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...author should have explored more fully the implications of Schumpeter's definition of imperialism as an "objectless, irrational, violent disposition toward indefinite, purposeless expansion." What is implied here is the problematical contrast between absolutism's quest of glory and aggrandizement as an end in itself and the rationally oriented calculus of bourgeois capitalism. Such encomium of the profit motive strikes me as no more realistic than the Marxist interpretation of imperialism...
...Calculus theories and geometrical figures are the latest thing in intercollegiate competition. From official sources at Oberlin College comes the assertion that number one battle among mathematical sharks takes place in April...
...every American literary map. It has been there since 1915, when Poet Edgar Lee Masters published 200-odd hard-bitten epitaphs from an imaginary small-town graveyard, entitled the collection Spoon River Anthology. Bizarre in 1915, the book's candor seems natural in 1937, thus serves as a calculus of the reading public's growing ability to accept life's poison with life's meat...
...average man takes four courses at $100 per course. With roughly 32 weeks in the college year and an average of 12 classes a week, each week costs approximately $12.50 and each class $1.04 (Math. A--"An Introduction to Calculus, a knowledge of Trigonometry not required...
Another alternative has been suggested since it is often objected that Physics C is overly elementary. Were this course limited in scope and approached from the standpoint of the application of calculus to simple physical phenomena, this difficulty would be remedied. This alternation would take advantage of the long neglected Mathmatics A prerequisite for Physics C, and would give students an easy introduction to the mechanism of mathematics as an implement in problems in the physical sciences. From that point undergraduates would be fitted to be carried on with less professorial guidance...