Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rise has not meant a decline in the quality of applicants; just the opposite. Glimp estimates that in the current bunch of applicants there are 1800 to 2000 who scored 700 or better in verbal aptitude and 2800 to 3000 who scored 700 or better in math aptitude. The result is that, every year, a smaller percentage of those who apply with high test scores make...
...Clifton '63 to organize and run a summer reading program for 10-year olds. Monro himself directed a pre-college English program in the summer of 1964 and then led a larger workshop of 300 students the next year. In 1966 he ran the whole summer program, including English, Math, and Upward Bound. At the same time he advised the Faculty at Miles on curriculum changes, and organized and recruited new staff...
...Whether your magazine is devoted to higher math or cheesecake, the same principles apply," Bethell says, and most of the changes in the Bulletin this fall reflect his passion for making it readable. The cover has been jazzed up with the addition of banner headlines to entice readers to articles inside. More and more the Bulletin has assumed a recognizable organization, as bric-a-brac like letters and book reviews appear issue after issue in the same part of the magazine. Bethell has added humorous pictures and a news-style headline to give the traditional sports column (always about...
...Michigan. Shortly before Sputnik, he got Carnegie to sponsor a study that eventually led to the new math. He persuaded James Bryant Conant to undertake his probing look at U.S. education. He sent out three-man "Jeep teams" to investigate Africa because even then he could see that "it was a sleeping giant-in four years everyone would be crying for African experts...
About three-fourths of the Applied Math faculty is officially on the engineering division faculty...