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...course in Analytic Geometry. Salmon's Conic Sections, one of the best mathematical text-books in any language, is used in connection with lectures. This course is generally found harder than 1, and students who mean to take the two electives in successive years are advised to take 1 first. Course 2 may be followed...
Math. 3 is intended, in the first place, for students who wish to keep up a year of elective Mathematics, but prefer to confine themselves to the applications of the elementary branches. This course is also especially useful to students of Astronomy, and may advantageously be taken by mathematical students in addition to some of the more theoretical courses. General students will do well to take 1, 2, and 3, or two of them, in successive years...
...first number of the Purdue has reached us from Indiana. The most interesting passage which it contains may be seen in the subjoined extract...
...History, Course VI. of 1874-75, "Modern History" (seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth) is withdrawn until 1876-77; the other courses are like those of the present year. The want of a new elective in History is noticed elsewhere. In Mathematics there are ten courses offered, with some changes in the more advanced. A new elective is given in Physics; Natural History remains unaltered; while the courses in Chemistry, being as nearly perfect as possible, have undergone no particular alteration. Music has an additional elective, and Fine Arts an advanced course on the "Rise and Fall...
Professor W. Everett, being called upon to reply to the first toast of the evening, "Alma Mater," remarked that he was less in the confidence of the Old Lady than many other persons high in office; a distinction which had appeared to be recognized by the managers of the Centennial at Concord, who had provided carriages for the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard College, and requested himself and his colleagues to follow on foot! However, the College had done its going to Concord in 1776, when it moved there bodily to allow the Revolutionary army to occupy Hollis and Stoughton...