Autobiography / by Alexander Bain, LL. D., professor of logic and English, University of Aberdeen (with supplementary chapter).

  • Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903.
Date:
1904
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    for the work given out. On the first day, the competitors were allowed to remain in the College Hall from ten o’clock in the morning till midnight, and had three problems prescribed,—the most difficult that could be selected within the limits of common Algebra and Geometry, but going no higher. The second day, three other questions were prescribed; the answers being handed in at ten o’clock at night (Saturday). There was one other competitor besides myself. Of the three questions on the first day, one was the most puzzling of all the modes of constructing a triangle from given data. I ought to have been prepared with this from Simpson’s Geometry, which I had partly studied in preparing for the competition. In point of fact, however, I failed to solve it, but was quite successful with the two other: problems given out. The rival candidate succeeded with all the three, and, at the end of the day, I naturally felt very despondent. On the second day, the questions were equally difficult, and my rival failed considerably; but I was successful in them all. The bursary, accordingly, fell to me, and helped to give me a maintenance for the next two }mars, independent of private teaching or other drudgery. Another preliminary to the work of the session was the composition of an introductory lecture