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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FRESHMEN not members of the advanced section in mathematics who wish to elect Mathematics 4 for the next year must study Chapters I., II., III., and V. of Salmon's Conic Sections (fifth edition), in order to prepare themselves for that course. The book should be ordered at once. - Bulletin...
...system is not a good one. In the first place the student gets but half an hour of instruction, instead of the full hour, which, when he took the course, he had every reason to suppose he would receive. Then again, when his half-hour is over, he must be an unwilling listener to instruction that, in most cases at least, can be of little use to him. Besides this, one would think that a whole hour was quite short enough time for an instructor, however full of his subject, to do justice either to himself or his class...
...than the dreary affair it has usually been. We wish, now, to urge upon all students the importance of attending it. Prize speaking is a matter of college interest, and should attract more than a handful of listeners. In other colleges it has a dignity and importance which it must lack here as long as empty benches are the only audience and no one cares to know who wins. It is to be hoped that Sanders Theatre will this year be well filled, especially if the contest can be in the evening, when the examinations and other diversions...
...School Athletes. - We see by yesterday's New York World that an athletic meeting is to be held at Mott Haven for school-boys only. Each boy entering must show a certificate of good standing signed by the master of his school. This scheme, properly carried out, should be a grand success, and will prove to be a long step in the right direction. If such schools as Exeter, St. Paul's, etc., would make more of a feature of athletic outdoor sports, - make it a part of the course, in fact, - and provide proper instructors in running, walking...
...must decline your challenge, appreciating, however, the compliment; but will here say that I am quite ready, if my college is challenged and wishes me to row, to do so for the championship of the two colleges. I am respectfully yours...