As the courses in Mat emetics are at present, arranged, it is difficult for a student, who does not offer plane trigonometry on his admission examinations to pursue a connected course in analytic geometry while in college. A student who does not offer plane trigonometry must take either plane trigonometry during his freshman year, and wait until his sophomore year before commencing analytics, or he may take an elementary course (B) in analytic geometry during his freshman year, and in that case he will find himself considerably embarrassed in pursuing the subject. For course 3 will be too advanced for him, while if he joins course C during the latter half of his sophomore year, he will find that since courses B and C are given by different professors the subject is so differently treated that he has much to learn before being on a par with his classmates.
The whole trouble arises from there being no course continuing course B This difficulty it would seem. could be easily obviated by abolishing course C, and letting all students of analytics start together in course B., and then having some new course starting from the end of course B.
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