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.'S o m e'tim e ago we mefttion^dVTfee W h irlw in d '< Albany High
School, and forbore criticism, saying the printer m ight dp? better
next t i m e ^ ^ e has.' The holiday number of ,The W hirlwind,-was
the neateät inz typograph, and most „ original ip, design o f any ex­
change received. , . ;And the literary m aterial w ^vsucfi‘
reflect
credit on the young ladie^, w hi? hay® mosf^of th e work to, dp,.? ■
Academia, of S t?M ary’s Academy, Portland, ma'rs in* a m eas^r^
the pleasure of reading its pages, by the repeated* use-^f
for
Christmas. The use of the abbreviation'betokens -an’'Unseemly h'aste
at least, j if not positive disrespect, änd especially* mBl donfirig ff om
the publication o f a church school,,
The Ideal Student.
The ideal % student is one 'who can wholly^ ^en^er his • attention
and thought upon the subject under discussion.. Hh is the.orie.Vvhd?
when he enters' ,the class röohi for mathematics.,¿leave's all thoughts
of everything else behind him and is conscious of nothing else but
mathem atics.” F ortunate, is the ¿one who ' possesses this degreb.pf
concentration. ¿Efo.ty, to .attain this , ^ # e r j*®Ess|g vital'¿hpint., «The
best method, probably, ispjp p ractj^y it continually?j?en'tirel-y-center­
ing one’s'a tten tio n Upon the subject at hand,.—be it a lecture, a ser­
mon or a conversation. Don’t let the mind g e t into the habit of
wandering. This habit is too hard to break. W e all know how easy
it is to find outsplves absorbed' in sphjething els§4when w c are at­
tending some lecture. The more tye allow our minds?tp wander in
this way, the mote we are lpslng. our power o f concentration^. * W e
never can do justice to two things^ if we are , trying topidp theria 4 t
once. Don’t try it'!—Exponent, M ontana Agricultural? College,
Bozeman.
T here 'a r e i'^ tte tw'pydpken standard??] okes” th at areVpassed
from paper to paper during the Vblleg'e’^year. To this number The
'Oregon M onthly yyouldv'add this, really^ true^, and original funny-
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