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...intimacies which grew up when men studied the same lessons and wrote forensics on the same subject were very close. The first duty of the undergraduate in the sixties was to make his nose reasonably comfortable on the grind stone. Few of the men then would have studied conic sections or logic if they had been left to their own choice. Few of the young men today who take pleasant courses get as good training or go out into the world with as good a preparation as the men in the sixties did. The best places in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HARVARD IN THE SIXTIES." | 4/4/1896 | See Source »

Lectures on the conic sections will be begun in Math C next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/9/1892 | See Source »

LOST-A Salmon's Conic Sections. Finder please notify Edward S. Mack, 379 Harvard street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 2/21/1888 | See Source »

...negro race than many a statesman far more famed. The college curriculum is much more advanced than might be supposed, embracing a thorough course in classical Greek, with practice in the use of the modern tongue; the study of Latin through Caesar, Tacitus, Virgil and Livy; mathematics through conic sections, with especial attention to surveying and other practical applications; and a careful and thorough study of Arabic, the language of the interior. History and the modern languages are also studied. The aim of the institution is to furnish a practical, useful education to the young men of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA-ITS COLLEGE. | 4/12/1883 | See Source »

...list of college rooms will be furnished to all who can pass a 3-hour written examination on Conic Sections. Any student failing in this will not be allowed to receive a list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW TO DRAW A ROOM; | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

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