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...sudden death of George William Sawin has deprived the college of an unusually efficient officer. Mr. Sawin was an earnest and successful student, a mathematician of promise, and a teacher of singular ability. He exerted a strong influence for good over his pupils, many of whom became his personal friends. He was cheerful, obliging, always ready to sacrifice himself for others, and to give time and labor without stint to any good cause; a devoted son, an active and public-spirited citizen, a man of high purpose, of enthusiasm, energy, and courage...
...Bardwell, an English mathematician, claims to have squared the circle after fifteen year's work. His solution is eight figures, which, in concrete shape, form a perfect cyclometer...
...engraved with a picture of University Hall, appeared in 1835. The editors in their opening address offer a very remarkable array of talent: "The frank and high-spirited son of the South, the cool and indefatigable Northerner, the poet with tremulous nerves and flashing eye, the reserved and imperturbable mathematician, the meditative and subtile metaphysician, are all for a time united and will probably impress their distinguishing peculiarities upon the work." The noticeable characteristic of this periodical was its fertility in stories, and poetry of more than ordinary merit. Among its editors who have since attained eminence were Nathan Hale...
Prof. Edward Oakley, LL. D., the eminent mathematician, was found dead in his bed Sunday morning from heart disease. He was the author of numerous and generally used works on mathematics. For the last thirty years he has been professor of mathematics in the University of Michigan...
...fourth paper on the "French and English" is presented by Mr. Hamerton. Marion Crawford begins a new story, "Paul Platoff." A strong paper on "Alexander Hamilton," a new story, "The Second Son," by M. O. W. Oliphant and T. B. Aldrich, "Marginal Notes from the Library of a Mathematician" by A. S. Hardy, are noticeable among the other papers of the number. A review of Stockton's stories and book notices complete the issue...