Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some, the years at Harvard bring growing distance from the church. Octaviano M. Ledesma Jr. '76, a Math major living in Canaday Hall, attended the Cambridge church regularly the first year after he arrived from his home in Calexico, California, a town of 11,000 near the Mexican border and about 120 miles east of San Diego. The Mormon church there had about 100 members, with only 15 or 20 Anglos. Ledesma's parents converted to Mormonism when he was four or five; missionaries had come to their home, then in Los Angeles, and, he says...
...million in 1969 to $585 million last spring. In addition to the expense of absorbing more students (freshman enrollment increased from 29,937 in 1969 to a current high of 40,000), the number of full-time faculty members more than doubled, to 12,814 and remedial-reading and math programs set up to bring the new students up to college levels cost another $30 million annually...
CUNY's new entrance requirement -an eighth-grade level in both reading and math-will still seem shockingly low to most Americans. Yet over the next four years, it will disqualify an estimated 10,000 students a year saving New York about $16 million annually...
...important. What is important-and very nicely done too-is the way everyone reverts instantly to childhood in moments of crisis. Moriarty (Leo McKern) is set up as a math wizard, for example, but his blackboard is covered with a second-grader's mistakes. When he conducts an auction of the purloined parchment, he is reduced to counting on his fingers as he tries to convert francs into pounds. Later Moriarty and DeLuise (playing a hammy opera singer) squabble over the document in a manner more appropriate to four-year-olds disputing possession of a pail in a sandpile...
...admissions program, which admits every high school graduate. Now it is probable that students who have less than a C average or who rank in the lower third of their class will have to take a test to show that they have an eighth-grade level in reading and math...