From 'The Academy Songbook', (with music) 1895. Amherst song by F. Browning, '61. Air, "Villikens and his Dinah"

Sing Tangent, Co-tangent

There was a professor in New York did dwell.
His name it was Loomis, we know him quite well,
He wrote a big treatise on angles and lines,
With chapter on spheres, surveying, and sines.
Sing tangent, co-tangent, so-secant, cosine.
Sing tangent, co-tangent, so-secant, cosine.

Prof. Coffin, from cones cut by planes that passed through,
Made all kinds of figures that ever he knew,
Some round, like an apple, some lengthened like eggs,
Some rounded like sand-hils, some pointed like pegs.
Sing origin focus, directrix, and curve. [bis]

Old Robinson added the third of the three,
An Algebra hard as the hardest could be,
With theorems difficult, problems like steel,
Intended of course for the student's good weal.
Sing Robinson, Horner , Prof. Napier, Sturm [bis]

There was a poor student in Amherst did dwell,
The first in his class, and all liked him right well;
He drank some cold conics, supposing 'twas wine,
And screeched, as he died, "I am chocked by a sine!"
Sing tangent, etc.

Beware of them sines, now my classmates, I pray,
And follow not tangents, but a straightforward way;
And then by plain sailing your port shall be made,
In a harbor of rest, by no mortal surveyed.
Sing tangent, etc.

[Put a couple spaces before the chorus lines]