Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carlo wasn't used to such disappointments. Back home in Jersey City he had been a real hot shot, the greatest thing since canned beer. Physics, chemistry, math; Carlo's entire life had been a segies of equations in several variables, and he had never had any problems solving them. All that stood between and a life of designing fighter planes for Grumman Aircraft was a four-year stint at college. And so he came to Harvard to pick up some culture and a little polish and a pretty girlfriend. Carlo had no pretensions. But he set out to learn...
...normal night late in reading period. Jon was studying math, and he was so immersed that he would have had to stop and check to find out what day it was, or what the weather was like outside. By one a.m. his mind had started to go numb from an overdose of theorems and problem sets...
...from down the hall, who had also just reached his saturation point in studying. After their evening's bout with formal learning both Jon and Chris just wanted to free associate. They stood by the stairwell talking about whatever popped into their minds. Jon started to tell about the math he had learned that night, but quickly got off the subject for fear that it was becoming an obsession...
...that implies they are somehow privy to the wisdom of Creation and a bunch of other theological secrets the rest of us are, quite literally, dying to be let in one. But Ignatius is especially sensitive to the "brilliant Jesuit" mystique, probably because the Jesuits aren't interested in Math teachers with extraordinary punting ability). "Harvard," I pressed on, bearing in as his defenses crumpled, "doesn't have single Jesuit. Not one. Nothing but WASP's, but they're pretty harmless...
Both courses, which are financed by the federal Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, have impressed students. Wellesley's course, for example, is oversubscribed and most of its "graduates" have subsequently braved higher-level math, statistics or economics. At a third innovator, Mills College in California, a pre-calculus program that stresses the necessity of math for many careers has helped make math the most popular subject among the 850 women undergraduates...