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The 22d of February is Washington's birthday. It is observed as a legal holiday throughout the land. State and national governments unite in doing honor to the memory of almost the only man in our history concerning whose character and services there is no difference of opinion. Banks, post...
THERE seems to be among many college graduates and students a disposition, fostered, no doubt, by the character of our most popular studies, to consider as rather unworthy our notice anything so simple and rudimental as the faculty of memory. We give a great deal of time, and wisely, to...
It is a mortifying fact, but one whose truth can hardly be questioned, that, as a rule, college students have remarkably poor memories. Let any upper-class man try to recall some of the studies of his preparatory course, or even of his Freshman year, which have not been brought...
Of the 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...
Another reason of our shortness of memory is, without doubt, the practice of cramming for examinations. An impression made on the brain during the hours between midnight and morning is not likely to be of the most permanent character. The utmost ambition of some men seems to be to retain...