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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...confirming the memory." His scheme of mnemonics is based upon the psychological explanation of the faculty of memory. The four faculties which are especially to be cultivated by this scheme are concentration of attention, retention of the impression, reproduction and localization. Carrying out this main idea the author has constructed a number of ingenious tables or series of related objects, joining them together by what he calls "links of suggestion." These tables are to be memorized by general training. In memorizing selections of prose, the plan is to select the leading words, and from them to construct a mnemonic chain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Review. | 5/29/1889 | See Source »

ENGLISH D.Final examinations. The final examination paper will contain statements of fact from which it will be required to construct an argument in the affirmative or negative of a proposition stated. No briefs or other preparation will be required for the examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 5/25/1889 | See Source »

ENGLISH D.Final examinations. The final examination paper will contain statements of fact from which it will be required to construct an argument in the affirmative or negative of a proposition stated. No briefs or other preparation will be required for the examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 5/18/1889 | See Source »

ENGLISH D.Final examinations. The final examination paper will contain statements of fact from which it will be required to construct an argument in the affirmative or negative of a proposition stated. No briefs or other preparation will be required for the examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 5/11/1889 | See Source »

Subject: Ought the United States Government to construct an interoceanic canal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 10/17/1887 | See Source »

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