Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is another process which aims at the same result as cramming. It strives to overcome the same ends, but adopts different means. Both seek to prepare men for the examinations: but cramming is at least half honest. "Cribbing," as the other process is styled, is almost utterly dishonest. It is simyly an attempt to carry into examination material with which the questions of the examiners may be answered without any regard to the student's knowledge of the subject. As all the men examined on a certain day in a certain branch of study are given printed papers bearing...
...John Boyle O'Reilly is president of the Boston Crib Club...
...class of '85 at Princeton signed an agreement not to "crib" during the college course...
...peruse the secret crib...
...crib the ex., to gain a place...