Ip MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. B Thursday, Oct 8, 1959
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Students Majoring in Science,
Mathematics Said on Increase
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By LOUIS CASSELS
" UPI Correspondent
The number of U. S. college
students majoring in science
and mathematics rose sharply
during the first year of the
space age.
The upsurge of undergradu
ate iSterest-which bodes well
for the nation's future supply
of scientists - is dramatically
revealed in a statistical sur
vey just completed by the U.S.
office of education.
It shows that the number of
college , juniors electing ma
jors in physical and biological
sciences and mathematics in
creased 10.4 per cent from the
fall of 1957 to tfie fall of 1958.
There were 50,513 juniors
majoring in these0 fields - in
1957, and 55,777 a year later.
More Than Expected
The increase was three
times as great as might have
been expected on the basis of
the general growth of college
enrollment.
The survey focused on n
niors because concentration in
a specialized field usually be
gins in the third college year.
The newly-published figures
should offset some of the
gloom that spread through of
ficial, quarters here in the
wake of an earlier report from
the office of education. That
report, compiled several
months ago, shSwed that un
dergraduate engineering en
rollment dropped 4.5 per cent
from the fall of 1957 to the
fall of 1958.
The decline in engineering
enrollment was particularly
disturbing because it seemed
to mean that American college
students were not responding
to the national need for more
technologically-trained m a n-
power a need vividly dem
onstrated on Oct. 4, 1957,
when Russia's Sputnik I went
into orbit. . . ...
. Students Switching
It now appears that the mys
tifying girop in engineering
enrollment may have resulted,
at least in part, from students
- switching into math and sci
gpee majors. Educators point
out that a shift of only a few
courses can change an engi
neering major into a math or
science major.
This thesis is suppored by
another set of figures which
show there was virtually no
change from 1957 to 1958 in
the total percentage of third
year college students major
ing in science or engineering.
In 1957, the combined en
rollment in both fields was
98,896 students or 25.3 per
cent of the total third-year stu
dent population.
In 1958, the combined en
rollment was 102,975 or 25.4
per cent of the total. , .
: Thus, there was relatively
little gain in the aggregate
number of students preparing
for scientific or technological
careers.
" - Entitled To Own Theory
Why did a substantial num-
o ber of students apparently de
cide they would rather be sci
entists than engineers? Since
no one has conducted an atti
tude survey that would pro
vide reliable answers to that
question, every one is entitled
to his own theory. '
One possible explanation is
that the new horizons now
opening in space have stim
ulated an interest in pure sci
ence among some students
who formerly were concerned
only with practical applica
tions. ' : ; '
i More light may be shed by
the figures for the fall of 1959,
which will take several
months to compile. Officials
are hopeful they will show in
creases in both ' science and,
engineering majors.
As things stand now, U. S.
colleges wili graduate next
spring about 45,000 bachelors
of science and 35,000 engi
neers, a total of 80,000.
No figures are available
here on Russia's output of sci
ence graduates. But it is
known that Soviet universities
are graduating 90,000 engi
neers a year. ,
Half of Surgery in
U.S. Said Done by
Unqualified Doctors
Atlantic City, N.J. (Science
Service) - One-half of all sur
gery that is performed in this
country each year is done by
persons who are not primarily
surgeons, the new president
of the American College of
Surgeons said here. J ;
Virtually all surgery is doue
by trained and qualified sur
geons throughout Europe and
Great Britain, Dr. Owen Wan
gensteen, professor of surgery
and chairman of the depart
ment at the University of Min
nesota, said. This is not tru -in
America, . however, he
pointed out. ,
Pioneer Country
The U.S.. has been essential
ly a pioneer country. The
American surgeon at the turn
of the century did general
practice and culled his sur
gery from it. But the causes
no longer exist that preserved
the tradition that anyone li
censed to practice medicine
in our country is also com
petent to perform operations,
he told those attending the
annual convocation ending the
College's clinical congress
here.
If local and national ac
creditation groups, working
together, fail to curb the prac
tice of untrained and unquali
fied practitioners performing
major operations, steps must
be taken with licensing boards
to establish better controls in
the public interest.
These remarks followed on
the heels of the last of the
College's clinical sessions
which drew 10,000 surgeons
from acros the country.
Transplants Advancing
The j visitors hear.d col
leagues at the sessions explain
how they were slowly advanc
ing in the field of organ trans
plant - how puppies' hearts
had been dehydrated, frozen,
and 24 hours later, sewn into
the necks of other dogs and
made to beat again; they
heard how powerful anti-cancer
, drugs, too strong' to be
tolerated by the whole body,
could now' be perfused into
the head . alone, to attack
brain cancers without damag
ing vital brain tissue.
They also heard one doc
tor's encouraging report on
the use of x-rays to increase
the supply of blood to the
heart muscle. . - ...
Gold Film Reflects
Radiation of Heat .
New York -(Science Ser
vice) Gold film, four-mil-lionths
of an inch thick, has
been found "unequalled" as a
reflector of heat . radiation
when used on missile and air
craft sections, R. T. Hopper,
head of the Hanovia Liquid
Gold Division of Engelhard
Industries, Inc., has reported.
The gold films have been
sprayed on such vulnerable
surfaces as engine shrouds,
drag-chute containers, . tail
cone assemblies and blast
shields.
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