Word: maths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from the required Gen. Ed. Ahf, which has 1,234 members, Social Sciences 2 is easily tops with 578 men. The next closest is Math 1A, with 484, almost 100 fewer. Social Sciences 2 was behind Humanities 4 last year, in second place...
...from Worcester still had to catch up on freehand drawing, math and physics-things his contemporaries had learned in college but that he had to learn in Paris cram schools. He stayed up nights arguing with young moderns. He did not take easily or kindly to modern notions in architecture. "I remember arguing my head off against those fellows. I said you couldn't possibly put a glass window at the bottom of a building. It just wouldn't look as if it were going to stand...
...Orator John B. Manning smirked his way through 15 minutes of allusions to exams, football weekends, and the faculty that brought occasional giggles from classmates. He described how a history major wrote on his exam that a triple entente was a large club sandwich at the Wursthaus, a Math major proved the earth was a triangle, and an English concentrator claimed Anton Chekhov ran a delicatessen in Brooklyn...
Lehrer former Teaching Fellow, onetime section man in Math 1, and author of the "World Tree" poem--wrote the show last year, and presented it as the final lecture in Physics...
Another daring approach to exam writing involves the general technique of shifting the burden of proof from yourself to the grader. For example, you are taking a science or math exam and have gotten hopelessly snarled in a morass of partially connected figures and equations. Yet you know that the grader knows perfectly well how to solve the problem, though integration and other forms of higher mathematics have always remained a complete mystery to you. So you circle what you think is the most significant group of figures you have derived and state in the margin that "the rest...