Word: personal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fresh from the English trenches in France, Captain Ian Hay Beith has come to America to resume in person his lively and picturesque narrative of the "First Hundred Thousand--still first", as he touchingly puts it at the close of his book, but, alas, no longer The Hundred Thousand. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in a well-known Highland regiment, in spite of the fact that his thirty-eight years put him almost over the age limit for military service. Then came six months of arduous training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection...
...repetition of the Christmas service for children will be given on Thursday, afternoon, December 21, at 4.45 o'clock. An invitation is extended to all children of families connected with the University, who in attending are to be accompanied by an older person...
...fact that it was not only a pioneer in the cause of popular education in this country but that its educational institutions are second to none in the whole broad land. It is, therefore, a bit startling, to express it mildly, to hear from no less distinguished a person than the Rev. Billy Sunday now conducting a revival in the very shadow of Harvard University, that New England colleges are the "rottenest" in the country. The noted revivalist is quoted, in the news-paper reports of his sermon to mothers last Friday, as saying: "There are damnable things being taught...
...memory as a means instead of an end is a faculty--that is rarely used to qualify the accuracy of a person's memory per se. We are wont to esteem highly and without discrimination those whose powers of recollection are well nigh faultless, and yet of what merit is the mind that can only imitate and plagiarize? To store up mere facts and uncorrelated details is worse than useless. The natural limits of mental capacity are soon over-run, and there is no room to cultivate original thought and imagination. A machine's efficiency is determined by the ratio...
...specific experiences and consign to memory only the fundamental and basic principles essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which to place parcels not be used until taken out, but rather an incubator in which you place the eggs and from which you extract the chicks...