Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andelin found themselves working a straight 80-hour week. Says Supple: "That first term you don't know where you are. You've got a few physics problems to work out, about 50 pages of history to answer quizzes on each day, and you've got math problems and chemistry experiments. One conclusion you've come to is that high school was never like this." Caltech does its best to cushion the blow when the first blue slips (academic warnings) go out. For a student who has always been accustomed to getting As, the almost inevitable...
...County (Fla.) school board added a sordid postscript to the saga of the Platt children (of Irish-Indian descent), who were barred from school in Mt. Dora because Sheriff Willis McCall arbitrarily decided that they are Negroes (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the board fired Math Teacher Don Conway for giving his blessings to a high-school student petition urging that the Platt children be allowed to stay. Conway's only comment: "If giving the kids my moral support in what I consider a Christian act is guilt, then I guess I'm guilty...
Besides the general education courses which always rank high, Math 1B, Gov 1A, and English 170B also were in the top ten. Large Radcliffe contingents helped Fine Arts 13 and Music I reach sixth and seventh places...
...section, called "only an experiment" by Loomis, will have a separate final examination. The minimum requirement for admission to the class is an A or a B in Math...
...Math 1a and 1b constitute the normal freshman survey course in Mathematics, although Mathematics 2a and 2b, a continuation of the material in Math 1, are demanded in most fields which require training in Mathematics...