Ogden Daily Standard | 1891-12-08 | Page 10 | Do You Know What a "Straight Angle" is? Section

10 oo 00 you know wt what ft a straight Stra leht ancl angle X IT aak ask tha the first ten people you meet what in Is a straight angle and see how many of them do not show up that hopeless look which implies a belief that there Is joke but an tin admission that they cant see it educated edited men and women e even ven boya boys but lately oil out t of the high 5 school chool will admit that a straight angle Is something they never heard of webster a dictionary ot of some standing audine Bt even in court defines an angle as a bend lend or corner the meeting of two lines that run la in different directions but now nov comes modern education tho the treat great belling selling agency for or text books and it proclaims that a straight angle not only Is but la Is nu an important factor in geometry there Is no difference between a straight angle and a straight nt line not a bit the line A ii C Is the angle A 13 C au angle is a straight hue line a bend baa has no bend to it and a corner Is as fc open aa as all outdoors dut but modern education find finds in the theoretical aarle ot of legs something to puzzle the ebil children drien and so we have a new etry a reconstruction on the customary basis of doing things differently frota rom the old way Il Hurt artford Cord courant