Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very close to finishing it and then I'd abandon it. I'd never even read a book all the way through." Instructors from John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill.., paid regular visits to the prison, so Taylor signed up for six courses, including biology, math and Western civilization. He got straight A's. Encouraged, he moved on into black studies, logic, electronics and criminology-all courses specially sent to him by Southern Illinois. S.I.U. waived tuition and provided tapes of lectures. Taylor chose psychology as his major, "mainly because I wanted to discover what made...
Before being chosen as president on the retirement of John Sloan Dickey, a master builder who had quintupled Dartmouth's endowment to $114 million, Kemeny was widely regarded as a near genius in the field of computers and math. Now 46, he is the son of a grain dealer from Budapest who fled Nazi anti-Semitism to settle in New York in 1940. A star student in advanced math and philosophy at Princeton, Kemeny was drafted to work on the Manhattan Project, and later became Albert Einstein's assistant. In 1953, when he was 27 and a teacher...
...That more centers be set up and staffed with bilingual instructors to teach Cuban, Mexican and Puerto Rican children social studies, science and math in their native tongue. There are 42 such centers now, but they reach only about 5,000 of the estimated 100,000 Spanish-speaking children in Illinois. Formerly, the chief goal of Illinois' public schools in educating such youngsters was to teach them English, despite a dropout rate that exceeded 70% in Chicago alone...
...reasonable way to take biology as a freshman, especially if you have a burning desire to do biology then, is to take chemistry (either Nat Sci 3 or Chem 6) in the first semester and, if you manage to do honors work in both the chemistry and math courses first semester, enroll in Bio 2 during the spring. In general, however, it is wise to defer your initial bio course until sophomore year. After having taken the one-year of required biology, it is wise to take at least an additional semester of bio, which might include...
Physics should be deferred until adequate mathematics preparation has been obtained. Thus, Physics 1 is most appropriately taken after completion of Math 1, although it may be taken after only Math 1a if Math 1a is taken concurrently. Frankly, the physics requirement is perhaps the least important to the medical schools, and if any course is left to the senior year or to the summer-school session before senior year, it should be physics...