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...parts. The physiological and the psychological sides considering memory as a "double faced unity." The system taught here does not very greatly from all the others "invented" or discovered of late years. It is a very elaborate system of forcing the mind to follow numerous links in a chain of suggestions till the final object-the thing to be remembered-is reached. The connection between these links is so slight sometimes as to be more amusing than impressive. To the reviewer's mind it takes a good memory to learn to remember according to the system here given...
LOST.- Friday afternoon on Main street between Baptist church and Beck hall a gold examined watch with gold chain and ball. Finder will be rewarded for returning to 14 Chauncy...
LOST.- On Jarvis or Holmes field, a gold watch chain. Finder please leave it at Foster's cigar store...
...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. The idea of mnemonic series is not a new one, and at first glance it seems doubtful whether this method will prove of more service than the others that have been suggested. To most minds the effort required to memorize a mnemonic chain is as great as that in learning...
...corteous treatment received from the University of Pennsylvania by our cricket eleven on the occasion of their visit to Philadelphia last Saturday, cannot fail to be gratifying to every Harvard undergraduate, and forges another link in the chain of goodwill which connects the two Universities. It is unfortunate that a return game cannot be played, as it would give the Cricket Club an opportunity to show their appreciation of the treatment accorded them. The cricket team of the University of Pennsylvania is among the strongest in this country, and their comparatively easy victory was not unexpected. Notwithstanding this, however, such...