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...upperclassmen who are candidates for Honors, by expecting advanced calculus to be completed by the sophomore year, and by requiring a thesis for a magna or a summa cum laude degree, the Committee hopes to avoid attracting unsuccessful math students "who want to sit back and take it easy," Birkhoff said...
...Applied Math program should bring more of the Faculty into advising math students," Garrett Birkhoff, professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, explained. Birkhoff is a member of the Committee of Advisers in Applied Math. Other members of the Committee represent the Departments of Statistics, Economics, Physics, Astronomy, Engineering and Applied Physics, as well as the Computation Laboratory...
...main difference between the Mathematics and Applied Mathemathics programs," Birkhoff said, "is that students learn to prove theorems in math, but will learn to use them in Applied Math, will all due respect to rigor...
Energetic opposition to Whipple's suggestion came from several colleagues--notably Berry, Brooks, George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence, Professor of Chemistry, and Garrett Birkhoff, professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics...
...latter part of the year, Lowell's plan of the Society of Fellows was brought into being through his gift. Three of the first five Junior Fellows appointed that Spring are now distinguished members of the Harvard Faculty: Professors Birkhoff, Quine, and Skinner. President Church received its more recently position the next year, calling for more fellowships for distinguished scholars. The College-wide concern for scholarship could be seen in the long discussion of "snap" courses, the demand for longer library hours, and more attention to the tutorial system...