New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-01

realized that for the time lie was exalted to the
Level Of the cne5us ppC. wnsed oossdon of or
his pencil and paper, and wrote 'wn MS uppernost
Thought At later period Of timex de,oeratey read
ponder when he stated that the penci ed record read
strSSs % S 81 4 tat VA the animal
chews the eud and swallows It,, another IA Is unedl
must be supplied artAcaliy, or the animA pines and
sekens. II true however that the men al cnd was
IN expatatng upon topic and suddenly foEgets
the thread of his discourse. "what saying u his
inquiry. He has lost his cud. His friend suppl ed the
forgotten word phrase, its equivalent, an, the
jaws of conversation begin grinding again After kus
t Of Esd lae that have n @e &
OF thought To this question he gave an afrmstiv.
speech had recently Been pointed out by the physoo
glst not the Intercollegiate In particular spot near the
base OF the BRAIN Experiments had shown that one
tenth of second of time Is required TO communicate the
thought Of the brain to the muscles of the body and that
one onehundredth OF second was occupied In setting
those muscles into operation in accordance with the
almost invariably the same result namely giving ont
series of figures or letters in irregular succession TO
ory In nearly every case the memory thus tested will
fail between the seventh and tenth letter figure He
suspected that there might be here simple mental dyno
meter which might be Of service in testing the quaca
tons of candidates for instruction Upon the PROPOSE
it, he took the affirmative and gave several amusing IL,
Illustrations, though he suggested reduetio ad
who lounged idly around, with just mental ac-
vty enough to keep his pipe from going ought, might
cesses of unconscious thought going on exceeding in
multiplicity and frutfuness the manifold operations
Witnessed In Of busy manufactures. The topic
of fOrgetfulness was admirably boundess We think OF
three neutrality-suspicious. thoughts, word thought, and
tone thoughts Picture thoughts the most common,
and word thoughts perhaps the lowest In the scale Each
distinct from the other. You might well ask man
10 sing the ten commandments TO give him dictionary
and tell him TO describe the music OF Don JUAN DR.
Holmes concluded with the following beautiful tribute 10
the memory of the lamented Dickens: Why was our
great prose minstrel mOurned by nature and buried with
kgsi Because he undertook to vindcae humanity not
against it's maker but against ITSELF because he took the
part of his fra enemy Borrowing, dying elowcreares
against the demonologsts, who had pretended 20 write
the history Of human nature, with note that touched
the heart other had done since the Scotch peasant
was laid down slumber in the SOIL his song haowed
We not called TO over his frailties must
In remembering those OF the sweet singer OF Scot
land. But all need forgiveness, and there must he
generous fangs in every true manhood which 1t makes
Heaven itself happier TO pardon am very human,"
Dickens said of the last times met him.
And 50 feel as If might repeat few OF the lines
wrote "a certain occasion my poor tribute to the
memory of Robert Burns in tender remembrance Of
Charles Dickens.
The dissertation prizes Of the law school awarded
as follows: Three year students first to Isaac Taylor
H0ague of Cambridge second to Oliver j. Brown OF st.
Louis Two year students, first to James Jefferson
Myers of Trewsburg N " second to Julius L. Brown CT
Atlanta Ga. One year students, first to Austin q. Fox
of NewYork City; second to Marcus Rosentha OF San
Francisco.