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...Cosine! Secant! Tangent! Sine...
...cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u, dv; slapstick, slide rule, MIT."--The school cheer for MIT, which played its first varsity football game in 87 years...
...cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u, dv; slapstick, slide rule, MIT."--The school cheer for MIT last Saturday during its first varsity football game in 87 years...
...sidelines doing push-ups when the Crimson scores, and the Harvard fans leisurely sip on their Scotch-and-waters, the Band vehemently eggs the Harvard charges onward with traditional cheers like "Shove that Ball" and "E to the x! dy! dx!/E to the y! dy!/cosine, secant, tangent, sine/three point one four one five nine/come on Harvard, give 'em the digit!" The latter cheer is called "Engineers...
...world and to himself. Thanks to the planter's own angry guilt over wenching, the Southern white woman became the object of "downright gyneolatry." In Georgia in the 1830's this toast was proposed: "Woman!!! The centre and circumference, diameter and periphery, sine tangent and secant of all our affections!" Meanwhile an exacerbated sense of honor was turned in fury against all forms of criticism. Naturally many a newspaper editor was shot. Says Cash: "The South was en route to the savage ideal: to that ideal whereunder dissent and variety are completely suppressed and men become...