Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account for the readiness with which we remember certain events which happened long ago, while we entirely forget recent occurrences. A little study shows us that the ease with which any incident is recalled depends on the strength of the impression made on our minds at the time. We remember what happened years ago, merely because it made a vivid impression on our minds...
...strength of the blending depends on the strength of the ideas. Strong impressions make strong ideas, and all we can do to facilitate remembrance is, therefore, to strengthen the impressions. This can be done in two ways, first, by concentrating the attention to as few ideas at a time as possible, and, secondly, by comparing one idea with another...
...special permission from the faculty to play on that day, and telegraphed to Cambridge to have the team come if it could reach Exeter by a certain hour in the early part of the afternoon. The combined efforts of the '91 captain and manager failed to find on the time-table the train which was scheduled to reach Exeter at the said time. Notice was thereupon sent to Exeter stating Harvard's inability to reach Exeter at the appointed hour. The Exeter manager at once sent back word to come anyway, and he again stated the time at which...
HARVARD GUITAR AND MANDOLIN CLUB.- The rehearsal tonight will be promptly at 6.45 and will be short if all the members are on time. Very important...
...Wednesday evening. The concert promises to be especially interesting, as the programme will becomposed almost wholly of new pieces. Messrs. Taylor and Atkinson of the Glee club and Mr. Lewis have written college songs of unusual merit which will be sung then by the Glee club for the first time. A novel feature of the concert will be the introduction of the Guitar and Man delin Club, which, though several years old has not yet taken part in a Glee club concert. They will accompany the Glee club in the Spanish song "Estudiantina" and will undoubtedly add much...