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...this age of topsy-turvyism, and free speech, love, art, music ad infinitum, why does not some sedate mathematics teacher, in an effort to prolong youth and a gleaming eye,--write a new Algebra book? In it he should cast aside all the pomps and vanities of the wicked world, the lusts of the flesh--as well as precedent and have Y win the race, make the money, get the largest part of the apple and marry Mrs. X. He (Y) deserves it after all these centuries...
...EDUCATION:--At Mr. Wackford Squeer's Academy, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification and every other branch of classical literature. Terms twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations and diet unparalleled...
...Pennypacker also outlined changes which had been made allowing the admission of candidates for the S.B. degree upon two years' preparation in Latin and the changes in the credit given for elementary algebra...
Mathematics. A study of the fundamental principles of mathematics (i, e, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and graphical methods) which bear on the technical work of engineers, electricians and machinists...
...artillery, in addition to the strictly coast defense guns. The course provides for two hours of physical training per week, which may take the form of athletics. A minimum of three hours a week of theoretical instruction is required, including plane and solid geometry, place and spherical trigonometry, college algebra, use of slide rule, physics, (electricity, optics, statical and dynamic mechanics, physical laboratory work, theory of errors, and thermo-dynamics), American history, English, plane surveying, gunnery, and two hours per week of military instruction during the first two years. All these courses, except gunnery and the basic military course, will...