Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mathematics, the schoolboy's horror, is perking up again after a long sabbatical in the educational doghouse. During the '30s the proportion of high-school pupils taking math dropped a third in six years, and many an educator dismissed algebra, to the vast relief of pupils, as a useless subject. But last week there were signs aplenty that U.S. schools were returning to the view that there is much to be said for the third...
...Private-school headmasters learned that too many boys knew too little math to qualify as officer material for the Army and Navy, decided to teach them more...
...Many colleges are going in for survey courses, which explain and link together quickly all the branches of math...
...unfortunate course which tries to adapt itself to the interests of pre-medical and distribution students and still please the mathematicians and future engineers in its midst, the course which tries to be advanced enough to pre-suppose prep school physics and still be simple enough not to require Math A. Now Defense is taking its toll. The scope of the course will be compressed this year into four-fifths of its former length, and the time gained will be devoted to electronics--enough to tease, but not enough to make a radio operator...
...result of the unusual size of the present Freshman class all three of the standard survey courses have increased their enrollments in spite of the triumph of their common rival. Economics A maintains its lead with only two less enrollees than Math A; Government 1 has jumped from 450 to 470 during the past year; and History 1, despite the loss of Professor Merriman, has attracted 492 students, 30 more than last fall...