Show Marvels of Memory The newspapers arc telling of the rc inurkublo feat of a postal clerk who in a civil service examination did not make a single error in properly sorting 42000 test postal cards each representing represent-ing a poslofLiue In a certain territory assigned This was done at the rate of 3a > cards a minute Far more noteworthy thinks American Medicine Medi-cine Is the memory of an expert piano pi-ano player who will play an entire seasons sea-sons concerts without 0 note of printed print-ed music before him Ills memory is so perfect that hundreds of thousands of notes must he at the orderly and Instant in-stant disposal of his will And this is combined with a multiplicity of comhilell wlh muliplcty synchronous syn-chronous recollection of timbre tempo tem-po expression etc The mystery Is at present past the hinting of any explanation explan-ation nnd thIs fact Is as beautiful as It I Is appalling 1 shows us how far we are from any real science of psychology I ogy |