Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summa is a hard-to-get commodity, and the Social Sciences area is the worst place to do the shopping. The recent report to the Faculty on this uneven situation merits consideration and action from those departments which were cited for their relatively high number of summas, as well as from those with a relatively low total. The report revealed that the fields of English, Government, Biochemistry, and especially Economics and History awarded far fewer summas to students who, on the basis of grades, would be qualified, than most fields in the Humanities and Natural Sciences...
While seniors in most of the Natural Sciences are judged only by their course grades, students in the five low fields face the additional obstacles of theses and general examinations. The Whitla report noted, in addition, that "even if grades were used as the only criterion, Social Science graduates would not receive in relation to their ability the same percentage of highest honor degrees...
...Economics, for example, has approximately one-fourth the chance of receiving a summa than his counterpart has in Physics or Mathematics. While this might be partially explained by the nature of the fields (or the age at which significant contributions are made in the sciences as opposed to the social sciences), the discrepancy is far too large. The student in the social sciences should be placed in a more even competitive position...
...study, prepared by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, and submitted to the Faculty last Tuesday, showed that only 1.3 per cent of Social Sciences students receive degrees with highest honors, as opposed to 6.9 per cent in the Natural Sciences and 3.6 per cent in the Humanities...
...rest of the budget may get speedy approval, now that Treasury Secretary Humphrey has departed. The only blocks to its quick passage would be a seemingly inadequate defense appropriation or a failure to care for the social legislation endorsed by the Senate Democrats...