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...young Brooklyn boys in zoot suits, Joseph Annunziata and Neil Simonelli, never did like their old math teacher anyhow. So one day two months ago they went back to their high school and smoked in a washroom, just to be annoying. When the teacher reprimanded them and sent them packing, they got sore. Presently they returned to the school with a revolver and shot the math teacher in the back. He died in his blood on the floor of the school corridor. On such evidence the two boys, no longer in zoot suits, were last week sent to Sing Sing...
...course, whose prerequisite is a year of college math, including college algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry, admits a man to the "A" course after six months. Juniors and Seniors who have had the above subjects, plus differential and integral calculus and a year of physics, may enter the "A" course directly...
...quiet Brother John ("Old Jack") Webb was the greatest teacher Dr. Rice ever met. Webb had a wisdom bump on his forehead the size of half a walnut, used to sit talking to himself and trimming his grey beard with pocket scissors. He taught Greek, English, history, math, everything -sitting in a split-bottom chair and gently posing riddles to his pupils. Says Dr. Rice: "More Rhodes Scholars came from Webb School than from any other in the world...
...Math Favorite Course...
...course attracting the largest number of students during the first session was Mathematics SAa, with a roster of 440. English SAa and Economics SAa were next in order with enrollments of 346 and 222. During the second session Math ranked below English in total numbers, with Ec in third place as before...