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How to Study, by George Fillmore Swain
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Title: How to Study
Author: George Fillmore Swain
Release Date: October 21, 2009 [EBook #30309]
Language: English
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HOW TO STUDY
BY
GEORGE FILLMORE SWAIN, LL. D.
GORDON MCKAY PROFESSOR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY; PAST-PRESIDENT, AM. SOC. C. E.; FORMERLY CHAIRMAN OF THE BOSTON TRANSIT COMMISSION; CONSULTING ENGINEER
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PREFACE
The present paper has been suggested by a long experience in teaching, in which the writer has been continually surprised at the ignorance manifested by students in the higher classes of our technical schools and universities, or graduates from such schools, with reference to proper methods of study. If his experience is a reliable guide, & large majority of the graduates from such schools, as well as some teachers in them, have not acquired proper habits and