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Courses are no longer rigidly restricted to subject: they can and do roam into many other fields. "Nowadays," says Assistant Superintendent Roy Hinderman, "history teachers teach spelling, biology teachers teach spelling, and spelling teachers teach spelling." But such matters as spelling, or math, or writing, are only the beginning. Taken alone, they are, insists Kenneth Oberholtzer, just "silo education, or storing up facts." Subjects must be related to each other and to life around them. What good is history, the educators ask, unless it is tied in with current events, or with what's going on in Denver...
AMHERST, Nov. 14--If an Amherst senior flunks his math course it may mean he'll travel to Smith or Mt. Holyoke...
From here the "last" and the measurements are consulted in making a pattern for cutting out the leather uppers. The trigonometry involved would do credit to a Math 1 student. At this point, Mama's work begins; she cuts and sews the uppers to the required size. The selection and cutting of the upper is a difficult process, since all leather will stretch in one direction. The problem is to select a piece of leather with the minimum of stretch, and then cut it so that the stretching will be in the least detrimental direction...
Sever's 37 classrooms have been used mostly for courses in Math, Modern Languages, and Classics. The Fine Arts department once occupied "the Loft" on the fourth floor, in the days when the only fire escape was a series of ropes on he side of the building towards Emerson. Sever also houses a large collection of classical antiquities, including 42 portrait busts of Julius Caesar. The current refurbishing has doomed the whole collection to the attic...
...gossip, and a fresh flower in his buttonhole. To his mathematics students, he was not always so charming. He could tease or taunt them until some fled in terror. But those who stayed never forgot Professor Henderson, pacing back & forth before them, mixing Homer and Milton with his math...