Word: 17th
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Ours was a fragmented class. We entered at different times, left at different times, returned at different times. Some of those who left didn't return. My own experience was fairly typical. I arrived at mid-year, just after my 17th birthday, left just after my 18th birthday to join the army, and returned after the war. Our undergraduate experience was compressed as well as fragmented. Mine lasted six semesters, including two summer semesters, and occupied two calendar years with a two-and-a half-year break between them...
...been looking for: Lebesgue, H., Lecons sur l'Integration, a set of lectures directed at the very question I'd been asking myself. Lebesgue approached the question historically. He began by explaining how Archimedes, in the third century B.C., had been led to invent integration. Then he explained why 17th-century mathematicians had been forced to improve Archimedes' definition and what had led their successors to invent further improvements and generalizations. Now, finally, I understood the Lebesgue integral. More important, I had discovered that you need to know the history of an idea if you really want to understand...
Last fall, Carswell led the men's country team and took 17th in the NCAA Cross Country Championships' 10,000-meter run. Carswell was Harvard's first All-American male runner since Paul Gompers...
...Rumstein Air Base in Germany. Brigadier General William Stevens, commander of the 86th, Colonel Roger W. Hansen, vice-commander, and Colonel John E. Mazurowski, operations group commander, were relieved of their duties on Wednesday. Following the investigation of the CT-43 crash, Major General Charles Heflebower, commander of the 17th Air Force of which the 86th is a part, said he had "lost his confidence in the ability" of the men "to effectively discharge their responsibilities." General Michael E. Ryan, commander of all U.S. Air Force units in Europe, concurred with Heflebower's decision to relieve the commanders. Lt. Colonel...
West was in Utah to deliver the 17th annual Lecture on Human Values...