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WHILE benighted Yale and Harvard are training for a trial of wind and muscle, our more enlightened brethren are arranging for a contest to test the powers of brain and "cram" developed by their several Almoe Matres. Besides the oratorical contest, various other events are announced with the following programme...
...prize essays are well enough, since they stimulate literary activity without involving cramming; but why examinations of the partial character announced should be made the object of intercollegiate contest it is hard to see. They call forth work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary...
...four years of our college course is a very short time to acquire a liberal education, and in spite of continuous study and cram all his course, the student has at the most only laid the foundations for future study and investigation, while in ordinary cases he has only laid a very few stones of the whole foundation of a generous, liberal education, so that a subsequent three-years' study in Europe is needed to in any way finish his education...
...evil genius Cram in blue-booked garments flees...
...cramming for examinations now being done universally calls to mind a suggestion we have often made, that a sufficient opportunity should be given us to review the work of a half-year before we are examined upon it. There can be no doubt that every real student feels the necessity of reviewing his work carefully before an examination, and that the loafer must do so to save himself from a condition. Some sort of a review is made at present by every one, but few have time to do the work on every subject as it should be done...