Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pikes Peak Nugget, Vol. 21: Colorado College Year Book; May 1920 Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Emeritus A. B. (amherst) '73; A. M. (harvard) '99; Ph. D. (haverford) '00; Colorado College. '77. 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.