Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mackay vs. J. M. Hallowell; S. J. M. Newell vs. P. L. Sternbergh; 9. L. M. Keasbey vs. H. M. Federhen; 10. E. E. Hamlin vs. M. B. Clarke; 11. D. K. Snow vs. G. E. Howes; 12. F. J. Moors vs. T. H. Shepard; 13. G. W. Cram vs. R. H. Zerega. Byes - 14. W. D. Bancroft; 15. A. K. K. Mackay...
...recitation very at different colleges; "fizzle," "flunk," "clump," and "smash" are the most common. The contemptible act of a student who endeavors to ingratiate himself with an instructor by his seeming interest in lessons and officious civilities, now known as "toadying," was formerly called "fishing." The words "cram" and "cut" have almost ceased to be slang, and are now regarded as fixed in the language...
...extinction of disinterested study is a necessary consequence of the encouragement to cram. When the best and most receptive years of a man's life have been passed in having the doctrine ground into him, that the end of all study is to cheat the examiner, and that knowledge is valuable only so far as it can be made to pay in an examination, it is hard to see how he can unlearn the teaching he has received, and alter the character that has been formed in him. The grown man is what he has been taught...
...competition of slaving undergraduates-for students we cannot call them,-who are taught that learning is of no value except in so far as it brings profit to themselves. Many of the mischievours results of the examination-system at these "ancient seats of learning," though now of cram, have already been noticed, and they may be summed up under the general charge of its destruction of intellectual morality and alienation of science and research...
...upper classes the subjects do not permit cramming of the same kind as that practiced with the classics. Hundreds of pages of history, philosophy, and physics must be read, and the men usually work alone, or at most in pairs. It is believed by some that it is poor policy to cram on the day preceding an examination, and after two or three days' work the last 24 hours should be passed without any time being given to the subject of the next day's ordeal. Few have the coolness or self-confidence required to pursue this policy. There...