Word: algebraically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...languages, achievement is inherently cumulative. If the necessary structural elements are mastered in the early years, continued practice and broadening of vocabulary brings added power for those who have capacity for linguistic study. In other instances, where we have been accustomed to think in terms of different divisions,--Algebra, Geometry, or Physics, Biology,--there must be more conscious effort to bring out the common elements and underlying principles and to establish continuity between courses in the same field. Again, even with a homogenous group of student in a course of concentration the instructor must not assume the attitude...
...plan and have freshly in mind the knowledge needs to pass eleven examinations in June and September of a single year. A reference to the representative course of study above given will show that he has not studied Plane Geometry for a year, that he has not studied Algebra for two years. If the school believes that no boy expect one planning to be a linguist should give over half of his time to the rudiments of three foreign languages, and if it has sought relief from this necessity by attempting to discard the old plan entirely...
Cadet Parham, appointed from Chicago by Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest, entered the Academy last summer (TIME, July 15). Almost at once he fell behind his class in mathematics (algebra and geometry). Once when he was about to resign Congressman De Priest came to see him, urged him to "stick it out." He started special coaching, stopped after a week. His grades in mathematics were so consistently low that his classmates suspected he was "boning foundation" (inviting discharge by failing to work). They felt that, though there was no hazing, no discrimination, he would not have entered the Academy...