Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distribution requirements were changed to one in literature, one in history or government, one in science and one in math or philosophy...
...arrived at the colleges on missionary scholarships. Central College enrolled Augustine Njoku-Obi, 22, an ebony-black graduate of a Nigerian mission school. McPherson College took in six other Africans: James Craig, 25, a half-Scots Nigerian who wanted to be an agricultural missionary; Joseph Obi, 26, a onetime math teacher in a mission high school (who soon topped McPherson's honor roll); Isaac Grille, 21, a surveyor aiming for a degree in civil engineering; Daniel Onyema, 28, an accountant who wanted to be an electrical engineer; Emanuel Thompson, 24, a pharmacist studying' to be an orthopedic surgeon...
...math teacher, went one evening into a downtown cafe and sat down at the counter. The counterman told Joe he would have to eat in the kitchen. "I was awfully hungry," Joe said later, "so I went back there to the kitchen. They put me at a little table near the sink. The dishwasher splashed soapy water on my food, and someone started to sweep the floor and made a dust cloud." Joe was terrified. He plunked down the price of his meal, dashed out through the front door, and ran without stopping all the mile and a half back...
Gerald Richmond of Dorchester, Mass. and Dudley, George Hubert Stout, St. Louis and Adams, Chemistry; Richard Parks Turner, Dayton, Ohio and Lowell, Linguistics and Romance Languages; Robert Arthur Wallace, of Springfield, Mo. and Lowell, English, and Eric Wolman, of New York and Lowell, Math.; Theodore Donald Dubin, of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Lowell, Biochemical Sciences...
...report suggests, among other things, secondary schools teach more advanced math courses, carry on college level American history and elementary science courses, and give students a much more thorough grounding in languages than previously given...