Universities are more than engines propelling us into a bold new future. They are also living history. A college campus serves as a repository for the memories of countless students, staff, and faculty who have passed through its halls. The history of a university resides not just in its archives but also in the place itself—the walkways and bridges, the libraries and classrooms, the gardens and creeks winding their way across campus. To think of Emory as place, as Hauk invites you to do, is not only to consider its geography and its architecture (the lay of the land and the built-up spaces its people inhabit) but also to imagine how the external, constructed world can cultivate an internal world of wonder and purpose and responsibility—in short, how a landscape creates meaning. Emory as Place offers physical, though mute, evidence of how landscape and population have shaped each other over decades of debate about architecture, curriculum, and resources. More than that, the physical development of the place mirrors the university’s awareness of itself as an arena of tension between the past and the future—even between the past and the present, between what the university has been and what it now purports or intends to be, through its spaces. Most of all, thinking of Emory as place suggests a way to get at the core meaning of an institution as large, diverse, complex, and tentacled as a modern research university.

This book is designed to introduce your child to the power of memory. For most of us, that ability is untapped, or at least not developed. Some people appear to have innately good memories; others poor ones. The truth is that every person's memory can improve with proper training. Memory training is not difficult. In fact, it can be really fun. The techniques involved are not a secret; they have been around for centuries. Many books explain and illustrate these memory techniques. For some reason, however, memory training has never been introduced as a regular part of American education. That fact is quite surprising, considering how fundamental memory is to all other learning. This book seeks to awaken an awareness in your child, and in you, of what great potential our memories have. That potential, once developed, can transform hours of difficult rote memorization into easy and enjoyable learning. It can help your child excel in school and, most importantly, help avoid a very basic stumbling block that trips up many otherwise intelligent children (and adults): the inability to retain and recall information. Of course, developing one's memory-even if done in an imaginative, enjoyable way-takes time and practice. Merely understanding the concept of how memory techniques work is not enough. For example, you might realize after reading this book that one way to avoid misplacing your keys is to form a quirky mental picture associating your keys with the place where you put them. Only if you make a habit of doing that each time you put your keys down, however, will the realization be helpful. Forming that habit, though, can be fun, particularly if you let your imagination go wild. Pretty soon you will find yourself forming wacky mental associations automatically, almost unconsciously. The same is true of good memory techniques-with practice they start to become automatic. If presented in the right way, your children will think of the habit as a game they enjoy playing, rather than a drill they must practice. For that reason, I urge you to select a memory book or aid carefully, to start your children early in this important and fun endeavor, and to make memory exercises a regular part of your life. Hopefully, the creative world of Memory Emory's imagination will spark your own imagination, and that of your child, and will start you both on an enjoyable and satisfying journey through memory lane.

Provides a look at Emory University from the students' viewpoint.

Includes alphabetical list of all living (as of 1910) Emory grads since 1841, as well as occupational data and city of residence. Also includes faculty, college calendar (1909-1910), and a historical sketch of Emory College. Useful for social historians, those interested in the history of Emory, and genealogists and family historians with an Emory connection.

Soldier and explorer William H. Emory traveled the length and breadth of the United States and participated in some of the most significant events of the nineteenth century. This first complete biography of Emory offers new insight on this often overlooked figure and provides an important look at an expanding America. Emory was a West Point graduate who became a civil engineer with the newly formed Corps of Topographical Engineers. He was selected to accompany Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West in their trek to California in 1846, and his map from that expedition helped guide Forty-Niners bound for the goldfields. He then worked for nine years on the new border between the United States and Mexico. When the Civil War broke out, he commanded a regiment defending Washington, D.C., and later saw action at Manassas, in the Red River campaign, and in the Shenandoah Valley, where he served under Phil Sheridan. This biography draws on Emory's personal papers to reveal other significant episodes of his life. While commanding a cavalry unit in the Indian Territory, he was the only officer to bring an entire command out of insurrectionary territory; in hostile action of a different kind, he was a major witness in the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson and offered testimony that helped save the president. William H. Emory: Soldier-Scientist is an important resource for scholars of western expansion and the Civil War. More than that, it is a rousing story of an unsung but distinguished hero of his age.