Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major complaint of faculty members at the five Florida campuses was that they could not cram their previous 16-week semester courses into the 14-week trimesters without shortchanging students. "Education is not a 60-yard dash-it should be approached and savored," said one Florida State professor, who contended that under the trimester his students were "confused and stunned by the lightning speed of things." Some students agreed. "It's like trying to drink water from a high-pressure fire hose," said...
...Education Task Force is designing new 1966 programs that will concentrate on starting processes of learning that will continue overseas, instead of trying to cram facts into Volunteers' heads during stateside classroom sessions...
...used to try to cram people with as much information as possible, plus all the language and physical training we could manage, and hope the exposure would prepare them for their service overseas. We learned through experience that this was not enough. The transition between preparation and actual doing was not adequate --sometimes not even relevant...
Harvard was playing without the services of 6-5 center Barry Williams, who remained in Cambridge to take law boards today. Without him, Harvard's defense and rebounding was thoroughly inept. His replacement, Lynn Bennion, was completely unable to contain Cornell's Steve Cram and the 6-7 center poured in 33 points...
...Cram also snared 19 rebounds, and paced Cornell to a 59-36 advantage in that department. Harvard was able to grab only seven offensive rebounds during the contest; Cornell...