Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mental stability," "intellectual ability" and "basic integrity" of Negro students at Harvard. What I do say in those articles, and would reiterate, is that too many black students enter Harvard with academic deficiencies (perhaps 40%) and that this should be avoided by raising the median SAT verbal and math scores of black students nearer to the median for Harvard College. I also argue that a quota for blacks is defensible and the proportion of blacks in Harvard College be maintained...
Elizabeth and Joshua Steiner, aged 10 and 7 respectively, and sub-counsels to the University, saw no action yesterday, but kept tally from the sidelines. "Daddy," they said after the game, "even with new math it comes...
...family encyclopedia at his back, handy for reference in arguments. Gough left one school after a teacher complained of his impudence, a charge that was to be echoed throughout his life. In Canberra Grammar, he was classed as industrious but not brilliant, good in English and Latin, terrible in math and, again, impudent. At Sydney University, where he studied arts and law, he was known as a prankster. In his first role as Prime Minister, he played Neville Chamberlain in a 1940 student skit. Stepping to the footlights in a bowler and carrying an umbrella, he said: "I have seen...
...committee presently sends volunteers to eight Massachusetts correvtional institutions to instruct inmates in math, reading and other subjects relevant to rehabilitation. The black studies courses have been among the most popular with inmates, Rodriguez said...
...President Nixon did not nominate a new successor until last week. His choice: John R. Ottina, 41, a seasoned administrator who has had little firsthand experience in education. After earning his doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Southern California in 1964, he did teach math for two years in a public high school in his native Los Angeles. But then he became a systems analyst, eventually rising to chairman of Worldwide Information Systems, a management-consulting firm in Los Angeles, before moving to Washington, D.C., as deputy commissioner...