The Creighton Chronicle . ^service. There was a wide difference of opinion and no actionwas taken except to appoint a committee with instructions toconfer with the universities and report later to the colleges. The alumni of Fordham University recently presented tothat institution a service flag in honor of the 603 Fordhamiteswho have enlisted in their countrys service. The University of Iowa Mens Glee Club made a five hun-dred mile trip through Central and North Central Iowa duringthe recent holiday recess and returned with a balance on theright side of the ledger, as well as having had a goo
The Creighton Chronicle . ^service. There was a wide difference of opinion and no actionwas taken except to appoint a committee with instructions toconfer with the universities and report later to the colleges. The alumni of Fordham University recently presented tothat institution a service flag in honor of the 603 Fordhamiteswho have enlisted in their countrys service. The University of Iowa Mens Glee Club made a five hun-dred mile trip through Central and North Central Iowa duringthe recent holiday recess and returned with a balance on theright side of the ledger, as well as having had a good time andadvertising the university extensively. 314 THE CREIGHTON CHRONICLE A recent check made of the students in the University ofIowa shows that among the three thousand men and womenthere are eight different countries, twenty-seven states, everycounty in Iowa and practically every Iowa toA\Ti, represented. Ofthe total enrollment nearly two hundred of the students are fromoutside the state. 181. MULTIPLICATION*Wm. F. Rigge, S. J. HE title of this article may strike the reader as odd,and too elementary for a university magazine. I amsure, however, that before he has got well into thesubject, he will find it greater than he had any ideaof, and that there are or were more methods of multi-plication than the most, if not all, of us ever heard narrow down the subject, we will confine our-selves to numerical multiplication, omitting all allu-sion to algebraic, geometric and other kinds. And first let us say a word about notation. This dividesitself into pictorial, such as was used by the ancient Egyptians,in which numbers were represented by pictures of various ob-jects ; literal, in which letters of the alphabet were employed asin the Roman notation; and conventional, in which arbitrarysymbols stood for numbers as in our present Arabic two first labored under the enormous handicap that a givenpicture or letter could mean only one number. Thus in Romannotation
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