420 Mr. tlough^s Solution of Parson's Theorem. [Dec. 1, 



fcfinlation of most of our boarding- during llic last ccnlnry in an nstnnishiiig; 



schools, or ratlicr boan!ini!,-houses, pre- dcfjri'c; and, were llio S|)Cc(ator livinfc, 



sents an odious s[tectacle. A tyrant, ig- h»! niislit find some scores of masters re- 



iioiantof the vc^y trims— moral and in- scnil)lii)LC tliose whose character he has 



tellcetnal education, and who regards his given in No. 313 of his paper, 



pupils as so many Diachines of llesh and July 27, Y. 



blood, to be kept in due movement by 

 means of force, rides witii stupid bar- 

 barity over a company of rational 

 bein;:s. Sometimes a boy of H:ood moral 

 deportment, and of a mild temper, is 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



STR, 



IT is reported that the relebrated 

 Professor Person, some years ago, 



severely whipped for the trifling fault of required a demonstration of the follow- 



drawiiig a stroke with a peii at a wrong ing theorem, in the Comhiualion Jloom 



angle! No distinction of faults is ob- of Trinity-College, Cambridge. I do 



served; he who accidentally disturbs the not entertain the least dosibt that the 



silciice of the school by drop-ping bis proposition has, before this time, been 



slate, or who soils his writing-book with repea1e<lly demonstiated in that learned 



one drop of ink, is put on the same level University; there are, however, many 



■with a boy who is a swearer, a liar, or a mathematicians ill England who have 



thief; both are puTiisi-.cd alike! The derived tiicir knowledg(? from pri\Hte 



same indecent chastisement is inflicted tuition, unassisted by collegiate cduca- 



for all oireneos, till at length the minds tion ; to such, perhaps, the theorem of 



of the pupils b(>como insensible to shame, this wonderful nian may prove acc&pta- 



and, froni being obedient aflfectionate ble ; it is therefore at your service, with 



children, they are converted into obsti- the accompanying demoiistralion. 



nate and 'leadstrong youths. Tlie moral 

 tone of their minds i,-- obliterated, and 

 the;,' enter on the world almost incapable 

 of iHstinguisliing between the odiousuess 

 of vice and the l)eauty of virtue. 



The evil of unlearned jiersons assu- 



Kendal; Nov, 2. 



J. GOUGH. 



Proposition Theorem. 

 In Siinson's Elements of Euclid, dia- 

 pram to prop, xlvii. book 1st, tlie lines 

 A L, H, and li K, intf'r>ect in all cases iu 

 inuig tlie office of teachers/ has increased one point : required the dinionstiation. 

 Demonstration, 



Tlie angle C B P is greater than a right intersect (axiom xii. 1).— Let fhetn meet 

 angle, therefore the angle FCB is less in K, and, if A L do not pass tbrouc'h K, 

 than a right angle (Euclid xxxii. book 1st); draw-K Y parallel to A L, meeting i<<" at - 

 for the same reason the angle C B K is less right ancles, in Y join Y L, and produce j 

 tbau a right angle ; therefore C F and B K AL to Q. The rnangles FB C, A B D, 



are 



