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CAMBRIDGE—In the last local examination 17 per cent, of those Juniors who sent up papers in Trigonometry obtained no marks, although some questions were of the very simplest nature. Among the Seniors Hydrostatics produced unsatisfactory answers. Many candidates had no ideas worth the ame about pressure at a point, density, specific gravity, and weight. This is due partly to corresponding imperfections in some current text-books, and partly to the habit of teaching Hydrostatics apart from general physics or practical applications. The answers in Statics were the least satisfactory; yet according to the examiner there are few subjects in which good teaching tells more quickly than in elementary mechanics. Thus many who passed did very good papers.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 27, 498–499 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027498b0
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