Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the cram schools are no more. They and their often-successful attempts to beat the academic system have been replaced by the Bureau of Study Counsel, which may not advertise as well but which, from a long view, is unquestionably more valuable to any student. It is the Bureau's function to help men make the sometimes-difficult adjustment to life at Harvard and, at the same time, to enable the University's faculty to do a better job of teaching...
Where the cram schools did a man's work for him, the Bureau, through counseling conferences and private tutoring, helps him to stand on his own feet. In place of abridged textbooks and digested lecture notes, the Bureau runs a semi-annual reading course to encourage faster reading and better study organization...
...grew accustomed to reading blue-book after blue-book with the same questions answered in the same way. Finally faculty members began to take the law into their own hands and one professor emerged from his examination room and announced with satisfaction that his test had "wreaked havoc among cram parlor habituees...
Where it couldn't cram its surpluses down foreign gullets, the U.S. seemed determined to force-feed its own. President Eisenhower, taking a tip from Lacto-phile Pierre Mendès-France, announced that the nation's armed forces and schoolchildren were going to get more milk. Benson urged the nation to eat more eggs. With U.S. hens laying 270 million more eggs in January than the record nestful of a year ago, Benson had reason to be alarmed. "Besides being friendly to your budget," cackled an urgent Agriculture Department brochure, "eggs are friendly...
...Cash & Glory. Today, more than 2,000,000 spectators cram into the country's biggest stadiums between the end of September and the middle of December to watch the pros play ball. Last year, for the first time on record, eleven out of twelve teams in the National Football League finished the season in the black. Income: about $60,000 per club from exhibition games, about $125,000 a season per club from TV and radio, a league total of almost $6,000,000 from the turnstiles. Such popularity, says former University of Chicago President Robert M. Hutchins...