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Professor Wiggins of Ottawa claims to have solved the problem how to trisect a given rectilineal angle. Since the time of Euclid the solution of this problem has been regarded as impossible...
...Halstead, of Princeton, is preparing a geometry. It will be based on Euclid, and is intended for colleges...
...very expensive system of buildings. It is supposed that the city of Cleveland, where it is founded-already a great centre in education-can, of course, provide for the homes of most of the students. For the college building Mr. Wade has provided an admirable site, separated only by Euclid avenue from the great buildings of the Case Institute of Applied Science. Science and philosophy-if we may use these words-have thus the opportunity to do their best in sight of each other. As soon as the endowment of $500,000 is complete, the college is to be organized...
...standard for admission at Princeton has been raised by the addition of a chapter in Hart's Rhetoric, four books of the Anabasis instead of three, the second book of Euclid, and the Quadratics of two unknown quantities...
Yours, '81."Sept. 12, 1771. Having studied late into the night last eve over that very difficult problem in Euclid, called the pons asinorum, I over-slept myself this morning beyond six o'clock. On this account I was unable to cleanse the shoes of my master F., a Senior, but was obliged to hurry to Chapel. Consequently, when I returned after breakfast, F. called me into his room, and taking down a whip he is wont to use in riding, despite my entreaties, he so belabored my shoulders that I almost fainted. This is the first occasion that...