Word: math
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tensors, riemannian geometry, analytical dynamics, and general theory of elasticity. Prerequisites: A mathematical background corresponding to Applied Science 15a or Math. 10a or Physics 30a, and a knowledge of theoretical mechanics corresponding to Applied Science 46a or Physics 31 or Math...
...first article takes the young Prince through the Royal Naval College at Osborne (he had trouble with math) and to Dartmouth ("I ... even sang in the choir"). It closes in good serial form: with his grandfather on his deathbed, as the curtain came down on the Edwardian...
...made a sudden decision. "Look, Sturdy, I've been back a year now. I could have a solid job in publishing, but I want to be here. Last year I took History 1, Math 2, a couple of Philosophy courses, and got to know a few hundred people all over the College. I'm a settled married guy, but I'm eager as a kid about my reading. Listen, Sturdy, 'a voyage of discovery' isn't just words. I do huge amounts of outside reading, and find it thoroughly exciting. I'm getting to know my own University...
...make its point, The Clearing House sent out copies of the old exam to teachers from York, Pa. to Fort Worth, Tex. It was a tough one; the school kids in Springfield, Mass, who took the examination 101 years ago averaged only 40.60% in spelling, 29.40% in math. In the past eight months 20-odd schools have given the tests. Even though some words were beyond their ken, 1947-5 boys & girls batted 44.68% on such items as accessible, chirography, descendant and evanescent. In math they scored 52.16% on such questions as this: "There is a certain number, one-third...
...emergency Navy Pier campus he had made available for 3,800 ex-G.I.s, to Urbana-Champaign, 120 miles away, where he educates 18,500 more students. The high point of the day was a speech by Veterans Administrator Omar Bradley, a Stoddard friend and an old math teacher himself...