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...German-born secretary, 36, who came to the U.S. in 1939, worked as a surgeon's medical assistant, in 1945 went overseas as a special clerk for U.S. military intelligence. The credits she earned right off: nine in German, three in French, six in English, six in algebra and trigonometry, three in anthropology, and three for freshman Classical Civilization...
...competition in the modern public school. After all, said he, "only the best football players are members of the varsity squad . . . There is competition for the cast of the annual play ... It seems that quite a different view of the natural desire to excel applies in the English, algebra, history and chemistry classes . . . We have exalted the average man. We have made it appear that the middle of the scale is the appropriate place for Americans to stand...
...least four out of five students took mathematics. Today fewer than half the students do, and of these, 13% are taking "general mathematics." which Latimer calls "a preparation for nothing, as far as college is concerned." Biggest slump: algebra, down from...
...himself, he put the big book aside and batted out Across the River and Into the Trees, which most critics found a middle-aged love fantasy with an admixture of bad-tempered military shoptalk. Said Hemingway about the critics: "I have moved through arithmetic, through plane geometry and algebra, and now I am in calculus. If they don't understand that, to hell with them...
...Back at Harvard, Pusey eventually turned out a Ph.D. thesis on 4th century Athenian law. Meanwhile, he took two trips abroad, traveled in Greece, explored the cathedrals and palaces of Rome. In 1936 he married a trim Bryn Mawr graduate named Anne Woodward, whom he had once tutored in algebra back in Iowa. By that time he had begun "teaching my way across the country"-at Lawrence. Scripps College in California, and Wesleyan...