Word: conics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
Lectures on the conic sections will be begun in Math C next week...