Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — A Queer Christmas Present. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Christmas Present.

A good story is told of a professor of mathematics in an Illinois college, who is noted for his devotion to his profession and also for his eccentricity. Desiring to make a favorite pupil a Christmas present, lie sent him a very difficult problem to solve. He liked nothing better than the disentanglement of a knotty mathematic puzzle, and took it for granted that his pupil would be delighted with his present.