Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy J. Pettis, Benjamin Peirce instructor in Mathematics, who was drafted a year ago, has been the Math Department's only war loss to date. Professor Joseph L. Walsh, in addition, has surrendered his post as chairman of the Department, but at the moment, is still teaching. Professor Marshall H. Stone replaced Walsh as departmental chief...
Student enrollment in Math has as yet been only slightly affected by the war. There is a noticeable tendency; however, toward a reduction in the number of incoming graduate students...
Under the new plan, the introductory course, B, for students having had no previous Physics training will be supplemented with a new half of course, Physics D. While taking the first half of Physics B this group will be required to take either the half-course Math C or the first half of Math A. The alternate procedure for students having had the fundamentals of Physics before coming to Harvard consists of Physics A, which combines C with the first half of Math A. Thus instead of three alternate methods for beginning physics, the student can now choose from only...
...Math Curriculum Adjusted...
More specifically, he emphasized that an officer must be better than his men. "Get into good physical condition before you're drafted," he said. Besides math, science, and languages, he recommended that those who wish to become officers study up on the causes of the war, on map-reading, and on military history...