Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work (at $5 a week) for National Tube Co., "throwing pig iron around from 7 in the morning to 5:30 at night." Later, as a civilian draftsman for the Army Engineers, he found time to take International Correspondence School courses at night, crammed in enough drafting, engineering and math to pass the entrance exams to Carnegie Tech. Dutch worked his way through a year of college (and into the presidency of the freshman class) before he decided he was wasting his time...
President Lowell announced plans for the erection of a memorial chapel to Harvard's war dead, and the mathematics department released plans for a tutorial set up. Mental telepathy threatened to make math a useless field, however. It was the national craze, and all over the College people boasted of their prowess. But the University, eager to expose a fraud, persuaded several instructors to sign up for seances and thus expose the self-styled spiritualists. The craze ended quickly at Harvard after that...
Requirements for an honors degree are hardly more stringent than for non-honors. The honors candidate must take an additional course in math and write a thesis...
...With Math. 105 and 106 under his belt, the student is then prepared to take most of the courses in the Department. This is perhaps unfortunate, since many in the field, especially those out for honors, tend to over concentrate. The faculty has attempted to discourage this, urging students to get as wide a liberal arts background as possible before they go on to graduate school, as most concentrators do. The Department especially recommends a reading knowledge of French or German, preferably both...
...either student the field proves quite satisfactory. The requirements for concentration seem numerous, but actually for anyone even vaguely interested in physics or chemistry they are essential, and in the end, rather enjoyable courses, in mathematics, Physical Science concentrators are required to take Math 1a, 1b, and 2a. In the field of bunsen burners and test tubes, concentrators must take either Chem 1 or Chem 2. And in physics the equivalent of Physics 11 is necessary...