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Page 114 - America for the purpose of giving national expression to the movement for reform in the teaching of mathematics, which had gained considerable headway in various parts of the country, but which lacked the power that coordination and united effort alone could give.
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Page 114 - Chairman). (Representing the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers). AC Olney, Commissioner of Secondary Education, Sacramento, California.
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Page 179 - The income of this fund has been given in small amounts to various engineering investigations by the Engineering Foundation, which is the body organized to administer the fund. Last spring the governing board of the foundation decided that it would be advisable to give the bulk of the income for the support of one major research, and they asked the National Research Council to recommend some piece of research to. be supported. During the war the National Research Council had organized a committee...
Page 156 - Thus there is a widespread agreement among professional engineers that the college curriculum should aim to give a broad and sound training in engineering science, rather than a highly specialized training in some one narrow line; that considerable attention should be paid to humanistic studies like English, economics, sociology, and history...
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