Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glimp explained that math aptitude shows up significantly in achievement scores and in rank in class. Hence the mathematical capabilities of the Harvard applicants are indirectly included in the PRL formula...
...promising effort to overcome G.I. indifference to higher education is an experiment by the City University of New York in cooperation with nearby Fort Dix, N.J. Counselors picked 22 men for survey courses in English and math to prepare them for college entry in the fall. The experiment is limited, but all of those in the Fort Dix project are either now in college or expected to enroll this September...
Robin Foote, 23, is the first woman at the Harvard Business School to become a Baker Scholar. Once a math buff, she shifted to economics because it was "more world-oriented, more people-oriented." This spring she traveled to Atlanta's Morris Brown College, a Negro school, to advise it on how to apply for more federal funds; with her help, Morris Brown got an added $136,000. She has applied for a White House Fellowship, and hopes to spend the next year as an aide to a Cabinet officer. "I love problem solving," she says, which...
...readers are not likely to notice the omission. On the contrary, they are likely to be struck by the lucidity of his expression, which is commendably unambiguous if not always very lyrical. Where most people might render harsh judgment on themselves with "I'm no good at math," Bourland would express the thought with far less immutability: "I did not receive good grades in math," or "I did less well at math than at other subjects...
WHEN ALAN refuses to be put off, Michael can do nothing except hope that his straight friend will have come and gone before the rest of the "boys" arrive. But some of the party guests beat Alan to the scene: Hank, an Ivy-League-looking married math teacher and his lover, Larry; Bernard, a cool black; Emory, a prissy, feminine interior decorator. By the time Harold (the birthday boy), Cowboy (a hustler being given to Harold for the night as a gift) and Alan appear, the flow of liquor has locked all those present into a violent carnival of sadistic...