Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Casner that they are convinced in their own minds that the courses will be repeated again and again unless we beat the Japs next week. Is there any reason why the Fine Arts concentrator who says "What can I do?" cannot, be told that in the past Math 2 plus the declining Army physical minimum has enrolled men as cadet meteorologists, and that the probability of future repetition is excellent? Or that the chances are better than excellent that two math courses and two physics courses will send even Classics concentrators to Craft and the Signal Corps? Such probabilities constitute...
...Math Department has temporarily split Math A so that students can begin it in any of the three terms. Because that course is more advanced than most college beginning courses and skips trigonometry, Math C, a half-course, will be inaugurated this summer both for students in Physics and for students seeking service commissions...
...Math Department has awakened to but half the challenge. While preparing to meet the demands of such programs as V-7 by offering elementary courses in trigonometry and high-school algebra, they have done nothing to remove the anachronism of an undergraduate study-course which most nearly resembles the extravagant tales of Progressive Education in the freedom of material which it allows its section men, and in the resulting lack of rigorous or uniform training. The fastest Math A sections cover a wealth of material never approached by their slower brethren, and the final examinations of the former group...
This inter-sectional gap is more than filled by the two months of almost straight revue work which open Math 2, but the time lost there and in the balance of this overly leisurely course constitutes one of the worst bottle-necks in the training of scientists for defense. In time of peace this laxness may have been partially balanced by the freedom allowed the section men to touch upon advanced topics in their special fields, but in a war training program this aspect of a liberal education must be sacrificed. Not only does it delay mathematical training...
...University at war demands a reshuffling in the middle mathematics courses. Scientific training would be greatly facilitated by a uniformity of material and drill, while the time saved by such a reorganization would allow the important material of Math 5a to be included in Math 2, making the former a non-essential for advanced science students, and saving an additional half-year of preparation...