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...through a great deal of trouble in the process. The 40 or 50 of these machines which are distributed throughout a number of quick-eat restaurants surrounding the Square, represent 20 years of constant improvement. They do everything from measuring coins to adding up numbers which would stump a math major; through these electrical gymnastics they have been attracting ever-increasing numbers of students to what may eventually become Harvard's major indoor sport...

Author: By Paul W. Mandol, | Title: Circling the Square Yipee Tilt! | 2/18/1949 | See Source »

...Math 1a is Third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc Rel la Usurps Popularity Crown | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foul! | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boy, 14, Is Youngest Here in Years | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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