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...solution must equate the doctor's cost of getting his prolonged education,* the cost of supporting himself and family, the cost of nursing, the cost of running hospitals and the patient's income. Everyone concerned overweighs his own factors in the calculus of these variables...
...subject will always be difficult, but a few modifications in its presentation would make it attractive to the ambitious student, who could hardly be expected to learn calculus by himself. If assignments were made farther in advance, an occasional cut would not be as disastrous as it now is. The major defect of the course, however, is the large amount of time necessary to do the problems. Often, after the student has visualized the problem and set up the equation, he will have to spend an hour juggling algebraic equations and invoking trigonometric identities which may be good practice...
Fortunately the question remained purely academic. Lloyd George did not die. His urethra was explored by skillful Dr. John Swift Joly (author of Stone and Calculus Disease of the Urinary Organs). While King George's physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, nodded sagely over the operating table, the learned medicos removed his prostate gland. Next day David Lloyd George was sucking tea through a goose-necked tube...
...washing machines, in personnel management or building subways. Latin and Greek, either by a knowledge of the languages themselves or a complete familiarity with classical culture, are of no more use to him as working tools in the pursuit of any of these occupations than are Sanskrit, the differential calculus, or a good course in rentgenology...
Professor Huntington observed that a few decades ago only a few vallant and exceptional students "ever dared rise to such dizzy heights" as the study of differential and integral calculus, but that today the calculus is merely the starting point in college mathematics. The march of modern science has erased from the mathematical specialist the stain of being "queer...