Word: briefe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...John M. Pierce delivered a dissertation in Sever 5, last night, on "The Significance for Psychology and Philosophy of the advances thus far made in the Study of Hypnotism." His address in brief was as follows...
After some slight deviations from his main theme, in which he explained the bowed clavier, Mr. Krehbiel gave a brief history and explanation of the pianoforte. This instrument was invented almost simultaneously, by three men of different nationalities, about 1715. It was the outcome of the impatience which was felt at the limitations of the other instruments, in which no variation of volume could be secured. After the lecture, Mr. Arthur Freidheim played on a Steinway Concert Grand a number of pieces by Chopin and Liszt, showing the remarkable superiority of the pianoforte over its predecessors, in the matter...
...failure. The true teacher is born, not made, and the most pedagogy can hope to do is to give hints. The most successful adapt themselves to the state of mind of those they teach. I purpose to offer suggestions along the line of history, large and broad, but brief and general, which each will have to apply for himself. When we come where specializations are necessary, on the whole the person who knows his subject best will teach it best. Get then a comprehensive grasp of the subject you would teach. Right here lies the danger of pedagogic systems; they...
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