Word: graustein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University adopted a new system of appointments to full and associate professorships--the two ranks with permanent tenure. Its conception and its mechanics were largely the work of William C. Graustein '11, professor of Mathematics, an outstanding geometrician. Graustein was an extraordinary individual who brought to administrative problems a precise and mathematical approach. He made out the course catalogue each year, almost as a hobby, for he enjoyed wrestling with its major difficulty: to schedule at different hours the courses which are most likely to interest any particular student, while at the same time not giving any teacher too rough...
...spring of 1939 Graustein and Provost Buck, then an associate professor of History, were appointed assistant deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Before the year was out, Graustein died in an automobile accident...
Long the bane of Math A goers, the course texts, written by former staff members Osgood and Graustein, are admittedly inferior and used mainly for their homework problems. In places the subject matter is incorrect and in others it is now taught differently. The Department has rejected all substitutes, however, as being even more inadequate for the purpose of the course. If the staff refuses to use other books in the field, then it is clearly time to write one of its own, designed expressly for the course, as in English...
...Philosophy department lost Prall, the Mathematics department lost Graustein and Coolidge. Stone or Walsh may take over. Walsh's lectures are extraordinarily good, and he is also well worth knowing, and very interested in his students. Both the Birkoffs, though fine mathematicians, are bad teachers, with carelesely organized lectures, and exasperating blackboard technique. As to Stone, he is well liked in his advanced course...
Math. 21 is for specialists, so to speak, but if given by Huntington is worth taking. Math 22, under Graustein, was excellent, though exceedingly difficult...