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Advised Psychologist Carroll Cornelius Pratt of Harvard: "The crammer should be sure that he goes to sleep immediately on putting down his books; an excursion to the restaurant with a newspaper might prove to be a fatal interruption in the cramming process. . . . He should take care that there are no violent changes in his conduct or thoughts...
Harvardmen were unimpressed. New college tutorial plans and reading periods (before examinations) have cut into the crammer's trade. And Harvard's most famed crammery died with William Whiting ("Widow") Nolen in 1923. Graduated from Harvard in 1884 (summa cum laude), "Widow" Nolen left to Harvard his fine collection of Lincolniana, as well as $36,000 to a Miss Beseley of Brattle Street. Harvard's Nolen, like Yale's Samuel B. ("Rosie") Rosenbaum and Princeton's John Hun, represented the highest type of crammer, but of them all it might have been written...
...dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist his heredity and training meant him to be. Besides, his wife is Victoria Sackville-West-who, though one of the Sackvilles of Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more respect for poets than for potentates. Born in Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia...
...Happy Endings," best story in the book, the narrator describes his pre-War crammer's school for the Army, the queer lives of its personnel, what happy endings the late great War brought to them...
...coincidence of the test and the beginning of new courses in which it is important to get a good start offers a further difficulty. Moreover, if the early date is planned to prevent last minute cramming, it must fall, for the crammer believes ten days enough. The simple solution of postponing the examination one or two weeks would give sufficient respite without crowding the March tests known as April hours...