This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...of lectures only, but even here the student would greatly appreciate the opportunity of sharing more in the class work. From what has already been said, one might infer the nature of the preparation. With immature students a text is almost an indispensable requisite, but not so with university students, especially juniors, seniors, and graduates. Yet even with university students it will often be found helpful to have a well-chosen text, or better still to have several texts, to be used to furnish the nucleus for class reports and discussions. But the work will be greatly strengthened by carefully-prepared topical outlines, with plenty of references and some leading questions. Such an outline will be beneficial in giving direction to students, and through a proper assignment of references, every member will be responsible for some material or report outside of the main text or nucleus. In this way a large part of the entire field is gone over, and the whole class receives the benefit of what is' essential or worth while in all. It teaches students how to use a library, to extract wheat from chaff, or to discern when it is all chaff. If the instructor knows his subject, this plan will enable students to become good gleaners and to give quickly and accurately the essentials of an article. There are some subjects, as educational classics, in which a text is essential, but even here collateral reading will add TEXT OR TOPIC to the interest and benefit of the study. It is often difficult to find a good college text-book on the different professional studies, but with a good systematic outline covering the more important phases of the subject the absence of a text is of less moment. Besides, such an outline can be modified, reduced or...