Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crash Mission. Even if a school has money, it usually hungers for qualified students. At Texas Southern University, for example, 90% of the freshmen have to take remedial math or English or both. Half the freshman class of 1,000 drops out, and only about one-fourth lasts to graduation. About half the graduates of Negro colleges become schoolteachers. So goes the vicious circle: poor teachers turning out poor students, who then become poor teachers turning out poor students...
Lush & Cool. Opened in 1912 after complex litigation, Rice is so rich (net worth: $101 million) that it charges no tuition, and so picks only top students. Long mistaken for a pure engineering school, Rice in fact is a fount of the humanities. Though Rice students endure Math 100, a required trial in orderly thinking, the majority wind up in liberal arts...
...early marriage is perhaps largely the effect of unexpectation. Schoolgirls soon accept the idea that to be married is to be satisfied with life. Schools steer girls away from science and math because "you won't need it." Girls more than ever go to college "not to pursue learning but to learn pursuing." They slip, in the phrase of Anthropologist Margaret Mead, into "a kind of fur-lined domesticity...
...hardly visible. Our diamond tip must be perfectly rounded and polished to .0007"--that's seven TEN-THOUSANDTHS of an inch. And, most important of all, the whole needle and needle-arm assembly must be perfectly free to trace grooves as fine as 2,000 vibrations per inch (our math upon request); must be perfectly free from resonances in the range of frequencies possible in the plastic; must be mounted in such a way that it remains perfectly centered at the resting point, with relation magnet to coils...
Third on the list as usual is Math 1a with 499. The appearance in fourth place of the occasionally given English 151, The 19th Century Novel, with 464 students, is a complete surprise, revealing the demand for a course of this type...