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Table of Contents With your list of key words, you can make a part of your permanent mental baggage any collection of data you wish. Obviously, usefulness will be your first criterion even in drill ing with lists of words. Scarcely less desirable is this type of one-two-three memory as a social asset—from an also-asked you can leap easily into the proud position of the life of any party. To know the names of the first fifteen Vice-Presidents of the United States would be a curious accomplishment of no great use. On the other hand, you are constantly coming across references in books to "the sixth President" or "the eighth President," and so on. And aren't people constantly asking you, or aren't you asking yourself, "Who came after Monroe?" and so on? So, knowing the order of succession of the Presidents of the United States is a really useful accomplishment. Here are the first fifteen: |
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