Show HOW TO STUDY I Recently At it Harvard Haryard university t r Professor Profess r Scot Seo- Seo t veld ehi asked his class in ill comparative literature the literature the cl class s numbered over when when Aristotle lived NOt one could answer When the professor fur far I 1 asked bow how many lan thought he was born born- after i 1840 six of them h held ld up their hands hands' 1 Deferring to fo this he the Illustrated Magazine agazine asks lies S the fault with the tIle college or 01 th the f A preparatory I f. f school 1 Both are certainly delinquent 1 th the former in not noL d demanding a il modicum of gen gen- cral eril knowledge of subjects other than algebra and 4 J. J Latin ti RU and the latter i in iii i allowing students to leave its walls y with vacuous brains It is for the college I j I man IQ wake up 11 There is need of a little Ic less s int in in- t in jn football for which seven ninety out of every ever hll hundred 1 re of f c not the excuse offered by l t pla playing in and Jda ancla a little more interest int in mundane outside ou out out- side sidd affairs th the tho knowledge of f which goes to maKeI make I up lip a broad minded minde well educated man It is the i lack of this broad broa interest among man many Harvard 1 undergraduates which is sometimes of under un- un f der the name Jame of ot Harvard indifference l The Jt original fault was with the men or women j i who heard the e first history recitations of those stu- stu j dents s The rhe pupils came into the class loaded up 5 4 with a n. n history lesson recited it t. t no questions i were wele asked the lie whole thing was was' forgotten within i a month l by tenths nine of th the class J But But suppose when t the e class had bad finished the hau hH said You Yon have told me a few facts V about Aristotle when he lie was born when lw he hc dieli and aud others but can un any ziny of you ou tell me what hat there was was' about Aristotle to cau cause him to- to tobe be c singled out o r fr all h th the e men day day- day and an and l tw w n nt nt n- n t two ty-two hundred years c Then that teacher would t have been obliged to Jo c. c explain to the class that Aris- Aris t vs AV ns s' s Greek a a Greek ph philosopher sOI hel the foremost of r his of Alexander the Great he hc fired age age- that as tutor tutOI o f t 4 that youth with an ambition led lcd him him to c eon con n- n 1 luer the world that so superior was he lie to his i fellow v men that even en the great leat Goethe Goethe- studying J i his character l' l after after- he lie had been lust dust for fOl more th than two years calS declared declare that he the j 2 master r builder among men that at t his hands sei J enec first received systematic treatment and meth- meth ad od that moreover mOlCO he waS vas an authority o on on orator oratory i j t rhetoric ri poetry p tr r and prose indeed that lila brain braini 1 i sc n cd the cube of all knowledge that had 1181 all manuscripts been stricken from the world orld he hc with a good stenographer h r could have supplied the enc euce cued and nd Ht literature needed and in better form than i it ever eyer before had been presented and to this this- day dayh dayis ay ayr r h is IS held as the greatest reat t of all ancient scholars and j j men and possibly l the thc man of the he finest t. t bl brain in of i myriads of who m hio have I ave walked w lk their l little round Oil on onearth earth 1 That would woul have hu required lequir d five fhe minutes on the thc part of that teacher but hut had Ite that f five fc c mim minutes cs in that t wt way li his s class clas would never l have c forgotten forgotten for for- gotten ot n what hl said rather lather they would have had for I their next nt n days day's da s lesson better they would have been bette fitted to enter r upon a higher course v of study and ard would today bo be astl vastly more scholars lal's not only in ill hi tOJ hut mt in 1 t. t h t history n every new that they have c r lp l d with since mcc beaus bc- bc be aus from that l lesson they would hate begun to learn lr how ow to I t 1 w study |