Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...many methods of memorizing such as by writing down, or relating an event immediately after it has happened are practically valueless to the majority of people. In Lord Bacon's definition of education, one approximates the true theory. Education, he says, is the cultivation of a just and legitimate familiarity between mind and things. Professor Loisette advocates what he has named the analytic synthetic method. In memorizing a passage, he reduces it to the simplest statement and then by gradually adding the modifying phrases he learns the whole by association. This is the secret of his system - association - which, combined...
...Illustrations of the method drawn from the phenomena presented by winter vegetation...
...women, for several have brought new and important discoveries to bear on the movements of variable stars and planets. Mr. S. B. Whitney's article on "Surpliced Boy Choirs in America" contains a good description of the boy choirs in our principal cities, besides an account of the best method of training boys. Mr. Whitney makes mention of Appleton Chapel among others, and among the many photographs is a very good one of Willie Macdonald of Appleton Chapel. Mr. Whitney repudiates the idea that we cannot have so good boy choirs as England is noted for. Choir masters in this...
...March 28. - The modern Historical Method; its History and its Application...
...voted that the immediate members recommend to the Graduate Society, in June, that some method be provided for choosing to membership men who pass through college on what is known as the three years plan...