Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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George W. Cram '88, Recorder of the College Office has left for Cleveland, Ohio, where he is to attend a Recorders' Convention as representative of the University. Mr. Cram is not expected to return to the University until next Monday, April...
...properly carried out, should increase the interest in scholarship at Harvard. The general examination is a much more adequate gauge of a man's knowledge of his subject than a series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college is to teach...
...Cram '88, Recorder and Sectary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has returned to Cambridge and yesterday resumed his duties which had been temporarily assumed by Acting Dean C. N. Greenough '98, during the Recorders absence. Mr. Cram's health necessitated a vacation and he has been South about three weeks...
...Cram '88, Recorder and Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is now in the South on a month's vacation, necessitated by ill health. Professor C. N. Greenough '98 has taken over his duties and will remain acting Recorder until Mr. Cram's return...
...present number, Lampy offers its own compendium of Cantabrigian notables; a sort of Almanach de Gotha (or de Goats); a miniature Burke's Steerage of Cambridge. The Ruling Classes of the University are there, from the President himself down to the office attendants, and from George Washington Cram to George Washington Terry. No mercy is shown; the Horrible Truth has been divulged. Whispers have run about already that a certain professor was a bit dull, that another loved the truth better than the American revolutionists, and that a certain young lady connected with U9 excelled in personal pulchritude. The facts...