Word: minds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Brown beat Harvard on Saturday last, at Providence, in a tremendously exciting game of eleven innings, - 4 to 3. The game was interesting from the start as the nines both had the game of the week previous in mind, and played as hard as possible. Woodcock took Sexton's place as pitcher, with Tenney behind the bat. Highlands and Upton were the battery for Harvard. Neither team did much hitting, and with the exception of one or two innings went out in one, two, three order. The features of the game were Corbett's throw to the plate of Cook...
...outcome of the psychology, to which hypnotism adds its weight, is states of mind, evolution of these states, relativity of one knowledge, necessity of the will. If we are not satisfied with this, philosophy is before us. The only philosophy that has anything more to say is idealism. The more we see the illusion in looking for gaps in the real world, so much more likely are we to turn to the ideal...
...good-sized audience on "The Improvement of the Memory." It is the practical work of the improvement of the memory to which I have devoted myself. Let us begin by understanding what memory means. My definition is as follows: Memory is the revival to consciousness of a previous mind experience. There are two stages in every act of memorizing; - first the experience, and secondly, the revival of that experience. In order to arrive at any proficiency at memorizing, attention is indispensable. There can be no first impression without attention, and the more serious the attention the more perfect the impression...
...first impression is vivid and the power of revival is prompt. This makes a good memory and is the object we are striving for. Attention governs all and it is defective attention that causes defective memories. Out of ten hours of ordinary study one really concentrates one's mind but half the time. Attention is naturally weak; strengthen it, is the best advice one can give. No power is more easily destroyed, no power may be more highly developed than that of attention...
...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 with careful attention...