Word: notes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...degree of S.B. in 1857. Ten years later he turned his attention to the Calumet and Hecla copper mines on Lake Superior, and in consequence of his ability, attention, devotion, and business habits made them a great financial success. Yet even at this busy period we find the dominant note of Alexander Agassiz's life continuously sounded,--the desire to add to the sum of natural knowledge...
...athlete. Though sheer "grinding" or absolute indifference to scholarship are not likely to win election, membership is within the reach of any man of good ability who is willing to do, even at some sacrifice, the best work of which he is capable. It is interesting to note that at Yale, at a recent straw vote in which the classes of '07, '11, and '14 took part, membership in Phi Beta Kappa was voted by each class to be the highest undergraduate honor, exceeding even editorship of the college papers, or the winning of the football...
...perhaps because the benefits to be obtained from the compilation of careful and complete lecture notes are so obvious, that these benefits receive but little consideration. But whether this or mere inertia be the cause, there are at all events, men who utterly neglect note taking, and many whose notes are inadequate and merely perfunctory...
...Note taking fixes the attention upon what is being said, and impresses the lecture on the memory far more effectively and permanently than does mere listening. Besides, notes often prove the means of arousing a student's interest in what had hitherto seemed a very dull course, and the better work which invariably attends increased interest consequently results. More important still, note taking teaches one to grasp the essentials and to unearth the underlying fundamentals from the mass of illustrations and illusions by which they are oftentimes obscured. Also, condensation and conciseness of expression are promoted by careful note taking...
...examination paper stands the following note: "Interpret, discuss, supply information as the case may require. Answers should be full and precise. Vague paraphrases are not acceptable. It is well to quote parallel passages...