Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yugoslavia this summer with a mathematics professor at the University of Split. Even though he disagreed with some of his country's political policies, he loved Yugoslavia, and was resigned to living in a country where he was not always free to do what he wanted. "But I have math," he said as a smile broke over his face. "You can escape the evils of world politics in math...
...Math professors at Harvard, however--and all other scientists here who receive money from the federal government--have recently found that they are unable to escape the evils of politics in math or for that matter in any science...
...young man with motley Kentucky side-burns is talking to a pale blonde boy. The side-burns belong to Dan Gordon, a 16-year-old Exeter graduate who teaches phys-ed and math at the Palfry Street School in Watertown; the blonde hair belongs to his student, one year his junior, who despised the Cambridge public schools and so came to Palfrey...
...Palfry the Director plays recorder duets with his pupils; the math teacher is younger than his students; the dog under the classroom table is named Leo. The kids who hated school before are still hanging around after...
Under the new Selective Service Act effective this July 1, medical students are the only graduates deferrable by local boards. But Culver said that this could not have affected this year's applications. Pre-med science and math requirements force students thinking of attending medical school to make plans several years in advance, he said...