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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This perhaps applies to the Mohammedan Koran, for this and the Bible are the two great religious books of the world and have made their way into the household of those who follow the Mohammedan and Christian religion respectively. The enormous influence which both these books have wrought ought to secure our undivided study. The Bible, it is true, was a Semitic book-a book of the Jews, but later it was reshaped by general Greek influence and also reinterpreted by the advancing thought of the ages. Professor Tov said that he referred especially to the English Bible...
Every student is required to follow implicitly the direction in regard to paper, folding, endorsing etc., given in the printed rules of the course...
...Davis' lecture last night before fifty members of the Electric club was especially valuable and interesting to those who haved decided on electrical engineering as a profession. His advice to such was to begin in a factory and become conversant with details, whatever branch of electricity they might afterwards follow. Then he showed a number of specifications for lighting contracts and carefully went through these commenting on the principal points; giving the benefit of his experience in the different kinds of dynamos, lamps, fuses, wires, meters, etc. The overhead system for street lighting is not per se any more dangerous...
Every student is required to follow implicitly the direction in regard to paper, folding, endorsing etc., given in the printed rules of the course...
...author divides his subject into two parts. The physiological and the psychological sides considering memory as a "double faced unity." The system taught here does not very greatly from all the others "invented" or discovered of late years. It is a very elaborate system of forcing the mind to follow numerous links in a chain of suggestions till the final object-the thing to be remembered-is reached. The connection between these links is so slight sometimes as to be more amusing than impressive. To the reviewer's mind it takes a good memory to learn to remember according...