Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those made eligible by the new arrangement will be men in Mil Sci 1, premedical students, and those classified under the "approved engineering" courses, which include chemistry, astronomy, physics, electronic engineering, math, and psychology...
...Math Theses Copled...
Although engineering science, chemistry, physics (including astronomy), and math, and psychology have been clarified as in the approved engineering course group, biochemistry and architectural science still await "interpretation," according to Dr. Perkins...
...least two false criteria which are confusing us in this attempt: the identification of liberal education with content rather than method, and the measure of value in terms of abstruseness. It is a mistake to believe that literature or philosophy are essentially more "liberal subjects" than science or math. Perhaps the greatest tragedy of education today is the cleavage between science and "the humanities." We have no more Leonardos or Goethes. Anyone who has studied the history of science, or read Whitehead or Eddington can testify to their superior value as general training for the mind, over an intensive course...
...young Brooklyn boys in zoot suits, Joseph Annunziata and Neil Simonelli, never did like their old math teacher anyhow. So one day two months ago they went back to their high school and smoked in a washroom, just to be annoying. When the teacher reprimanded them and sent them packing, they got sore. Presently they returned to the school with a revolver and shot the math teacher in the back. He died in his blood on the floor of the school corridor. On such evidence the two boys, no longer in zoot suits, were last week sent to Sing Sing...