The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-20
MEMORY.
Prof. Loizette at City Hall Last
Evening.

Prof. Loizette delivered his free lecture
at City hall last evening to an audience of
several hundred people, that included many
well known professional men and educators,
notwithstanding the disag re cable weather.
Prof. LoiZette is a fine appearing portly
gentleman. with no little dramatic ability.
and possessed of great deal of magnetism.
His subject was. ''Assimilative Memory"
and was intended to show how to prevent
the mind wandering. The Professor said
the memory was the mind which, first
received impressions, and then later re-
viyed them. He illustrated this point by
representing person gazing at pro-
cession, and the mind. through the eye.
took in the gay uniforms, saw and heard
the band, and listened to the leader give
commands to the organization. At later
date some remark or thought revived the
recollection of that procession, and again
the brightly dressed soldiers were seen. the
music of the band heard, and the COM
mander's orders reproduced through the
memory. The memory may be sensuous or
assimilative. By a sensuous memory the
speaker meant that kind that gathers all its
knowledge through the eye aid ear. He
clamined that too many children get their
schooling in this way. The teachers drill
their lessons into them, teaching the eye to
become accustomed to the letters and the
ear to their sound. AS result the intellect
takes no part in the education. Hence we
see what are called bright scholars COM
PEELED to relearn what they have studied in
order to pass an examination, while the So
called ''plodders'' who exercise their
reasoning powers to acquire their lessons
never forget them when once learned. As
an instance of the weakness of a sensuous
memory he told story of Miss Cass, a
descendent of the great Lewis Coss who be-
longed to the -four hundred'' of Detroit
and New York. 1t seems a young man, who
was very bright, but not wealthy. proposed
for her hand, and she rejected him, but
later accepted rather stupid young man
with fortune. Miss Cass hadn't the best
OF tempers at times, and this fact was
known by her friends. One day the rejected
sutton was among a party of acquaintance
and the accepted sutton happened along.
The rejected sutton asked him if he had
heard the conundrum about Miss Cass.
The other replied he had not, but wanted to
know what it was. The rejected sutton told
him: what vehicle does Miss Cass re-
answer it the .other told him: "a little
sulky."
The fiance went to Miss Cass and told
her he had heard a very witty conundrum
about her. Miss Cass didn't like the idea
very much, but asked what it was. He told
her. What vehicle does Miss Cass re-
semble," and when she asked the answer.
replied, Because she is a little buggy
Prof. LoiZette said that in the the cultiva-
ton of the sensuous memory the intellect is
left out of consideration. The mind be-
comes as it were automatic. AS a result
the intellect, which must have something to
do. goes off OH its.own hook, and what is
called mind wandering occurs. By assimila-
tive memory the intellect becomes the great
factor of memory, and preventive of mind
wandering. The eye and ear plays certain
part, but are subordinate to the intellect.
He spoke in the highest terms of the Kin
dergarten system which he considered the
most perfect way to teach the young.
The Professor said his system was in
tended to develop the mind impressions, the
power of revival of these impressions, and
the developing of attention. and to do this
he should give two courses of lectures, one
curing the next three afternoons at pm.
and the other of three:lectures at p.m., at
the Second Advent church, and that tickets
for the courses could be bought at p. M
tomorrow at the church. The lecture was
illust7 ated and punctuated by many bright
and apt stories, and by the applause of the
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