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“THE first four books of Euclid: or the principal properties of triangles, and of squares and other parallelograms treated geometrically: the principal properties of the circle and its inscribed and circumscribed figures treated geometrically.” Such is the wording of the programme put forth by the University of London, of the Mathematical portion of the examination for matriculation candidates. Whether the papers have ever been drawn up in accordance with it I cannot say, but certainly my experience for the last four or five years has led me to believe that the alternative side has, of late, at least, been altogether ignored.
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TUCKER, R. Euclid as a Text-Book. Nature 1, 534 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001534b0
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