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...most popular courses are those that satisfy pre-med requirements, with Chemistry S-20, "Organic Chemistry," leading the pack with about 200 cut-throat competitors, many of them Harvard undergraduates who want to get it over within eight weeks. The male-female ratio is about one to one, as opposed to the College's 2.5 to 1--"another way we're ahead of the academic year," Crooks says...
...situation should be clearer in the fall. It's conceivable, but not likely, that the Med School workers will join the workers in Cambridge voluntarily to form a University-wide union or the University and the NLRB might force them into it. If the Med Schools workers unionize successfully, the feat would undoubtedly spur on the organizing move in Cambridge...
...person behind the unionization drive is Peter Van Delft, general organizer for the Distributive Workers. Van Delft started dealing with the Med School group in the fall, and is trying to organize clerical workers into the Distributive Workers' fledgling college division at the University of Chicago and several Ivy League schools. Van Delft is a veteran unionizer who is too crafty to reveal exactly the extent of his operations, but he has been spending much time lately flying around to various universities...
...secretary in the Physics Department went to one of Van Delft's meetings with the Med School workers this spring and first thought of doing something similar on this side of the river; she has since then conferred with other secretaries throughout the University about it, and says the drive is progressing well, if a little slowly...
...December confrontation, Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Med faculty, threatened the students with failures if they numbered their exams again. He told them that there were many other students, almost as eligible as they were, who would give their eye-teeth just to be at Harvard...