WE wish to call attention to the amount of work in Freshman Mathematics, which seems to be steadily increasing from year to year. The final examinations in Solid Geometry are now held at Christmas, instead of in February, as they were formerly, and three weeks are thus gained in which to proceed farther into Analytical Geometry. From the fact that more Freshmen are conditioned in Mathematics than in any other study, we infer that Mathematics are made disproportionately difficult. Indeed, it is questionable whether Analytics, for instance, will ever be of practical use to nine men out of every ten who are obliged to study them. We therefore regard the present system of requiring additional study in them as unreasonable, and should advocate deferring a portion of the Freshman Mathematical work until the Sophomore year, as there seems to be no hope of its being made optional.
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The Serenade to the Princeton Nine.
