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FAMED in the scientific world as one of the few men, if not the only man, who could understand the intricate mathematics of Harvard's most famous higher mathematician, Benjamin Pierce, Thomas Hill is equally famed in the educational world as being not only an able scholar, but a sensible and efficient administrator. This life of Harvard's Twentieth President, Mr. Land has designed "to be merely an introduction of Dr. Hill to the world he left forty-two years ago." Few today are left who could expound the educational and mathematical theories of this...
Engaged. Herbert Edwin Hawkes, 61, Ph. D., mathematician, dean of Columbia College since 1918; and Anna L. Rose, 40, Ph. D., Carnegie Foundation researcher; onetime (1921-29) dean and registrar of George Washington University...
...Stuart had seen the Yale team play. He was a good mathematician and yacht designer, and he applied his knowledge in a mathematical analysis of the Yale attack...
When the period ended, the Harvard team, coached by a mathematician and yacht builder, had triumphed 12 to 6, in its first decisive victory over Yale...
Critics took the stand that in his effort to develop something new Schönberg had lost his real inspiration and become a hard-headed mathematician. (His Cancrizans can be played either backwards or forwards.) But no one has denied his genius as a teacher. In Europe where he had the facilities he took his pupils into his home to live, helped them study Bach and Beethoven, then let them write the kind of music which came naturally to them. His U. S. pupils will have to go through the same fundamental training. The one thing he will not encourage...