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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Reuther's labor-management committees proved successful in converting the automobile industry into defense plants, Philip Murray has been plugging to have the same system used in all defense industries. And, on March 2, Donald Nelson said we would have to raise our war output 25 per cent, and that he favored the Murray plan as one way to do it. Then, on March 8, management got its chance to kill the Murray plan. On that day, the New Jersey CIO declared that the Jersey war plants were utilizing "only 49 per cent of their productive capacity," mainly...
With 90 per cent of the field's Juniors registered as candidates for honors each year, the problem of divisionals has necessitated radical changes. The qualifying divisional for Juniors seeking honors has been entirely abandoned and concentrators will write their honors theses before taking a lone divisional at the climax of their College career. The entire emphasis will be to maintain the quality of the work in the past, even at the expense of the quantity accomplished. Students going through in four years will still be able to follow the old course of study...
Enrollment in Spanish has jumped between 30 and 40 per cent; and, at the same time, Italian has fallen off sharply in a nation-wide reaction to world affairs. In tune with these adjustments, the department will offer intensive courses in Spanish, French, and Portuguese this summer. The Romance Faculty has lost several of its younger men but the permanent staff remains intact at the moment...
Last year the department's 20 students were almost entirely graduates of whom 75 per cent are now gone. Undergraduates took little more than the Far Eastern history courses. Today, there are only four candidates for the Ph.D. degree while about 100 undergraduates are taking courses, twice as many as in the fall. Chief attraction is Japanese 6b, the intensive eight-hour a week course, which prepares men for intelligence work...
...decline in interest in humanities is sharper than the overall figures would indicate. If such elementary or prescribed courses such as English A, German A, or Spanish 1 were not included, the remaining subjects in the area would show a drastic decline in enrollment amounting to nearly 15 per cent...