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...with a large portion of the Gen Ed requirement. The Advanced Standing program, which this year involved 40 per cent of the freshman class, weakens Gen Ed still more by giving students college credit for subjects outside their field of concentration. The Freshman Seminar program, in which more than one-fourth of this year's freshmen were enrolled, further invades the province of General Education, often by exempting students from Gen Ed A, the English composition course. Then there are the Independent Study and House Seminar Programs, two non-departmental activities which were partially inspired by Gen Ed and fulfill...
...eastern corn-belt states were still another story. Michigan, Ohio. Illinois and Indiana cast about 300,000 votes, or one-fourth of the national total, and in each state the returns went lopsidedly against Freeman's proposals. In these states, the secret to successful farming is flexibility. Farmers there like to shift from crop to crop-mainly wheat, corn and soybeans-as prices and supply conditions change. But under Freeman's plan, a farmer's past wheat production would determine his marketing quota; farmers were apprehensive that establishing this wheat "history" would lock them into wheat production...
Langer, however, called the great bubonic plague epidemic, which in two years carried off one-third to one-fourth of Europe's population, "the greatest disaster that has ever overtaken mankind." He explained that this "disaster of the first magnitude must have had profound social effects...
Illinois has more national social fraternities (57) and sororities (27) than any other university in the country. They are privately owned, usually provide both meals and lodging for their members, and although only about one-fourth of the undergraduates belong to them, they have long been a firmly established part of the University...
...years at about $100 a month makes little sense for an individual-he could buy his own car for $2,400 and keep it longer-leasing firms usually do not aim at the general public. By far the biggest lease customers are corporations (which lease one-fourth of their total auto fleet). For them, leasing is almost always a saving. For one thing, they do not have to tie up capital. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad concludes that by leasing instead of buying a fleet of 150 cars, it frees $450,000 a year for other investments. Corporations often want...