'I PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1952 American Colleges Shifting to Science Enrollment Drop in Liberal Arts Schools Revealed by Time Survey By CAL SAMRA American colleges and universi- ties are gradually turning away from the liberal arts and humani- ties in favor of the natural and applied sciences, according to a recent New York Times survey. The Times survey, which reach- ed 100 educational institutions, re- ported that, in comparison with enrollments 10 years ago, propor- tionately fewer students are in the liberal arts than in the tech- nical and professional fields. The survey was conducted by Benjamin Fine, Times education editor. MOREOVER, due to steadily de- clining college enrollments, a greater number of liberal arts teachers have been stricken from faculty payrolls. The liberal arts field has six per cent fewer professors this year than last, Fine reported, while in thesnatural and applied sciences, only one per cent of the faculty members were dropped. The faculties in medical and re- lated sciences gained seven per cent. Future dismissals, the Times predicted, would take an even heavier toll of humanities profes- sors. FINE REVEALED that the fields Morris D ies 'Wrong-Doing' WASHINGTON -()-Newbold Morris faced a battery of Senate investigators yesterday and brisk- ly told them they would find no "wrong-doing" in the part he played in a profitable series of surplus ship deals. If some of the ships were used later in trade with Red China, he said, it was not his doing-he only found out'about it by reading the papers. President Truman's anti-cor- ruption chief drew a capacity crowd when he appeared before a Senate subcommittee for the first time in his extraordinary role of the investigator under investiga- tion. Confidently, the tall New York lawyer told Sen. McCarthy (R- Wis.) at one point: "You impute some wrongdoing in this transaction. There isn't any!" of foreign languages, English and history have been the hardest hit, The number of students in these courses has declined most sharply, resulting in faculty dismissals. The survey also indicates that in 1952-53 colleges and universi- ties expect to have fewer stu- dents in the humanities, social studies and liberal arts. At the same time, the natural and applied sciences expect a de- crease of only five per cent. THE POST-WAR trend. away from the humanities has been due to several reported factors: Nowadays young men and women are allegedly more prac- tical and more interested in pro- fessional and technical fields than were those a decade ago. Many educators point to the emphasis placed on technical sub- jects by the military services, by war-related industries, and by re- search divisions of the govern- ment. Then too, the discovery of atom- ic power, harnessed for both war and peace-time use, has had its influence on many students who see an opportunity to make a profitable career out of the new field. LOCALLY, Prof. Algo Hender- son, of the education school, gave a cyclical explanation for the trend. "In the early thirties," Prof. Henderson pointed out, "the de- pression and the human misery of the decade brought about a flourish in the study of the hu- manities, as efforts were made to improve existing conditions." The post-war period of pros- perity, however, resulted in an emphasis on technology and sci- ence, he explained. * * * The University was not included among the institutions canvassed by the Times, and no facts and figures have yet been compiled to show the trend here. BLit in speeches all over the state, President Harlan H. Hatch- er has been continually stressing the tlheme that the University must do- more than train techni- cians; that this institution is ob- ligated to acquaint its students with the humanities. At any rate, the Times survey threatens to rekindle the age-old educational controversy between men of science and the champions of liberal arts. Steel Mills Threatened ByWalkout PITTSBURGH -(IP)- The CIO United Steelworkers spread the word through the nation's steel mills yesterday-"get ready for a possible strike at the stroke of, midnight, Sunday, March 23. About 650,000 NSW members who work in basic steel producing plants across the country will stop work to back up contract demands unless the Government's Wage Stabilization Board advances a recommended settlement by then which is acceptable to both union and the steel industry. The WSB proposal may be made anytime within a week or two. UNION CHIEFTAINS are set- ting up plans for a walkout by holding mass meetings of workers in various steel centers at which international officers and district directors outline procedure in the event of a strike. The mass meetings on strike plans don't mean a work stop- page is inevitable. It does mean the union is serious about its strike threat and is laying the groundwork for a strike which could