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There is another process which aims at the same result as cramming. It strives to overcome the same ends, but adopts different means. Both seek to prepare men for the examinations: but cramming is at least half honest. "Cribbing," as the other process is styled, is almost utterly dishonest. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramming and Cribbing at Yale. | 6/4/1885 | See Source »

Contrary to the expectations of its opponent, it has not led to the pursual of the customary "soft snaps" by any means. One hundred men out of a class of two hundred and fifty abandoned mathematics, ninety-five Greek, and only sixty-five Latin. Very few abandoned all three. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Elective System. | 5/16/1885 | See Source »

COOPERATIVE SOCIETY BULLETIN. The Society now has in stock an assortment of Hammocks. Punched paper for note-covers has arrived.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 5/1/1885 | See Source »

The routine and discipline are strictly military. Reveille at six o'clock is the signal for all to turn out. Roll call, breakfast, and the call to studies follow quickly. At half-past twelve the recall from studies sounds. Dinner at one o'clock. Then studies again from two until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The United States Naval Academy. | 4/24/1885 | See Source »

It has been President Seelye's idea that the constitution of the senate, like the English Constitution, so called, should grow up with time; and so it happens that at present the constitution covers scarcely a page in the secretary's book. The jurisdiction of the senate is by no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Amherst Senate. | 3/27/1885 | See Source »

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