This textbook is an arithmetic course with lessons adapted to the age, attainments, and practical experience of evening-school students. The lessons in this text represent a course sufficient in length for at least two years.

This book is intended as a guide for working adults planning to attend graduate school on a part-time basis. Written in an informal, conversational style, it begins with a review of the development of graduate school as a part-time phenomenon and the changing nature of graduate degrees, and notes that what works for master's degree study may not…