Word: authority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Monthly for June contains more variety in its articles than most of the numbers this term, though they tend as frequently towards literary subjects. The graduate article is a timely contribution by Professor F. W. Taussig on "Political Economy and Business," since, as the author writes, "nearly every undergraduate takes a course in Political Economy sooner or later in his college career," it will aid many students in their choice of electives to be informed of the real relation of this study to after life. Professor Taussig shows that it "is concerned little, if at all, with the individual...
...Stevenson's Impressionism" is contributed by H. T. Perry. After defining as far as possible, impressionism, the author takes up Stevenson's works in detail and shows to how great an extent this quality exists in each. He concludes that Stevenson makes only legitimate use of impressionism, and that chiefly in his earlier works...
...small pamphlet entitled Roster for Athletic Training, by Dr. Shell of Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, has just been published. The object of the author was to introduce some systematic way of training for those who are without a regular trainer, since as the article says there are so many enthusiastic athletes who, without the services of a trainer, have no correct idea of the proper training dis ances, and who, accordingly, cause much injury to themselves by overstraining. The author states that exceptions may be made in individual cases to the rules set down, but in the majority of cases they...
...author presents in this book a "complete and practical system of developing and confirming the memory." His scheme of mnemonics is based upon the psychological explanation of the faculty of memory. The four faculties which are especially to be cultivated by this scheme are concentration of attention, retention of the impression, reproduction and localization. Carrying out this main idea the author has constructed a number of ingenious tables or series of related objects, joining them together by what he calls "links of suggestion." These tables are to be memorized by general training. In memorizing selections of prose, the plan...
...Edwin Arnold, the author of "The Light of Asia," has been invited to deliver two lectures in June, or, if more convenient, in October after college has reopened...