Faculty report and worksheet by James Hayward, College Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1826 October.

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Faculty report and worksheet by James Hayward, College Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1826 October.

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This collection contains a report to the Visitors Committee of the Board of Overseers and a worksheet recounting James Hayward's activities as College Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard. The report records the number of seniors and juniors given instruction by Hayward, the number of exercises presented, the length of each exercise, and notes the academic progress made by each class. Hayward's report also notes the various subjects studied by his students during the school year. For example, seniors received practical lessons in surveying and the art of measuring and also studied electricity, magnetism, electro-magnetism, optics, and mechanics. Juniors examined projection, the measurement of time, navigation, nautical astronomy, surveying, leveling, applied mathematics, calculus, and natural philosophy. Hayward closes his report by suggesting that the Department establish a collection of instruments that would offer a more practical method of demonstrating mathematical principles to students and which would "save much labour, and prevent discouragement and disgust." The worksheet accompanying the report notes the geometry, surveying, topography, optics, and descriptive and analytical geometry textbooks that were used in each of Hayward's mathematics and natural philosophy classes; the number of students Hayward taught in each class, the number of student divisions, and the number of pages in each textbook that were read.

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