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CENERAL SCIENCE Ceneral Science is a discipline familiar to many non-scientists trying to fulfill out of division requirements. But things are looking up for the once hapless and bored social scientist or artist. A new astronomy course, with a great stress on observation, has spiced up the choice offered to students. For those who found physical science interestiflB, ? new course in advanced physical science was available for the first time. The old standby of general biology showed an abnormal increase of 40 per cent, registering 800 fall term. This unexpected number, combined with a size- able increase in physical science courses, com- pletely absorbed the time, space, and faculty of the Ceneral Science Department. Pressures were somewhat relieved via the drop and flunk-out mortality of winter and spring terms. The move of most upper division science to the new build- ing is a promise for fall. 27