Word: planes
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Important changes were made in the Scientific School in 1888 89. Latin was dropped as a requirement for admission, and English and American history were substituted; these make the requirements for admission. English and American history, Algebra, plane geometry, logarithms and plane trigonometry, physics, English, and French or German. The former four years' course called Mathematics and Physics was converted into a course on Electrical Engineering...
...typographical error the CRIMSON described the new inclined plane in the gymnasium as an "enclosed place...
...fastened by hinges under the track, so that it can be raised out of the way at a moment's notice by a rope fastened to the other end, and having the other half built in sections so that it can be taken to pieces, By means of the plane the jumper can throw his weight on the spring-board with much more effect than when he had to run along the floor...
...stretched across the gymnasium a few feet off from the spring board. It will be so suspended from the running track on both sides that it can be set perpendicularly for the men to jump against, or obliquely for them to jump into. The addition of the plane and canvas will not only make the jumping more exciting but will make it much better exercise...
Students taking the mid year examination in Mathematics A will be allowed to bring to the examination a card of "Trigonometric Formulas" and a "Syllabus of a course in Plane Trigonometry" by Professor Byerly, both obtainable at the Co-operative. Tables will be furnished at the examination and no others will be allowed...