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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 4: cadet at the United States Military Academy (search)
t difficult of our course was the second class year, and the most trying study of that year was Bartlett's Mechanics, usually denominated The application of algebra to Geometry. Professor Bartlett wProfessor Bartlett was a man of great research and very able in the preparation of text-books, but he was of a nervous temperament and not a very successful instructor on that account. His digestion was so bad at one tion. I remained after the class had gone so as to have a talk with him, and I said to him: Professor Bartlett, I have a good mathematical mind, but I move slowly through a demonstration. If you hurryit is very plain to your mind, but not to ours (referring to myself and fellow cadets). Professor Bartlett instantly changed. He was kindness itself, and said that I was right and that he would trhe recitation and sometimes simply looking on and listening to the questions and answers. Professor Bartlett usually deviated from this custom. I did not succeed so well in English studies, as the