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| ====== Burial of the Conic Sections ====== | ====== Burial of the Conic Sections ====== |
| | [{{ :img_8630.jpg?400|A broadside advertising the "Concrematio Conicorum," June 15, 1857. Photo courtesy of the College Archives, student scrapbooks.}}] |
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| The "Burial of the Conic Sections" was a tradition which celebrated the completion of a particularly difficult mathematics class that covered the geometric concept of "conic sections," or sections of cones. The class marked the end of the mathematics curriculum, but "was the one with the greatest mortality rate in the College." Taking the course was a requirement of Trinity College students, dating back to 1824 when the school was still called [[washington_college|Washington College]]. | The "Burial of the Conic Sections" was a tradition which celebrated the completion of a particularly difficult mathematics class that covered the geometric concept of "conic sections," or sections of cones. The class marked the end of the mathematics curriculum, but "was the one with the greatest mortality rate in the College." Taking the course was a requirement of Trinity College students, dating back to 1824 when the school was still called [[washington_college|Washington College]]. |
| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4|The History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver, pp. 51, 108, 134, 151, 163, 224. | [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4|The History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver, pp. 51, 108, 134, 151, 163, 224. |
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| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2961&context=tripod|Trinity Tripod]], 04/07/1916. | [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.30928211 |Trinity Tripod]], 04/07/1916. |
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| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/413|Statement of Washington College]], 1824. | [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36595744 |Statement of Washington College]], 1824. |
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