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...almost any work which treats of the art of disciplining the memory, it will be found that whatever method succeeds in presenting before the mind the desired fact in an interesting, lively manner is, on the whole, the most certain of successful operation. And so in history it is generally acknowledged that, after fixing firmly in the mind the main facts to be remembered, whatever serves to engage the attention or provoke the imagination changes what otherwise might be a dull chronicle, burdensome to the memory, into a pleasant reminiscence, almost personal in its character, which will never be forgotten...
...lectures, that no time is left to learn their application. As a result, the difficulty of the study is greatly increased, and it becomes impossible to retain what it has cost so much labor to master. This lack of practical drill is the great fault of the whole system. Students hardly ever acquire any facility in the use of Mathematics. Men cannot be expected to elect a subject which is sure to bring them so much hard, dry work and such unsatisfactory results...
...uplifted" instead of "unuplifted," which spoils not only Wordsworth's meaning and metre, but the argument to illustrate which the writer uses the lines. The Yale Lit. is really very interesting; we must not judge of Yale from the Courant and Record. On the whole, college magazines are not nearly so objectionable as college papers...
...known for his steadfastness of purpose, - a quality to which he owed much of his success in life. He was one of the most, but not the most brilliant writer in his class; and his extreme fondness for oratory foreshadowed to some extent his future career. Yet, on the whole, there are many men in college to-day whose success, as far as one can tell, is far more assured than was Sumner's during his college life...
...possibly ignorance of this imperishable glory awaiting the victors which, aided by a glut of beer-mugs, has made the interest in the clubs so small this year. This whole matter of the clubs presents a problem which puzzles the most astute boating men. The handiest reason for the rapid decline in interest is the much-worn "Harvard indifference." It seems probable that the high state of civilization which we have here attained is antagonistic to boating. As proof of this is brought forward the fact that the Weld Club, which, since Beck Hall was included in it, has represented...