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Students under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last night took the first of four Tests of General Educational Development prepared by the Armed Forces Institute. Over 350 men have enrolled for the English, Social Studies, Natural Sciences, and Literature examinations. Tests in Plane Trigonometry, College Algebra, and Analytic Geometry previously announced, are not available and will not be given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A. F. I. LAUNCHES SERIES OF TESTS | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

...competent teacher, and rammed the mysteries of algebra into his boys with great success.' He had 'the lust to teach-a passion apparently analogous to concupiscence or dipsomania, and, in the more extreme varieties of pedagogues, maybe quite as strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Caco | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...Mathematician. The Liebers, who teach mathematics at New York's Long Island University, have a fine time explaining elementary things about Boolian algebra, non-Euclidean geometry and the fourth dimension. The reader is likely to share their gusto, even if he can not agree that "science and mathematics . . . can be a veritable defense against ALL evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mathematics for Mits | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...cookery, advanced meteorology, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, shorthand, automobile mechanics, bookkeeping, and chemistry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spaulding-- | 3/17/1944 | See Source »

Usafi can supply servicemen with self-teaching texts in 15 major fields of high-school and basic college studies. Among the topics: physics, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, shorthand, automobile mechanics, bookkeeping. Beyond the Arctic Circle, in the Southwest Pacific and in other remote posts, where the rarity of mail deliveries makes correspondence study impracticable, servicemen lean heavily on the self-teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pupils Without Teachers | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

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