Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reduced to cold figures, undergraduate emotions over the A.B.-S.B. degree distinction and the ancient languages reveal that 46 percent of the students favor a single degree in some form, that 70 percent of those taking Latin considered it "of value," and that the study of Greek is on its last legs throughout the country...
...While 16 percent, of whom 80 percent were candidates for the A.B., favored the "status quo" on the matter of the College degree, another 40 percent preferred two or three degrees awarded according to one's course of study, feeling running strongest among the social scientists...
Contentment with individuals' present candidacy ran the gamut from 100 percent among humanities candidates for the A.B. to 75 percent dissatisfaction among prospective S.B.'s in the social sciences...
Natural Science A.B.'s were 70 percent against taking an S.B. and 30 percent indifferent, while 33 percent of S.B.'s preferred the other degree, 25 percent were content, and 42 percent did not care...
With a new lease on life in the form of 50 percent more working space and recognition of its scientific nature, the department will put into operation this winter a laboratory, which in its anticipated 30 years of service, may well bring developments which would be as starting to people today as the intricate devices in Memorial hall would appear to the venerable professors who moved into the first planed psychology laboratory atop Emerson Hall...