Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...THEM; Practical Hints for Readers and Students. By J. C. Van Dyke: New York. Fords, Howard & Hulburt." This books contains many suggestions in regard to reading which will be found especially valuable by college students and others who have to make constant use of books. The author's treatment of such topics as novel-reading, skipping, system in reading, note-books, memorizing, night-reading, exercise and choice of books is remarkably practical. The chapter on the use of the public library is perhaps the most useful of all in the book. Many of the author's suggestions are novel...
...York Tribune says of Prof. Paine's Spring Symphony that it is a serious, important and beautiful work, and of its author that he is easily foremost of American composers...
...mistaken ideas which foreigners sometimes form of our university is well shown in a work entitled "A Traversles Unis Etats," by the Vicomte d'Haussonville, one of the French guests to the Yorktown celebration, who visited Harvard in the fall of 1881. In his book the author devotes an entire chapter to Boston, including an amusing account of his trip to Harvard. When he says that the architectural beauty of the buildings did not impress him very forcibly we can readily agree with him, but when he remarks that the students are all obliged to live in the college buildings...
...little work, which bears upon this subject and furnishes some very interesting statistics, has just been brought out by an Englishman, Mr. A. A. Reade. It is entitled "Study and Stimulants." The author has taken pains to collect personal opinions and experiences from men distinguished in literature and science, and has thereby arrived at conclusions which cannot fail to be serviceable to all brain workers. These conclusions are as follows: 1. That alcohol and tobacco are of no value to a healthy student. 2. That the most vigorous thinkers and hardest workers abstain from both stimulants. 3. That those...
...true that these conclusions are not strikingly original, but, backed as they are by the author's extensive investigations, they carry a very considerable weight. Many curious habits of students and writers are detailed. When Littre, the French philosopher, felt the strain upon his system produced by continuous thought he repaired his natural forces with doses of fruit, jelly or jam, pots of which he kept conveniently at hand in his study. Gladstone eschews tobacco and only drinks light wines. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes prefers an entirely undisturbed and unclouded brain for mental work, unstimulated by anything stronger than...