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...more complex, grasping it requires more specialization. Colleges do their bit by making undergraduate work a mere appetizer for graduate study. "The more I learned about history at Smith," says one M.A.-bound senior, "the more I realized I didn't know." Adds Alan J. Stenger, a Michigan math major: "After a B.A. in math, you really don't have much except a solid background. It would be a shame not to use it." At Chicago, Sally Akan, who is headed for a Harvard M.A. in Chinese, remarks: "My interest lies in a field in which training...
...class because "city children rarely see one." It shuns conventional marks through the eighth grade. And yet, the school heavily emphasizes the three Rs, beginning in prekindergarten. First-graders read the newspaper, and second-graders get daily drills in public speaking. Science has always been strong; college math and physics have been offered for years...
...whole idea started when an assistant dean circulated a model constitution for student organizations and called it the charter of the Elephant Racing Club. Everett Moore, a math senior, quickly formed a club and issued race invitations...
...hardly realizes what snobs her heroes are. Heroine Brooks for example, is involved in the following episode: "As she made her way to the exit she was jostled and pushed by two boys behind her. She gathered from their conversation that they were in a hurry to get to Math 306, Vector Analysis. Their voices were course and vulgar. She shuddered to herself...
...Angeles, grew up in Las Vegas, the son of a logger who later became a railroad engineer. Ogle took calculus in high school, used a W.C.T.U. scholarship (he is no longer an abstainer) to help finance his studies at the University of Nevada, where he majored in physics and math. In his last year, he married a girl he had met in church: Johanna Wilhelmina Schouten, whose parents emigrated from Holland. In recent years, she and their five children have bravely endured both his long absences from home and his addiction to secondhand automobiles (he owns four...