xercise?
3. What do I want you to get thorough control over?
4. What will you then be able to do?
5. The specific gravity of Iridium is 22.40, represented by the
phrase {n}o{n}e {s}e{r}iou{s}; of what use is the first "s" in
the word "serious"?
6. Why would you not give it the value of (0)?
7. Give a phrase indicating the height of the Washington Monument
(555 ft.).
8. Now correlate "Washington Monument" to the phrase you have
given.
9. Make original correlations for all the events on this page.
10. Are unfamiliar words of any help in a correlation?
11. Should they ever be used as intermediates?
12. Do you try to use as few intermediates as possible?
13. Are short ones more easily learned?

SERIAL FACTS.

There are two kinds of Serial Facts.

(1) One is where names or facts are stated in a certain order, as in
alphabetical order, for instance, and yet a different order could be
given. Lists of exceptions in Grammar are usually stated in the
alphabetical order, yet if the component parts or words of the list are
remembered, the alphabetical order is of no consequence. One teacher has
re-arranged Series in Foreign Grammars in such a manner that he finds a
natural suggestiveness between the words. No doubt such a re-arrangement
can be made, but I question whether his doing it for another would help
the latter much. For the pupil to benefit, he should re-adjust the
Series for himself. My Pupils, when trained in Analysis and Synthesis,
have no difficulty in correlating the Series just as they may find it.
No time is spent in trying to discover relations that may not exist. At
best, when found, they will be weak; but, by correlating the series
together, my Pupils make a strong and vivid relation between all of the
words of a Series to be memorised, and at the same time exercise
attention in both its functions, and increase appreciation of In., Ex.,
and Con.

1. How many kinds of Serial facts are there?
2. What are the characteristics of the first kind?
3. Is it advisable for the pupil to re-adjust Series in Foreign
Grammars?

Suppose we wish to memorise the 11 prepositions which form part of
certain Latin verbs which are followed by the dative, to wit:--_Ad._,
_Ante._, _Con._, _In._, _Inter._, _Ob._, _Post._, _Pre._, _Pro._,
_Sub._, and _Super_. This Series is usually learned by _endless
repetition_, as a succession of sounds to the ear, or sight