Word: algebra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practice teaching, which means the actual conduct of classes in various high school subjects, such as French, algebra, history, and English, is the form of apprenticeship provided for those who expect to be teachers in secondary schools. Other forms of apprenticeship are used for those who are in training for careers in school administration, playground work, vocational guidance, educational measurement, and other forms of educational service, outside of teaching...
...academics of the Fourth Class Year do not sound difficult. They consist of advanced algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, plane analytic geometry, French and English. The Plebe has two subjects a day, Math and French or English, alternating. He also has physical training each day, but this does not require outside preparation. However, even if these subjects do not seem hard to those on the outside, they are, and this is what makes them so. Before the Plebe entered here, in other schools he spent most of the time in classes, being instructed...
This course is a highly, interesting study of projective geometry, or rather, an advanced analytic geometry studied from the point of view of a generalized algebra and a generalized non-metrical geometry. It touches several distinct mathematical systems, new and interesting, such as the counting by parameters of points and lines in space. Under Professor Graustein the course is an exceedingly good...
...tell a joke well, lead a discussion, act in a play, talk on sex, or lead a group. . . . He has had a harmonious home, enjoys his job, prefers adventure to peace, responsibility to direction. Not essential to happiness are intelligence, race, nationality, self-support, religious participation, ability in algebra, cleverness in writing poetry...
...school curriculum. At least one boarding school of large size has, moreover, gone a step further and has introduced, more or less informally, courses designed to give the student some conception of the actual world within which he lives, such as can not be derived from the study of algebra or Latin. Their aim, namely, the general broad view over and the correlation of the various forces which have produced the contemporary state of mankind, is almost a commonplace in the academic life of such an institution as is Harvard where not only many courses as for example, Biology...