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...reasons for this alarming weakness of memory, one may perhaps be found in the contempt which so many feel for the simple exercise of the retentive faculty, in comparison with the higher training to be got from the mental gymnastics of philosophy. While men are not apt to depreciate the value of their own possessions, so also they do not strive to gain that which they hold in little estimation. The old belief that a good memory was incompatible with a sound judgment has long since been exploded as contrary, not only to common sense, but to a large number...
...retain their information on any subject till twelve o'clock on the day of an annual; then, as if the pent-up knowledge was too strong for the brain that contained it, it hastens to dissipate itself and relieve the unaccustomed pressure. It is safe to say that not one tenth of what we cram for an examination ever remains by us to be of any subsequent...
...better rowed at home, and "subject to the inspection and judgment of teachers and guardians of the young men," we can only suggest the impracticability of our President being the umpire in a boat-race, or our Professors a police force to prevent pool-selling on the banks. No one denies that a regatta has many objectionable concomitants, but a slur is cast upon the collegians' character in supposing that they associate with blacklegs, or that they are at all influenced by them, when, in fact, nothing would better please the undergraduate than that such persons should be banished from...
...importance of the quality we have been speaking of being admitted, one or two suggestions as to its acquisition may, in closing, be appropriate. It is tolerably well established that the memory can be cultivated. With the methods of doing this, as described in the books, we are all sufficiently familiar, whatever doubts we may have in our own minds as to some of the astonishing results so gravely chronicled by observers more credulous than credible. Still, it is natural to suppose that the faculty of memory, like any other, can be developed by exercise...
...role of visitors in Cambridge, knocked at a student's door, and to the repeated summons of "Come in!" only knocked again, when they were finally greeted with an oath. It is perfectly clear to all that swearing is a vulgar and useless habit, and we are sorry that one of our number has been betrayed into it, especially before ladies; and we hope that the fitness of polite communication will be clear to the offender in future, and that no similar complaint will again reach...