Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...daily lessons. There are very few really hard students, or else this method of cramming would be decried as much as the other. For many ideas are forced upon the memory without being understood, and whenever this is done evil surely results. My experience, which I think is not peculiar, is that it is best to neglect in great measure the recitations, till a general idea of the whole matter and of the relation of its parts to one another is impressed on the mind. Then, by several reviews, minute, thorough knowledge can be gained with great ease...
...have recently had occasion to listen to various discussions on this peculiar kind of evidence. We are sorry to say there prevails at present a custom, which is sanctioned by nothing except its age, of regarding the statement of a student as false, while of a graduate, no matter if only of six months' standing, the direct contrary is assumed. In other words, if a student be requested to make a clear statement of his case, and if it be substantiated by two or three others, it is all considered as negative testimony, and is entirely overturned...