Word: conic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn enough chemistry to determine simple compounds of some twenty-odd elements, enough astronomy to calculate roughly the winter solstice with hand-made tools or to ask why the orbit of the moon is not a true ellipse, and enough geometry and trigonometry to construct very accurate maps on conic and other projections...
...University policy of knowing something about the whole department and a lot about some particular specialty of that department. The consequence was envisioned in mathematical terms, with knowledge building up from the most general understanding of all fields to the most meticulous understanding of some specialty, a glorious conic section...
...female secondary sex characteristic. Reporter Barzini agrees that it is one of the sights of the U.S. "Many [women] sport long conic breasts jutting out like tents from blouses and pullovers . . . They carry them under their chins with the same indifference with which soldiers carry their packs on the back. Strange and unreal breasts they are ... Symbolic appendages ... a fiction...
Coolidge, who is the former master of Lowell House, came back during the war to teach freshman Mathematics for several years. Since his retirement in 1940, he has also written several mathematical treatises, "The History of Conic Sections" and "The Mathematics of Great Amateurs," which deals with the achievements of men who were famous in another field and only debbied in math as a pastime...
This was in line with a cherished Yale policy of no student government. Elis first expressed contempt for fellow student authority in 1830 in what has since come to be known as the Conic section Rebellion. The revolt was inspired by a combine in the sophomore class that took exception to the way students had to recite on conic sections...