Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more liberal than other Princeton men, and the system appears immoral to them. So many of them choose not to join. Others, faced with the prospect of landing in a bottom club, decide not to join. One Wilson man pointed out that there is a high proportion of math and science men in the bottom clubs (and sociological studies bear him out): "Many Jews are math-science men, and they don't want to be in bottom clubs, so they join Wilson...
...studios. Most professors give two lectures a week on television. Dean Beckel sees an advantage in the ability to add graphics and photographic illustrations to the lectures of what he calls the "semi-live" professors. Television is not suitable, he concedes, for such subjects as English composition, French recitation, math drills and problem-solving in the sciences. But otherwise, he says, "you at least get no worse results than by face-to-face instruction...
Engineers with a B.A., for example, can expect to start at $712 a month, compared with $676 for 1966 graduates; math majors may earn $636, against $605 for last June's seniors...
...Committee and the Soviet Council of Ministers ordered a major curriculum revision to be ready by 1970. Explaining why, Pravda this month published an unusually candid article by Russian Education Minister Mikhail Prokofiev, who charged that the vast Soviet school system is not only seriously deficient in science and math teaching, but is mired in a rigid "bookism" that makes learning a bore and produces an alarming dropout rate...
...teachers in the program are five middle-level courses with imposing names like "Exposition and Historical Inquiry" and "Exposition and Scientific Methods." Of the 250 enrolled in these half-year seminars, 80 per cent are super-literate freshmen who pulled the required 700's on both the verbal and math SAT's and 4's or 5's on the CEEB Advance Placement exam in English. The rest are upperclassmen who managed to impress section men with their enthusiasm or need for writing instruction at interviews this fall...