1927 Oberlin Mathematics Club
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The Mathematics Club meets every two weeks throughout the school year. The first part of the meeting is always spent in a social half hour. Students and faculty here have the chance of personal acquaintance that they do not get in their class room.
After satisfying ourselves with tea and wafers, we proceed to satisfy our starving souls with mathematical pie. Nothing seems too large or too small for consideration. We pass from the orbital motion of the atom to the vastness of celestial measurements. Nothing is too practical to be void of theory, so we have applications in mechanics, architecture, engineering, and economic problems. But we do not get confused and think that we are discussing lumber problems when logs are mentioned. We know that "sign" and "sine" are not two ways of spelling the same word. And who besides a mathematician can ever be sure he doesn't mean eclips when he says ellipse? We discuss with ease not only the fourth dimension, but the fifth and sixth. Infinity and imaginaries are very real to us. Everything complex is made simple through short cuts and ingenious devices. We even have resort to the music of the spheres for we have harmonic properties always with us. And most interesting of all we learn of the little red bugs. Some have white arrows on their backs and others haven't.
The Math Club is a liberal education in itself, and sooner or later we all hope to arrive at a "modicum of mathematical maturity."
President HENRY F. ROOD
Page one hundred ninety-one
Bottom row - Wood, Brown, Holle, Roy, Kestler, Andrews, Vaughn
Second row - Williams, Eickelberger, Miss Sinclair, Spencer, Ebert
Third row - Schoeple, Christian, President King, Symons
Thanks, Sarah and David!
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