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Updated: May 9, 2025
Among the towers of Lower Manhattan, Norcross sat baring his soul; on a bench in Stuyvesant Square, Rosalie Le Grange had reported the consummation of her investigations to Dr. Walter Huntington Blake; in a back parlor of the Upper West Side, Paula Markham, with many a sidelong glance at the approaches, sat memorizing the last syllable of a set of notes on yellow legal cap paper.
=Questions and answers.= But, none the less, we proceed upon the agreeable assumption that education is the process of memorizing, and so reduce our pupils to the plane of parrots; for a parrot has a prodigious memory.
"O no, ma'am; but we learned the art of memorizing by hieroglyphics. This formed a part of our morning exercises." "Pray, my dear," said Elizabeth very gravely, "can you repeat the multiplication table throughout?" Miss Vincent hesitated. "I know very little, ma'am, of figures: our studies were in general of the highest order. But it was a charming seminary!
The situation is not like that in reading, in which a temporary lapse of attention may be remedied by turning back and rereading. In listening to a lecture, you are obliged to catch the words "on the fly." Accordingly you must develop new habits of paying attention. You will also need to develop a new technic for memorizing, especially for memorizing things heard.
Memorizing in Sunday-school. Lack of Church Discipline. One-Man System. Moves to New Liberty. Visits Mount Byrd. In the spring of 1866, we sold out at Alexandria, and spent most of the summer in Oldham county, among our friends, while I was recuperating my health.
The reason for such improvement, however, is found largely, if not wholly, in improvement in one's method of work, as will be made clear later, rather than in any increase in general retentive power. Only those things, therefore, should be memorized that are intrinsically worthy of being reproduced. By improving the method of memorizing.
Exercise 3. List the different images called up by the passage from Romeo and Juliet. Of all the mental operations employed by the student, memory is probably the one in which the greatest inefficiency is manifested. Though we often fail to realize it, much of our life is taken up with memorizing.
The figure haunted me. Finally I set myself the task of memorizing five hundred leaves. It was a gigantic undertaking, although my memory was rather above the average. I worked with unflagging assiduity for weeks and weeks. Nobody was to know of my purpose until it had been achieved. I worked so hard and was so absorbed in my task that my interest in girls lost much of its usual acuteness.
Meanwhile Joy, walking up and down in the garden paths and memorizing her part, had been found by John, who was trying to lure her off for a ride. "Nobody can find us on a galloping car," he said persuasively. But Joy was more steadfast than Phyllis. "I expect Tiddy over to rehearse with me," she said. "He will be here in about five minutes.
She appeared quite at home as she settled herself in the chair, scanning with the greatest interest the faces of the committeemen as if she were memorizing each feature for future reference. The honorable body returned her scrutiny with sharply individual emphasis.
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