Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...electors take into account success in winning prizes for essays, in debating, and in other intellectual activities. In no case are purely personal grounds, -- matters of likes and dislikes,--considered at all; but a continuous effort is made to recognize real ability and intellectual command, as opposed to mere "grinding...
...operation is the very essence of success in any such enterprise as the present one, especially where everything is voluntary on both sides. The acceptance of the invitation was not a mere favor; it imposed a moral obligation to live up to one's word, to do that which shall make these weekly discussions--which, by the way, last but one hour and will be held weekly up to the 'April vacation only--a source of mutual benefit. The class meet this evening in the Parlor of Books House at 7.30. E. ANGELL...
...perhaps because the benefits to be obtained from the compilation of careful and complete lecture notes are so obvious, that these benefits receive but little consideration. But whether this or mere inertia be the cause, there are at all events, men who utterly neglect note taking, and many whose notes are inadequate and merely perfunctory...
Note taking fixes the attention upon what is being said, and impresses the lecture on the memory far more effectively and permanently than does mere listening. Besides, notes often prove the means of arousing a student's interest in what had hitherto seemed a very dull course, and the better work which invariably attends increased interest consequently results. More important still, note taking teaches one to grasp the essentials and to unearth the underlying fundamentals from the mass of illustrations and illusions by which they are oftentimes obscured. Also, condensation and conciseness of expression are promoted by careful note taking...
...those of us now enrolled in English 2 came a great shock through Saturday's communication. We were dismayed to learn, from "A Senior" that Shakspere was the author of so many "microscopic and insignificant phrases," that the training of our memories is of mere "incidental" importance, and that English 2 did not test our culture. Ah, this last was "the most unkindest...