Courses of Study with the Requirements for Admission

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...the following topics: the general properties of plane rectilinear figures; the circle and the measure of angles; similar polygons; areas; regular polygons, and the measure of the circle; the relations of planes and lines in space; the properties and measure of prisms, pyramids, cylinders, and cones; the sphere and the spherical triangle. The propositions required under these several heads are those only which are contained in the older treatises, and which are recognized as constituting the Elements of Geometry. The examination does not include the additions introduced into some recent text-books, although most of those additions are in themselves valuable for the student who has time and taste for extra study in this field. A syllabus of the required propositions has been prepared. This syllabus may be obtained, price 10 cents, at the Publication Office, t University Hall, Cambridge. The examination in Geometry also includes original propositions in Plane Geometry, based on the propositions named in the syllabus, and problems in mensuration in both Plane and Solid Geometry; but excellence in bookwork and in exercises immediately illustrating book work will be allowed to offset in part any lack of skill in original work. The time which it is recommended to assign to the systematic study of the requirement in Formal Geometry is the equivalent of a course of five lessons a week for one school year; but it is believed to be advisable to extend this allowance of time over two years. In place of the Harvard examination in Geometry a candidate may offer Mathematics cd, Plane and Solid Geometry, of the College Entrance Examination Board. 15. Plane Geometry. The requirement in Plane Geometry is stated on pages 1-14 of the Syllabus mentioned above. In...