Assimilative Memory; or, How to Attend and Never Forget

5 IS REPRESENTED BY "L," because in the Roman alphabet L stood for 50, and we disregard the cipher and make it stand for 5 only--as, Oi{l} = 5. O and i, being vowels, may be _us...

REMARKS.--The pupil is presumed to have learned heretofore the series of Presidents from Washington to Grover Cleveland, and to have recited it forwards and backwards many times...

_First Exception._--From A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1700 the last three figures of the date should be expressed in the date words. {M}a{r}{s} expresses 340 and could be used to indicate...

Now, if the reader has gained a _clear conception_ of the Analytic-Synthetic and Interrogative Analysis methods, he is sure to be convinced of their undoubted superiority to the...

(4) THE PUPIL MUST SEEK _ANALYTIC_ WORDS WHICH ARE _APPROXIMATELY SPECIFIC_, AS BIRTH-DATE WORDS MUST, WHERE POSSIBLE, RELATE TO BIRTH OR JUVENILE EVENTS; MARRIAGE-DATE WORDS, T...

_Endless repetition or repeating a sentence to be memorised over and over again_ is the usual process. After one perusal, however, the mind in such a case has sated its curiosit...

Recollective Analysis, or Analysis for the purpose of helping to learn by heart, is not an originating or _manufacturing_ process. It simply _finds_ relation _already existing_...

(III.) We now proceed to learn the eighteen kings intermediate between William II. and Edward VI. We notice at once that the _first_ and _last_ of these intermediates are the _f...

=1 and 2--Con. and In.=--The Victorian Era began June 20, 1837, and an Act for the abolition of the death penalty for forgery, &c., was passed nearly a month later. Here is the...

This pair requires careful notice. "Rare" with reference to "Uncommon" means _unusual_, _seldom met_, or _unfrequent_; but considered in reference to "well done," it means _part...

(2) Nor is it to be supposed because you understand the method that it will therefore work itself. It has to be _applied_ carefully and methodically _at least once_. This necess...

We had experience in learning the Series in the first chapter that the application of the Laws of In., Ex., and Con. enable us to memorise those Series in much less time than it...

1. If "mendicants" are known to be liars, why could not "false pretences" be omitted? 2. If "vaccination" means inoculating with "cowpox," why could not "cowpox" be omitted? 3....

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11. Never try to find _analytic_ date or number words until you _know the material facts connected with the date or number_ before you. The student wishes to fix the date of Vol...

A young clergyman is very apt to imagine that he will correlate together 20 to 100 propositions in every discourse--a theoretical conjecture never verified in fact. In _practice...

--(99) A {P}rofessor's "{M}rs." {th}e{n} e{r}red = (18)93--Dec.--4--, or giving the year alone we say: {T}yndall's Wi{f}e {b}ecame a {m}ind-wanderer or {T}yndall's Wi{f}e {p}ois...