Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drag around and the yearly epidemic begins, there is only one all-encompassing piece of advice on tutoring schools to be handed out: Don't. This year it is not merely academic idealism and intellectual honesty which inspires the Crimson's call for a concerted boycott or blockade or cram parlors; there is no need to invoke sacrifices for a noble cause. A cool-headed, pragmatic consideration of facts should now prove entirely sufficient to convince even the most hardboiled loafer of the inadvisability of acquiring per express a canned Harvard education...
...information handed out by the tutoring schools, however plentiful, however zealously inculcated, strips down to a warped skeleton of data which is only vaguely related to the essence of a college course. When the fatal hour strikes, the cram-stand scholar will find that, in return for his purchasing power, he has a head-bursting mass of detail. When he is asked to demonstrate his understanding and coordination of the material, he will have nothing but facts--and at the most, trite formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae will be enough, but then...
...person needing aid in the technique of taking notes would receive it. This was a further extension of the policy contained in the course syllabus. And today the History I staff has published a report on tutoring-school notes, based on a thorough study of all the various cram parlor condensations. The report deals with the misrepresentations and inadequacies of these sources of information...
Nerves strung fiddle-tight, emotions running skin-deep, the U. S. watched its 76th Congress open a Great Debate last week. A thousand curious citizens pulled wires to wangle passes to cram into the Senate's gallery of 450 seats. Eighty-three Senators out of 96-a portentous proportion-answered the roll call...
...cram parlor and an old-fashioned private tutor have closed up shop because of the University's establishment of the Bureau of Supervision of Students, it was revealed yesterday...