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In Sanders Theatre last evening, Professor A. Loissette spoke to a good-sized audience on "The Improvement of the Memory." It is the practical work of the improvement of the memory to which I have devoted myself. Let us begin by understanding what memory means. My definition is as follows...
First class. - When the first impression is weak and the revival of the experience is also weak, owing to slight attention, a very poor memory results.
Second class. - When the first impression is weak and the revival is good, a memory which acts slowly but surely results. To this class belong the plodders, those who have difficulty in mastering a subject but once mastered, always mastered.
The popularity of Professor Emerton's lectures was well attested yesterday afternoon by the large number present at the first of his series of four lectures on the Study and Teaching of History. He said: The lectures to which I invite your attention are a part of the new pedagogic...
About "Bob's Particular Friend, Miss Shepard" we are rather at loss what to say. The story seemed interesting enough as it progressed, and parts of it, - the paragraph describing the "tea," for instance, were delightfully descriptive, yet the general impression left by the story was unsatisfactory. The trouble seems...