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Thence he proceeded, in 1805, to Annan Academy, where he learned to read Latin and French fluently, "some geometry, algebra, arithmetic thoroughly well, vague outlines of geography, Greek to the extent of the alphabet mainly."
'Yes, and I want to know if he may teach me algebra? continued Vava. Stella, as has been said, was a slow thinker, and the junior partner as a mathematical master was a novel and strange idea which she did not take in at once. 'I don't understand. How can Mr. Jones teach you algebra? she inquired at length.
Even Miss Pinkerton, that austere woman, ceased scolding her after the first time, and, though she no more comprehended sensibility than she did capital Algebra, gave all masters and teachers particular orders to treat Miss Sedley with the utmost gentleness, as harsh treatment was injurious to her.
All my actual travelling expenses were to be paid; the itinerary would be pursued in accordance with a plan previously laid out, and finally, I was to have for my aide, for my chief of staff as it were, Miss Charlotte Primleigh, a member of our faculty of long standing and a lady in whom firmness of character is agreeably united with indubitable qualities of the mind, particularly in the fields of algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
In algebra they are often called X, Y, Z. But these are only their Christian names, and they are really the same people.
It's like one of those queer problems in geometry, or is it algebra, where things that are equal to the same thing are equal to each other," and she laughed with just the hint of hysteria. "But what are we to do?" demanded Grace. "I am so hungry, and I know there were chicken sandwiches, and olives, in that lunch. Oh, Mollie!" "Oh, Mollie!" mocked the negligent one.
He was about to call the master of the ceremonies, and summon a consistory, when the door was burst open, and seven cardinals, brandishing poniards, rushed into the room. “Down with the sorcerer!” they cried, as they seized and gagged him. “Death to the Saracen!” “Practises algebra, and other devilish arts!” “Knows Greek!” “Talks Arabic!” “Reads Hebrew!” “Burn him!” “Smother him!”
I do not here refer to the fact that all quantities, as such, are subject to the rules of arithmetic and algebra, and are therefore capable of being submitted to those dry calculations which represent, to so many minds, their only idea of mathematics. The human mind is seldom satisfied, and is certainly never exercising its highest functions, when it is doing the work of a calculating machine.
And, beyond even this ... some devilish whim had betrayed him to-night into offering his time for the service and uses of the landlady's daughter in the puling matter of algebra. No ... no! He would not put that in. The girl could not be so selfish as to take advantage of his over-generous impulse.
As at West Point, the mathematics is the stumbling block of the new man at Annapolis. In the first term algebra, logarithms and geometry had to be finished, for in the second term trigonometry was the subject in mathematics. Shortly before eight in the morning the bugle call sounded for the first period of recitation. The midshipmen fell in by classes in front of Bancroft Hall.
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