Word: digestion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...understanding of the great financial, political, and social problems which public men are called upon to solve. Such information, however, we are left to pick out for ourselves; and since we are obliged, in order to get at the precious bits which are of actual use, to take and digest an elective course for the whole year, we get all that book knowledge which, when without the power of practical application, is the bane of college graduates; while, to acquire this power, we have no instruction at all. The most important part of our education is left...
Both systems plan to give the student such a mastery of the principles of the law that he may be able to apply them with constant facility and certainty to the ever-tangled skein of human affairs. Both would dissuade the student from making himself a digest of legal propositions with a limited knowledge of the reasons why they exist. But they differ widely in the method by which they would produce this same result. The old system taught by deduction, giving principles and then substantiating them by cases and reasoning. The new system teaches by induction, giving cases...
These evening lectures would offer the means of freeing one's self from the embarrassment of ignorance on common subjects of discussion which many a graduate must feel without them. Many would receive and digest information thus given, who would not have time after regular work to glean it for themselves...
...congratulate the students of the Northwestern College on their Professor (of Rhetoric?). He says: "You do not digest sufficiently the literary food you take into your stomach, and it consequently remains raw, and retains its original nature." It must be very disagreeable...
...study is the most important and useful, and what we had better "get up" for the examination. It seems as if our common sense should tell us, in answer to this question, that it is best to make a complete review of the subject, and to master thoroughly a digest of the most important parts, and of those to which the most attention has been directed, giving an undue prominence to no single feature of the course...