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...much human as any other part of the languages. There has probably never been a community of men that has not had some means of intelligent communication, and the most primitive way was by pictures. These at first represented objects, then actions, then adjectives and prepositions, and finally determinatives, expressing genera and species, were introduced, which eliminated much of the former obscurity. The next stage of development was the representation by signs of syllables, instead of whole words or ideas. The final step, the employing of signs to represent single letters is no harder to trace than the preceding transitions...
...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. Its use seems more apparent...
...been written by a landscape painter, had any such the refined sentiment and deep feeling united with musical expression that Mr. Woodberry has. The North Shore Watch is a threnody for the young friend who died in '78, to whom the book is dedicated. All through the lament the final alexandrines surge and moan like the rhythmic ninth wave that beats upon every shore...
...year marks in Latin C will not affect the final marks...
Hereafter the exercise books in Math. E. will be called for every Friday and returned the following Monday. Hour examinations will take place at short intervals during the rest of the year. The final marks will depend greatly on the exercise books and hour examinations...