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CAMBRIDGE.—The Professorship of Political Economy will be filled up on Dec. 13. The Higher Local Examinations were held last June at 21 centres, and attended by 960 candidates (chiefly women), a decrease of 27. In Arithmetic the work of most of the candidates was by no means good. Euclid's propositions were well and neatly written out. In some cases attempts were made to improve upon Euclid, but usually with disastrous results. The br ok-work of Geometrical Conies was fairly done by the few who attempted it, but only one rider out of four was solved by any candidate. Only a few candidates tried Analytical Geometry, and they nearly all did badly. Some very intelligent work was sent up in Algebra and Trigonometry. In Statics and Dynamics the majority of candidates had made but little way. The attempts at Astronomy were few and generally slight. Altogether, in Group C (Mathematics), there were only 140 candidates, of whom 41 failed, 70 obtained a third class, and only 12 attained a first class.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 31, 94 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031094a0
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