Word: alle
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WE are happy to see that others beside undergraduates have at length come to the conclusion that the load of mathematics under which Freshman classes have so long tottered should be considerably lessened. The Examining Committee have reported that Analytical Geometry is too difficult a study for that class, and...
All the men need to put more-vim into the catch. At present Legate, Loring, Harriman, and Preston are noticeably deficient in this respect. The frequency with which the hydraulics get out of order is a serious annoyance, and causes no little expense. At present they are the best adapted...
At the time this withdrawal took place, the Crimson expressed great regret at the loss of so valuable a study, but the matter is too serious to receive only a passing notice. There are very few among us who have not felt, to some degree, the effect of the prostration...
At Harvard College an elective course is offered in Political Economy, but it is made so difficult, and goes into details to such an extent, as to greatly diminish the number of those who take advantage of it. What is wanted is not an advanced course for the few, but...
The absence of such a course in our curriculum is all the more blameworthy and unnecessary in view of the required studies which are still retained. Will any unbiassed mind prefer Trigonometry to Political Economy, either as regards the practical utility of the study or its value in training the...