, Engineering Sciences, Music, and Philosophy. A total of 1,260 students are now candidates for honors, an increase of almost 1 percent over last year...
Continuing the trend of increasing interest in the social sciences here, concentrators in History, Government, and Economics have climbed from 38.3 percent to 39.5 percent in the past year...
Once the most popular field, English has dropped to third place behind Economics and Government, failing from 25 percent in 1927 to 12.2 percent this year. Most striking gain in the past few years has been registered by the Department of Government, whose concentrators have more than doubled in five years. Social science concentrators as a whole have increased from 28 percent to 39.5 percent in the same period...