Note XXX-17 — Chapter XXX · INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT. 1800-1887.
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In chemistry, engineering, the higher mathematics, they are deficient, and cannot compete with the universities of Nic., Salv., or Guat. They are, in fact, but little in advance of the common schools in the U. S. Still, they give promise of greater usefulness and advancement in the future. Squier's Cent. Am., 267-8.