EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The paper set the freshmen in their Trigonometry examination, Saturday, was so unusually difficult as to provoke the inquiry whether our examinations ought to be given so as to test our knowledge of the subject and familiarity with its leading principles, or of its little minute, fine points and catch questions, the acquirement of which is of no practical value and only serves to obscure its more important features. No one can for a moment doubt which view is held by all fair-minded persons and by the most of oar instructors, but the paper in Freshmen Trigonometry was convincing proof that among the latter, at least, there are exceptions.

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