Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 53: May, 1953 Few days ago a friend told me about an out-of-town A guest whom he had recently entertained. The guest was a Brown alumnus, a Deke. My friend drove him up College Hill and stopped in front of the old Deke house at No. 65. He says his guest looked up at the sign on the house and laughed and laughed. The sign on the house says Department of Mathe matlos. Although it might, it doesn't read Pure Mathe matlos. But perhaps there is nothing notable about that - the old sign-didn't read Pure dre either. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.