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Methods Of English Girl Students

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Day
10
Month
February
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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The Kuglish students' power of concentration is remarkable. They respect perfectly the study hours of their friends, and will tolérate no interriiption of their own. The English excel when tried by two of Prof. Kraepelin's tests of mental capacity: amount of work done in a eiven time and power of concentration. Wherein lies their advantage? They will teil us that their strong and necessary ally is vigorous outdoor sport. The Euglish girl has, of course, kuown from childhood the habit of outdoor life. At college she plays hockey or hand polo, cricket, fives, and the games with which we are more familiar, for at least two hours a day, and oftener for a longer ime. Two hours is a minimum of time spent in exercise. At frequent intervals, usually at the end of each week, she seeks recreation from past and preparation for future effort by spending many hours in the open air, in boating on the river it may be, or in taking a tramp of thirty miles or so. During vacations she not infrequently makes walking tours of longer or shorter duration. If an English girl finds that her mind is inactive and unreceptive, she recog nizes this as an indication that it needs recreation. She drops herbooksand puts her brain in fit condition for study by some vigorous play. ' TJnder like conditions, the American student, not recognizing Nature's sigual, mentally scourges herself forduHness, and urges her jaded mind on to overexertion. I once heard an English girl assert that slie could dawdle all day, but could not study for more than two hours at a time. - From Appletons' Popular Science Monthly for February.

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Ann Arbor Courier