"Ever since I have known something of the knowledge-seeking spirit, and the intellectual capabilities of the community…"

"The true and only practicable object of a polytechnic school is, as I conceive, the teaching, not of the minute detai…"

"Bearing in mind... how few of the almost countless products of ingenuity, even in these times, are of real and perman…"

"Among practical pursuits there are perhaps none whose dependence upon the determinations of physical science is more …"

"Instruction... essential as it is to the fullest success in the several pursuits referred to, involves... no insignif…"

"A School of practical science completely organized should... embrace full courses... in all the principles of physica…"

"First, one in which... a broad and solid foundation should be laid in general physics, including especially the mecha…"

"The other, and entirely practical department, would embrace instruction in chemical manipulation and the analysis of …"

"Second,—A course of practical, elementary mathematics..."

"The 1920s and early 1930s marked a period of consolidation within American mathematics in which many established prog…"