FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES BY WILLIAM FREELAND, A.B. HEAD MASTER OF THE HARVARD SCHOOL, NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK AND LONDON Educ T 128,95,410 Harvard University, TRANSFERRED TO HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY APR 15 1921 COPYRIGHT, 1895, TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & Co., NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A. PREFACE. THIS book is designed to meet the requirements of those students who present themselves for the maximum courses in college entrance examinations, and to furnish a course in Freshman work for students who have advanced through the subject of Quadratics only. Great care has been taken to cover the entire ground necessary for such work. Needless space has not been given to preliminary explanations, as it is assumed that boys and young men who begin to read Algebra have, in every case, had the proper grounding in Arithmetic. The examples have been so selected and graded that the student will have no difficulty in proceeding step by step through the entire work. The author has been, mindful to introduce examples and problems to such an extent only as will allow the completion of each exercise as it presents itself. The course, as here presented, can be finished by mature boys in a single year, and by boys who begin the subject at the age of fourteen or fifteen in two years. With the exception of two or three instances, no claim to originality is made. The examples, when not original, V |