Word: helping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There has been placed on top of the card catalogue in the library, an index to the subject catalogue. This is bound to prove a great help to men in looking up subjects. Anyone wishing to look up the sublect of "Rivers" for example, has but to turn to "Rivers" in this index, read the number opposite (for instance 1506.2) and find the drawer in the card catalogue of subjects which contains this number (say the drawer numbered 1500.1 - 160). In this way a great deal of time spent in finding information will be saved...
...Sigma Nu Society at Yale is to sell its furniture at auction to help pay up its debts...
Much responsibility rests, too, with the management of the freshman glee club. The support of the class would be of little avail if it were not judiciously used. The managers have it in their power to make their glee club a very great help to their crew, and they should spare no pains to make the most of their opportunities...
...school library, then, is one of the most useful aids to the study of geography; another important help is a collection of maps, photographs and diagrams. The United States Coast Survey has made careful engravings of almost all parts of the American coast, and illustrations taken from these maps give a much better idea of the subject than can be gained from a very careful verbal explanation. The Scottish Geographical Magazine also contains very good maps which, mounted on cardboard make a very useful collection. Photographs, when they can be had, are an admirable means of illustration, for they...
...great difficulty in all geographical teaching is that the scholars do not get a clear idea of what the teacher means. The teacher has studied, read and travelled, but the scholars have not. Any means of illustration, therefore, which will help to present the ideas of the teacher more vividly to the scholar should be made...