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All Can Eat Goose.
These are simple examples of a principle which can with a little ingenuity and imagination be applied to any list to be learned.
Elevated Stations
The following illustration shows how a student learned the stations on the Northwestern elevated road in Chicago, and will give you a further example of the use of this principle:
I can see Chicago's Oak, divided between Schiller and
Kinzie, Chicago, Oak, Division, Schiller
Sedgewick for luring a bee to Halstead's willow
Sedgewick, Larrabee, Halstead willow,
center, Webster, Fullerton, writes Diversey that
Center, Webster, Fullerton, Wrightwood, Diversey,
Wellington Belmont is the clerk to add three days'
Wellington, Belmont Clark, Addison
grace to Sheridan's bill for Wilson.
Grace, to Sheridan, Buena, Wilson.
Here only the principal words of the story are used as the names to be remembered. The story simplifies the work of preparing and learning.
Learning the Presidents
A further plan is the following combination of the Reminder Picture and the Visual Story used to learn the names of the Presidents of the United States in the order of their term of service. Go over the following Story Picture, visualize it clearly and then from the picture repeat the capitalized words in their order. When you can say the list readily, either forward or backward, go over it again slowly, seeing the object and speaking the name of the President for which it is a reminder.