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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gilbert Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor. Born 38 years ago in Kansas, he graduated (1925) from the University of California, where he studied physics and mathematics. He taught math at a military academy for a year, took to writing short stories. Unwilling to capitalize on his father's fame, he used the pseudonym of "John Le Bar." Liberty found out who he was some years ago; since then he has signed his own name to his fiction...
What the N. Y. A. can offer in practical experience, the Undergraduate Faculty offers in theory. Practical experience in Radio Servicing, for instance, gets the high school graduate his first job. For advancement to Radio Engineering, however, he must have a theoretical background--Math, Physics, Chemistry--and it is courses like these that the Undergraduate Faculty can supply. A new responsibility has come to face each college. With his potential knowledge the student can take an active part in boosting the high school graduate a few rungs higher on his vocational ladder...
...Course Freshmen Enrolled % who tutor % who use notes % who use reviews % of Lectures % of Reading History 1 412 65% 57% 20% 86% 76% Math A 293 7% 7% 98% 94% French E 263 34% 20% 19% 88% 75% Gov. I 198 49% 42% 14% 86% 71% German A 174 2% 2% 93% 87% English I 141 18% 11% 10% 96% 84% Biology D 136 12% 6% 7% 96% 77% Eco. A 129 19% 16% 4% 94% 66% Chem. A 82 15% 2% 13% 99% 99% Geology I 80 16% 9% 8% 96% 78% French...
...years throws of two, three and twelve at hazard were called crabs, and to throw one of those numbers was to crab. In France the game of hazard was called krabs, and is so called in a long description of the game in the third volume of the Mathématiques group of the Encyclopeédic Méthodiqué, dates 1792. Craps as we know it today is simply a French simplification of hazard, or krabs, and the word craps, originally spelled creps or kreps, is a corruption of the English crabs. It is so defined in every...
Several other decreases were noted in the various fields. Losing one-third of its concentrators, in a drop from 15 to 10, Classics continued to fall in Freshman popularity. Fine Arts drops from 27 to 19 although the division of the Arts shows an increase. Math also suffers with a loss of seven of its concentrators...