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" or who didn’t intend to go into engineering or hard science (these students being invariably female)."

Were there no male liberal arts majors in those days, or does the author mean "female students invariably being counted among those not needing advanced math"? If the latter, can we blame it on W.H. Kirkpatrick?

Kirkpatrick was an interesting example of what someone with an anti-intellectual bias can do in a prominent educational post. Diane Ravitch has an interesting essay on the history of the progressive education movement in The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945-1980.