Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NOTEBOOK: It looks like Larry Brown (5-2) will go against Cornell on Friday and Ron Stewart (3-3) and Tim Clifford (5-3) at Army on Saturday. The math is easy now--Harvard must win all three games.... "Bazooka" Joe Wark gunned down two Brandeis runners attempting to steal yesterday with incredible throws...
When Carl Offner, a seventh-grade math teacher, recently told his students that he had been arrested in an anti-war demonstration he got neither hisses nor applause in response. The class merely looked at him, puzzled. No one knew anything about the war in Vietnam...
...said, "Why not? If you're going on in science you might as well make sure of your math...
...from College and not end up in a rice paddy carrying an M-16, there was a pervasive feeling in the early years of the decade--especially among the strongly pre-professional--that leave-taking displayed some kind of weakness or foolish vacillation. Deborah Hughes-Hallet, who has taught math and advised undergraduates in the sciences since 1969, says that even now, when she suggests that undecided students take leaves of absence, "they almost invariably draw themselves up to their full height and say, 'I'm not like that...
...next morning the admissions committee scans applications from a small rural high school in the Southwest. It is searching for prized specimens known as "neat small-town kids." "Amy" is near the top of her class, with mid-500 verbals, high-600 math and science. She is also poor, white and "geo"-she would add to the geographic and economic diversity that saves Brown from becoming a postgraduate New England prep school. While just over 20% of the New York State applicants will get in, almost 40% will be admitted from Region 7-Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana...