Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here leads me to believe that Harvard generally does not understand the seminar system--it is not just a small lecture where the auditors sit around a table. At Swarthmore, students who are taking a well-conducted seminar do not do it in addition to lectures and the attendant cram examinations. The group, which has been carefully selected on a basis of common interest, meets once a week or even bi-weekly in a four to five hour informal session for which each student has written a paper on one aspect of the day's discussion. At the meeting each...
There is a certain amount of truth in this rebuttal, but the whole truth is that many, if not all students use essentially the tutoring school method of approaching examinations. They cram, they use outlines, they borrow their friends' reading notes, they look up old exams in order to spot questions, and they skim frantically over the reading at the eleventh hour. That they are not so successful as professionals in these methods merely indicates that they haven't the scientific approach of the professionals, not that they find the methods morally reprehensible. It can be argued that when...
...College's reaction in 1940 was based on the faulty premise that it was the duller and more backward students who needed help. For that purpose it set up the Bureau of Study Counsel, while in fact the students who went to tutors, and all others who cram both then and now, are perfectly well supplied with grey matter. The trouble lies in the fact that they have in no way been intellectually stimulated by what Harvard has to offer in the classroom, and, since most of them do not intend to go into scholarly careers, they were...
Presumably with a straight face, they offer, among others, such moral gems as "Don't cram before exams;" "Freshmen, play upon to the sophomore and upperclassmen. . . .ask for advice;" "Don't chew gum insistently" (sic); "Don't bring midget radios to the classroom;" "Don't be bashful about reciting;" "Don't change roommates every week--adjust yourself;" "Leave the bathroom as you ground...
...dealt the knockout punch in the spring of 1940 when the University made liable to disciplinary action any student using their services. The official ban ended a year-long campaign which was started after a Student Council poll showed that more than two-thirds of the student body frequented cram bureaus...