Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discontent arises simply because pre-med students are little interested in chemistry for its own sake. But lack of interest is not the only factor. These students are forced to divide their time with other fields which compete for their attention. A pre-med may be taking biology and math as well as his chemistry course and not wish to slight either...
Dixie Dozen. In Georgia, the hangup was a matter of old math-Southern style. With 451,032 votes, Republican Congressman Howard Call away had an undisputed lead over Democrat Lester Maddox, who had 448,598. But Democrat Ellis Arnall, a former Governor and the contest's only racial moderate, got 57,832 write-in votes and, under an amendment adopted in 1824, Georgia's constitution requires that a gubernatorial candidate must win more than 50% of the popular vote in order to be elected. If no contender wins an absolute majority, according to the constitution...
...could understand from the tapes. Cramer didn't use any Harvard men in his testing. "I wanted to see what could be achieved under optimum conditions," he said. "Women have been shown to have a consistently higher verbal ability than men," who, he added quickly, "are usually better at math...
...Spring two new Harvard courses will test the feasibility of the system's use as a lecture aid. Ruyle himself will teach one of the new courses, a revised version of Math 20b. He hopes to use Culler's system to quickly compute graphical techniques used in solving differential equations...
...there are several factors which preclude such a solution. First, strong cases can be made for requiring other disciplines on the same grounds. The science departments, for instance, have long yearned for a universal Math 1 requirement. Math, after all, is "the language of science," and no one could say that Math 1 is any less valuable than French A. A stiffened language requirement would encourage such claims. Also, administrators, especially admissions people, dislike any talk of increased requirements, because they are afraid of detracting from Harvard's chief selling point--freedom from requirements...