Books

ALGEBRA FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS

May 1937 Robin Robinson '24
Books
ALGEBRA FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
May 1937 Robin Robinson '24

By Harley R. Willard '99, and Noah R. Bryan, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1936. pp. vii + 383. $2.00.

This book, one of whose authors is a Dartmouth alumnus, is more than just another textbook. True it covers all the material one could desire for any of the usual courses in algebra of college grade, from the simplest beginnings up through the theory of equations, determinants, partial fractions, infinite series, and the foundations of the theory of investment. It is interestingly \and capably written. It has frequent sets of problems, a list of answers, and an index.

However, the reviewer feels that the reader of this magazine will be most interested in the suggestion that this book is an excellent reference work for one who wishes to keep his algebra up to par, or who frequently finds it desirable to refer to formulas or principles which have escaped his memory through disuse. Such a Person will find this work handy, and will enjoy particularly its appearance and typography, both inside and out, which are so refreshingly unlike those of the usual algebra text.

New England Short Stories, volume 2, published by the Pontefrect Press, Boston, contains a story Milk Toast by Henry Bailey Stevens '12.

Publications of Sanford B. Hooker '09 during 1936 include the following: Twoantigens of high molecular weight: hemocyanins of limulus polyphemus and fulgurcaniculatus, reprinted from The Journalof Immunology, for January; The existence of antigenic determinants of diversespecificity in a single protein, reprinted from the same issue of the above Journal;The reaction between diptheric toxin andformaldehyde, reprinted from the August issue of The Journal of Immunology, and The plurality of streptococcal toxins, reprinted from the New England Journal ofMedicine for July.

Recent publications of Harold O. Rugg '08 are Changing governments and changing cultures; democracy versus dictatorship: the world struggle, in the series Manand his changing society, and The conquest of America; a history of Americancivilization: economic and social, which appears in the same series.

Harry W. Chase '04 is the author of Hutchins' "Higher learning" grounded, which appears in the spring 1937 issue of The American Scholar.

Jason A. Russell '20 is the author of Old fireplace dug out to get early status which appears in The New York Sun for March 20, and Are you a Yankee liomeoiuner? which appears in The Yankee for April.

The April 1 issue of the Library Journal contains an article by Edward B. Stanford '31 entitled The Paul Whiteman Collection at Williams.

The March 6 number of The Nation contains a poem, Love Poem, by Reuel Denney '32.

In the January Quarterly issue of TheJournal of Negro Education appears an article by Dr. Edward E. Redcay '27 entitled Pioneering in Negro Education. Dr. Redcay is also the author of Social Justice 50 miles from Washington which appeared in the March issue of the Crisis.

William N. Fenton 'go is the author of an article The Seneca Society of Faces reprinted from the Scientific Monthly for March, 1937.

Marshall Schacht '27 has a poem in the February 3 issue of New Masses entitled Return room. Mr. Schacht has another poem Junior executive which appears in the February 23 issue of the same magazine.