Excerpt from Wellesley College Annual Reports, President and Treasurer, 1904 There has been a small but good number of students study ing Italian. The work in Italian will receive great stimulus, it is hoped, from the gift of the Plimpton Library. Mathematics. - The most marked new feature of the work of the Department of Pure Mathematics during the past year has been the introduction of some work in drawing. The students are taught the simplest elements of technical drawing, which is entirely subordinate to the end sought - that of visualizing a problem - and not made an end in itself. 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.