Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...impression, reproduction and localization. Carrying out this main idea the author has constructed a number of ingenious tables or series of related objects, joining them together by what he calls "links of suggestion." These tables are to be memorized by general training. In memorizing selections of prose, the plan is to select the leading words, and from them to construct a mnemonic chain. The idea of mnemonic series is not a new one, and at first glance it seems doubtful whether this method will prove of more service than the others that have been suggested. To most minds the effort...
...official announcement of the plan of Clark University has been published and it gives a good idea of the work of the university as it will be carried on for a few years. The president of the university, G. Stanley Hall, will direct the department of psychology as he did at Johns Hopkins University, and will have under his personal supervision a few of the students pursuing the highest courses in this department. H. H. Donaldson, who also comes from Johns Hopkins, will be assistant professor of Neurology. Warren P. Lombard, a graduate of Harvard University, and the Harvard Medical...
...which the examination is conducted that we wish principally to speak. The plan as followed last year and to be observed this seems to us manifestly unfair and in direct contrast to the manner of conducting the examination in English D.; and it is to be regretted that in face of he evident objections to the present plan some change has not been made...
...reason why the system of handing in briefs should not be done away with and the same plan followed that worked so successfully in the senior English last year. The time and labor that must be given to the preparing of three briefs is great. and coming as the briefs do in the height of the examination season they seriously interfere with other work; and in the little time that can be given to them they are often hastily and poorly done...
...Society met for organization yesterday afternoon. The first ten from '90 are Abbot, Bayer. Darling, S. Dexter, 1st, Fairbank, Fogg, Olmstead, Post, Rose and Wardner. Mr. Post was elected secretary, and Mr. Darling member of the executive committee. Mr. H. H. Darling, secretary of the '89 society, outlined the plan of work pursued this year and recommended its continuation...