3 December 2020 Simon Newcomb In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
3 December 2020 Simon Newcomb The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.
3 December 2020 Simon Newcomb What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
3 December 2020 Simon Newcomb My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
3 December 2020 Simon Newcomb The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
