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Radio's shrill-voiced, incredible pundits, the Quiz Kids, last fortnight took the Army aviation cadet "screening" test, averaged a score of 101. Passing score: 80. Commented Van Dyke Tiers, 15: "Some of the math and physics problems I recognized from school before I was halfway through them." His score was 131, only 12 below the highest ever registered at the Chicago recruiting office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Quiz Kids Eclipsed | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...just a telephone call, a short beer, and back to Math...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...more adventurous trips of the summer was last Sunday's ascent of the Whitney-Gilman route on Cannon Mountain by several members of the club. First pioneered by a Harvard Math professor and member of the club back in 1930, the seven-hundred foot vertical buttress is usually considered the finest rock-climb in New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineering Club Aids National Defense Effort | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

...forming sub-classes V-1 (G) and V-1 (S), which involves many minor changes. Those in V-1 (G) are men who on the basis of the qualifying exams will transfer into V-5 or V-7 for active duty or engineering officers, this last class requiring college math and physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Announces Minor V-1 Program Changes | 8/5/1942 | See Source »

...places where shortages exist; 2) a teaching program to salvage the illiterate 10,000,000; 3) a plan to cope with teacher shortages in two critical war subjects-200 colleges and universities will give free courses this summer to convert teachers of other subjects (English, Latin, etc.) into math and physics teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Question of Priorities | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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