Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...geology building, along with his son. Not even a proffered letter from the President of the U.S. on behalf of one applicant moved M.I.T.'s Director of Admissions B. Alden Thresher ("The thicker the folder, the thicker the student"). He insisted on a letter from a math teacher instead. And the point has sunk in. Says Amherst's Dean of Admission Eugene S. Wilson: "I haven't had any payola offered to me in years-not even a chocolate...
...makeup is needed if an eighth-grader starts at once on the "solids" (English, history, math, science, foreign language), and especially on English composition. English is the key to college work; by 1970 an estimated one-fourth of applicants may be rejected because they get so little of it. This is why the most important college board exam today is the verbal aptitude test (scored from 200 to 800). Falling much below 500 is bad news-"infant damnation," cracks one educator...
There is the case of a bright small-town boy, son of a construction foreman in northern Wisconsin. He has straight A's in math and science, B's in English, and he wants to be an electrical engineer. The state university fits his pocketbook, but his dream is M.I.T. He should try M.I.T. (though his only-average college board score in English is a hazard), and he should also try Wisconsin's Ripon College (enrollment: 600). He may feel happier at Ripon because it is smaller and less expensive...
...school achievement tests, Washington students have raised their position relative to the rest of the U.S. by 14 percentile points. Hansen is still not satisfied. Beginning this year, honor students must take 16½ required annual units of work to graduate, including four years of foreign language, three of math, three of science. Next year the high school day will be lengthened by a full period for all students...
Love built his empire on a shoestring. Son of a Harvard math professor, he studied economics at Harvard ('17), helped to edit the Crimson. In World War I, as an infantry major in France, he won a citation for meritorious service. With $3,000 in Army savings, 23-year-old Spence Love went to his father's home town of Gastonia, N.C., persuaded local residents to put up another $80,000 to buy control of a clangorous old cotton mill. When cottons sagged and real estate surged in 1923, Love sold the plant for $200,000 but kept...