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53--lamb 54--lair 55--lily 56--lodge 57--lake 58--leaf 59--elbow 60--chess 61--cheat 62--chain 63--sham 64--chair 65--jail 66--judge 67--jockey 68--shave 69--ship 70--eggs 71--gate 72--gun 73--comb 74--hawker 75--coal 76--cage 77--cake 78--coffee 79--cube 80--vase 81--feet 82--vein 83--fame 84--fire 85--vial 86--fish 87--fig 88--fife 89--fib 90--piles 91--putty 92--pane 93--bomb 94--bier 95--bell 96--peach 98--beef 97--book 99--pope 100--diocese [Transcriber's note: Items 21, 19, 20, 22 are shown as printed.] By the use of this table, which should be committed as thoroughly as the President series, so that it can be repeated backward and forward, any date, figure or number can be at once constructed, and bound by the usual chain to the fact which you wish it to accompany. When the student wishes to go farther and attack larger problems than the simple binding of two facts together, there is little in Loisette's system that is new, although there is much that is good. If it is a book that is to be learned as one would prepare for an examination, each chapter is to be considered separately. Of each an epitome is to be written in which the writer must exercise all of his ingenuity to reduce the matter in hand to its final skeleton of fact. This he is to commit to memory both by the use of the chain and the old system of interrogation. Suppose after much labor through a wide space of language one boils a chapter or an event down to the final irreducible sediment: "Magna Charta was exacted by the barons from King John at Runnymede." You must now turn this statement this way and that way; asking yourself about it every possible and impossible question, gravely considering the answers, and, if you find any part of it especially difficult to remember, chaining it to the question which will bring it out. Thus, "What was exacted by the barons from King John at Runnymede?" "Magna Charta." "By whom was Magna Charta exacted from King John at Runnymede?" "By the barons." "From whom was," etc., etc.? "King John." "From what king," etc., etc.? "King John." "Where was Magna Charta," etc., etc.? "At Runnymede." And so on and so on, as long as your ingenuity can suggest questions to ask, or points of view from which to consider the statement. Your mind will be finally saturated with the information, and prepared to spill it out at the first squeeze of the examiner. This, however, is not n
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