be called off in amo- ment's notice in the event of a satisfactory settlement. Last fall the union opened ne- gotiations with the nation's larg- est steel companies and levelled identical 22-point demands for an 181/2 cent hourly wage boost for men now averaging from $1.90 to $1.97 an hour, a guaranteed an- nual wage, union shop and other contract benefits. There have been published. re- ports that the WSB is going to recommend that the steelworkers be given a raise of from 14 to 20 cents an hour and that the indus- try will be allowed to raise prices about three dollars a ton. -AP News Photo UNCONCERNED-Eight-month old Alletta du Pont Bredin is the youngest of the 186 du Pont family - defendents involved in an anti-trust suit filed against the family's huge industrial em- pire by the government. But Alletta remains undisturbed. Cut Rates Offered For Florida Trip Special cut-rate prices for trans- portation, entertainment and meals have been arranged by the Wolverine Club on the student special Florida train trip during spring vacation. The Sunland Special will leave at 5:30 p.m. April 4 from Detroit and Ft. Lauderdale the following Friday. Train ticket sales will be- gin from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Friday and will continue through March 26 at a cost of $69.50 round trip- a saving of 20 dollars according to Bob Golton, '54, Wolverine club special trips chairman. Campus Calendar EVENTS TODAY CONFERENCE-Finance experts and officers from. Michigan cities will meet today and tomorrow in the East Conference Room of the Rackham Bldg. for the second an- nual Municipal Finance Officers Training Institute. ARTS THEATER-G. B. Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession" will be discussed tonight at the Arts The- ater Club after the 8 p.m. perform- ance. On the panel will be Prof. Herbert Barrows, of the English department, Donald Pearce, also of the English department, and Prof. Claribel Baird of the speech department. FRENCH CLUB -A parody of "Carmen" will be presented at the meeting of Le Cercle Francais at 8 p.m. today in the League. * * * EVENTS TOMORROW MARKETING CLUB-Basil Liv- ingston, instructor in advertising, will speak to the Student Market- ing Club on "The Development of American Markets for European Products" at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Rm. 131 of the Business Adminis- tration Building. * * * LECTURE - I. A. Richards, British philosopher and critic, will speak on "Literary Analysis" at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Rack- ham Lecture Hall. * -* AESTHETICS-Paul H. Lang, professor of musicology at Colum- bia University, will lecture on "Aesthetics of the Opera," at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham Amphitheater, Lester Markel, Sunday editor of the New York Times, will discuss the challenge to the newspaper in the sixth in the series of journali- sm lectures at 3 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Markel, who has served as the Times' Sunday editor for over 28 years, will develop this idea under the topic "The Editorial Direction of the Sunday New York Times." WHRV To Air OperaTunes Advance recordings by the cast of the Union Opera's all-male mu- sical, "Never Too Late," will be premiered on Dick Schuler's disc jockey show on station WHRV at 12:05 a.m. tomorrow immediately following The Daily's midnight newscast. The recordings, to be released for public sale late this spring, will feature four original tunes-"Can't Imagine," "When I Married You," "Promises" and the title tune, "Never Too Late." Original music and lyrics for the show were written by John Felton, Grad., Pete Katz, '55 SM, "Red" Johnson, '55, Jim Kemper, '52 and Paul McDonough, '52 BAd. On March 23, the show will be cast on the University Television Hour. R SUNDAY EDITORIALS 'Times' Editor Markel To Talk to Journalists IT IS HIS belief that a Sunday newspaper should give the reader the background of the news, the interpretation of the news and the meaning of the news in a readable fashion. As proof of his success the Sunday edition of the Times stands as a model for many oth- er Sunday papers. When Markel assumed his job in 1923 the Sun- day staff of the Times numbered five persons. Today over 90 men and women are employed with correspondents in Washington, London, and Paris. Besides playing a direct part in the idea work and editing of each section of the Sunday edition, Mar- kel keeps in touch with the rest of the newspaper world by serving as an active member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Rev.'t Hooft To Lecture On Religion The Rev. W.A. Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary of _ the World Council of Churches, will be the third lecturer in the Religion in Life Series at 8:30 p.m. today at Rackham Assembly Hall. 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