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...respect the Freshman class for their pluck in attacking the calculus en masse, but we want to see them after the battle has been fought...
...Germania, for which Halm's text will be used. They will also be examined in reading and translating Latin at sight. In Mental Science, I. Herbert Spencer's First Principles. 2. Herbert Spencer's First Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1. In Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Analytics, Differential and Integral Calculus...
...only study required of the Juniors, and they will have German, Greek, Latin, Botany, Zoology, and Organic Chemistry from which to fill out the required sixteen hours. The Sophomores must take Latin, Greek, and Anatomy and Physiology, with French as a possible substitute for the latter, and Calculus for either Latin or Greek...
...down by the correspondent, were hardly satisfactory. In a measure, this unpopularity may be attributed to the way in which mathematics is taught, or to the well-grounded belief that in this department there are no soft electives, but I think it is mainly due to the fact that Calculus and Analytic Mechanics belong to the field of special study, and are not among the elements of a "liberal education." Were Mathematics 11 made ever so attractive, no one but the specialist would indulge in the festive Quaternions...
...continuation of 1. It is a combination of Courses 5 and 6 in the scheme of the current year, made with the intention of giving more space to the practical methods. This course should be taken by all who desire to gain a real and permanent mastery of the Calculus...