Word: math
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Math 1a is Third...
...just the kind of idea a math teacher would think up. Clearing House, a magazine for teachers, reported a proposal guaranteed to make every U.S. schoolboy master of mixed fractions within six weeks. The proposal: to revise the rules of basketball so that a field goal counts 2⅞, a free throw...
...goes to the Drama School there, and so I made up my mind. But now I don't think he's so darling any more. But I still like Drama. But there isn't any Drama at Radcliffe. Of course, I'm, interested in practically everything except science and math, but I wouldn't want to go into lit because you usually have to go for honors in lit and I wouldn't want to do that...
...Math, however, lately has turned into a bugaboo for McColl, and he plans to avoid it and science as much as possible while planning his program at the College. He intends to stress the liberal arts, with an eye to going on to law school...
Arts Later. Campbell insists that his students also take academic courses (English, math, science, social studies), encourages them to try music and art. He was pleased as punch last year when an aircraft student won the state oratory contest. Knowing that factory doors don't open so wide to Negroes, Campbell drills his students on writing letters of application and taking job tests, makes them conscious of neatness, work habits and "personality." Best measure of his success: Dunbar now takes only the top 15% of its applicants...