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...second book consists of a series of lectures drawn from a first-hand knowledge of over 40 secondary schools in England and on the continent, attempting to set forth in brief compass their existing principles and practices. "Studies and Tests on Virgil's Aeneid" involves an application to the teaching of Latin of the principles which govern the making of objective tests, and not only provides the teacher with material for a general Latin survey, but aids the student to gain a full appreciation of the poem. In "Curriculum Problems of Industrial Education," the educator faces the inaccuracies and inadequacies...
...Saturday night at the Boston Square and Compass Club, the Harvard University Orchestra, the Pierian Sodality of 1808, under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24, will give its second concert of the season. This concert, the only one during the reading period, marks the first appearance of the college year for the entire orchestra, the concert at Dunster House before the Christmas recess having been given by the string section only...
...program to be played at the Boston Square and Compass Club...
More than two thousand years Archimedes, Appolonius of Perga and many another famed Greek geometrician tried to divide an arc into three equal parts with ruler & compass. Three hundred years ago, René Descartes (1650), father of analytic geometry, proved the feat was impossible by means of the Greek instruments...
...have solved the problem but only more complicated instruments. Last in Boston, George Hurd, retired manufacturer, and Professor Harold A. Zager, Boston College mathematician, claimed that Descartes was wrong, that after ten years' study they had not only trisected but had divided arcs into other fractions with ruler & compass. They would not describe their method until it is righted...