. History of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1914. remarks, at the end of a printed synopsis of themathematical course for the year 1834-5: Thewaste of time in many female schools, by the fash-ionable mummery of algebra, half-learned andnever applied, has caused many to ascribe thefailure in mathematics to the perversion of femalegenius, when it is drawn from elegant literature,music, painting, etc., to the severe sciences. Thetrue cause is to be found in parsimony, which ex-cludes competent teachers, badly selected subjectsand wretchedly compiled text-books. Our countryis inun
. History of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1914. remarks, at the end of a printed synopsis of themathematical course for the year 1834-5: Thewaste of time in many female schools, by the fash-ionable mummery of algebra, half-learned andnever applied, has caused many to ascribe thefailure in mathematics to the perversion of femalegenius, when it is drawn from elegant literature,music, painting, etc., to the severe sciences. Thetrue cause is to be found in parsimony, which ex-cludes competent teachers, badly selected subjectsand wretchedly compiled text-books. Our countryis inundated with wild schemes of learning; whilethe speculating book-sellers are sending theirharpie-like pedlars to rob our youth of the lastfragments of common sense. Although by the year 1829, after a trial of fouryears, it had been conclusively proved that theexperimental and demonstrative method, as theycalled it, was successful as a system of instruction,the institution had not been self-supporting. Itsfounder paid each year more than one-half of its 1i. Dormitorv, 1905-
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