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:li3oarNng School Mathematics. Definitions and Principles. OARDING school mathematics is the mathematics of a B boarding school. It consists of three brancbes.c-tbat of a boy's boarding school, that of a girl's boarding school, that of a co-ed boarding school. In this treatise, however, the last will always be understood to be referred to. A boarding school is a point in space. The faculty of a boarding school is identical with the school. The president of the faculty may be regarded as identical with the faculty. For the power of the remainder of the faculty is infinitesimally small compared with that of the president, so that it may be-disregarded in all calculations. The power of a faculty is ccr , where p is the number of presidcnts ; but it is easily shown p=eL. A student may be either a fractional or an integral part of a boarding school according to his "bluffing" and "kick- ing" abilities. The pull of a student is the number of degrees which he draws the faculty, or any part of it, out of its course, and varies from 0° to 360°. The grades of a student vary directly as the cube of his pull, and inversely as the square of the number of demerits which he receives. The number of demerits a student receivesvaries inversely as his pull and directly as his truthfulness. If the bluffing ability of one student equal the bluffing ability of another, but the pocket-book of the first be un- equal to the pocket-book of the second, then shall the pull of -1-166 -I-