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Math. 2 is an advanced 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...
...upholders and opposers of the proposition seem to consist respectively of those who take exercise and those who do not, so the decision will probably rest, in the end, on individual convenience. We can only ask for fairness on both sides, and suggest that it may be harder for the boating-men, etc., to give up their exercise, outdoors or in, or to take it at inconvenient times, than for the hard students to make a different disposition of their hours of study...
...enough, and with the use of ponies, which many think now legitimately open to them, for a year may get on fairly. Fortunately most enter advanced a little beyond the entrance limits in mathematics, and so can get through the Freshman work in that branch. But the work grows harder as they advance, and from their very strength at entering, many fall slowly, may be, but surely, in the class...
...other hand, the Senior and Junior Classes seem to be composing themselves to harder and more careful work than they have yet undertaken, and the result cannot but be a pleasant one both to themselves and their instructors...
...that the result of the races was a great disappointment to us would be but a slight expression of the general feeling. To have the cup dashed from our lips when it so nearly touched them makes the defeat the harder to bear. But in such a defeat there is no disgrace, no blame to be attached to any one, as all who saw Harvard's last, grand burst of speed must acknowledge...