Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special advantages offered by those colleges that deferred enlistment plans were set up. Students would hardly be serving their country best, if they did not recognize this situation, and plan their courses accordingly. The Reserve plans, it is true, require or suggest one or two math or physics courses. However, they make up only a very small part of a man's program, and new Freshmen particularly need not concern themselves with these requirements at least until the end of their first semester, since there will be plenty of time to prepare for special examinations, and to complete requirements...
...that a course of study must be planned in the light of the war. No college has been able to avoid the war's impact. But it is not yet trite to point out that planning such a course of study does not mean choosing only courses in math and physics, with perhaps a little military Japanese thrown in. Liberal education has the special virtue of flexibility and breadth sufficient to cope with abnormal situations. It changes gradually, as the main lines of thought shift from age to age, but it is adaptable as its stands, to cope with emergencies...
...foresee a vastly changed post-war world centered more & more in Washington. But they think there will still be a solid place for college men. Meanwhile, a "Yale Plan" has been worked out with Army & Navy whereby students may continue with their elected majors but add war-geared physics, math, electronics, etc. The entire student body is now obliged to take physical training three times a week under Yale Swimming and Olympic Coach Bob Kiphuth. In bull sessions, sex plays second fiddle to the Second Front...
...Math 4 accents Math and Physics in alternate years. Stone, leaves most students wandering around in a mist for the first two months. He stressed the mathematical side of the course this year, but Van Vleck, who will probably give it next year, emphasizes physics...
...Math. 21, a half-course in statistics, was given by Kaplansky for the first time this year. He was very enthusiastic in his work and is trying to simplify the material...