Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreword to one book, "I think the reader will find this a good-humored book. There is a place, no doubt, for the great polemic.... I would like to suppose I do not take myself so seriously." He laments the set-up in economics wherein "an economist who uses math and can't add is excluded from the field, while one who uses oral expression and can't write may be considered a competent scholar...
Rankings of the top ten courses are: Economics 1, 549; Hum. 2, 519; English 124, 502; Math 1A, 498; Hum. 5, 491; SocSci. 1, 460; Chemistry 1, 356; Government 1A, 342; English...
...result of increased high school math and science, Conant said, the premed student "could be examined in the sciences by the end of the freshman year, and be freed of further course requirements in science...
Academic Life. Graduating from the American University of Beirut in 1927, he taught math and physics there for two years. Inspired by a gift of Professor Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, he worked for three years to raise enough money to get to Harvard and study under Whitehead himself. After getting his Ph.D., he taught philosophy at Beirut from 1937 to 1945. Said the great Whitehead: "One of those extraordinary individuals who had a kind of air of divinity about...
Under Conant's program, academically able students would not neglect math and science, however. Talented girls especially should be encouraged to enter science and mathematics courses, Conant urged. "I am convinced that we are losing many potential science teachers because of the reluctance of bright girls to study science and mathematics," he stated...