E A. Stewart MacDonald D.F.C., MD. C..M. 
     
    
   
   
    
     There was so much Math. in the exams. I have no trouble 
     
     competing in Math with high school graduates. 
     
    

    
     I went to Halifax the next day, got a boarding house 
     
     and went down to the Academy, which had the town 
     
    

    
     i clock a few yards from it. I have heard that the Academy 
     
    

    
     is no longer there. Before breakfast, I thought I would 
     
     call around and see the principal who said, ”I am glad to 
     
     see you. I want to go downtown; come in and take over 
     
     the class.” I was assigned to teach History and Geometry. 
     
     I had taught Grade X Geometry which had only 22 
     
     theorems, but to my surprise I had to know 100 theorems 
     
     and all the five books in Geometry. I started when I read 
     
     about the early educators who knew their Geometry. I 
     
     never crammed as much as I did that first night, trying to 
     
     remember all the Geometry taught, and the hundreds of 
     
     problems. I walked around with nothing in my mind but 
     
     Geometry, after teaching 200 pupils at one time. I knew all 
     
     the theorems, and all problems by pages and number. The 
     
     students were awed when they asked for any number on 
     
     any page in the five books and I could go to the blackboard 
     
     and put it on the board without checking the book. It was 
     
     the easiest teaching I had ever done. All the students were 
     
     veterans. 
     
    

    
     One day the principal, who taught Algebra, asked 
     
     me to cover for him for a class. He showed me how to do a 
     
     hard sum that a lot were asking about. When I walked into 
     
     one room one smart Alex, who later became a classmate 
     
     in medical school, who had a higher rank in the Air Force, 
     
     and who would like to be seen, asked for that problem. 
     
     I walked up to the blackboard and did it without even 
     
     looking at the book. They were so surprised, they asked for 
     
     no further help but went to the principal, Mr. Hibbard, and 
     
     asked him how I knew the pages in the Algebra book (just 
     
     luck). I also taught History in Halifax. This was very 
     
    
   
   
    
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