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...value of good notes has been ably discussed and long and thoroughly acknowledge. If, then, as we are aware, a majority of the subjects of study in college are taught by a system of instruction from which the students' abilities to profit rests almost wholly upon his success in getting good notes at lectures, is it not all important that no expedient be left untried which can possibly aid him in this very vital part of his work? In a word, this note-taking, if I may be permitted the expression, is the wholesale industry of the college, and with...
...these days of varied amusements, and inter-collegiate sports, we can hardly appreciate the zest and spirit with which our predecessors entered into an affair of this kind, certainly setting us an example which could be followed with great profit...
...height as the top of the Museum, expect to get above the regions of intense heat; but in these expectations they are terribly disappointed. A temperature of eighty or ninety degrees, Farenheit, is too hot for the natural continuance of life, to say nothing of the gaining of profit from a lecture. In view of these facts, then, cannot more attention be given hereafter to the proper ventilation and cooling of the N. H. 4 lecture room-a room that is resorted to by one of the largest sections in college...
...even copying them after each day's lecture, is surely well repaid by what he has as a result of his labor at the end of the year. To own books is rightly deemed a great advantage. It is more true of making books. If to own is to profit. A carefully written, and thoroughly indexed note-book is invaluable. The student who knows how to take notes, and is ready to apply what he knows, can make for himself the most valuable part of his library...
...Cornell Era says of the association, "Besides holding its annual conventions, which are proving to be occasions of much interest and profit, the association desires and hopes to establish at an early date a Modern Language Journal, in which shall be centred the energies which are now divided among a variety of periodicals of a more general character. Embracing as the association does in its membership a majority of the prominent educators in modern languages in all parts of the country, it is believed that such a journal would command an able and intelligent support, and exert a powerful influence...