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IRAC & Preachers. Unlike law schools, which minimize memorizing in order to stir thought, cram schools are devoted to organizing the student's knowledge with forced-draft methods. Chicago's ebullient crammer, Thomas J. Harty, spends seven hours a day firing off questions, listening to the class consensus, then firing back the correct answers. The method works so well that one year 92% of his students passed the Illinois bar exam. Denver's Gerald Kopel, a former newsman-turned-lawyer, crams his students by simulating actual exams and blasting bad spellers for such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness...
...left motherless at four and became a precociously scholarly tot. At six, he could read Virgil, knew Latin and the Bible thoroughly. At Eton he copped almost every prize except the Newcastle scholarship; the boy who beat him crammed so hard that all his hair fell out. No crammer, Ronald was a bit of a prankster. He particularly disliked Classmate Hugh Dalton, later Chancellor of the Exchequer. On an exam paper asking "What are the oldest parts of the book of Exodus?" Ronald altered Dalton's paper to read "oddest," and the future politico listed all of the grosser...
Lamont is said to have a policy of reserving a few books over the vacation. Yet workers there were able to give no assurance Friday that certain books would be available. This news was very discouraging for the straight-backed, though desperately late, crammer. If Lamont as yet has no effective way of making sure that at least three copies remain within the library, it must develop one. The Desk One people, clever as they are, ought to be able to find some way of checking the exodus of the world's existing Great Literature...
...Crammer. The first lesson was rough-and valuable. Student Eisenhower was immediately caught up in the dramatic fight between Taftmen and Ikemen for the nomination, the most intense fight in either party since the Democratic Donnybrook of 1924. The political backroom deals of Brazos County, Texas, became as familiar to Ike as the Battle of the Bulge. He was in the center of the storm when the leadership of the Republican Party was torn down-since then a new leadership has been constructed around...
Since perusing back exams gives students that certain measure of confidence that goes with experience, an accessible backlog of tests is a practical idea. But after a few days of manhandling during the reading period, they become hopelessly jumbled. Unless the exam crammer is very lucky or takes some obscure course, he can spend more time finding the test he wants than he needs to look it over. The one he wants is either stolen or on the floor or stuffed into some other year's bound exam volume...