Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editor of the McGill daily is alarmed. He fears lest the great mass of college undergraduates develop into so many intellectual snobs. Collegians, he thinks, become so wrapped up in their educations that they despise all men who have not had the advantages they possess; they so cram themselves with learning that an effort is required for them to make their speech "comprehensible to the uneducated...
...Pierce-Zeller Sever 7 Fine Arts 1f Robinson Hall Fine Arts 5v New Fogg Small Rm. Fine Arts 13a Emerson D French 21 Sever 5 Geography 12 Sever 35 German 1a, sects. 1, 2 Sever 17 German 2, sect. 1 Sever 30 Government 19 Sever 11 History 1 Mr. Cram, 1, 12, Conf. group I New Lect. Hall Mr. Dow, 2,3 Geol. Lect. Rm Mr. Durand, Conf. group II New Lect. Hall Mr. Evans, 4, 14, Conf. group III Memorial Hall Mr. Gideonse, 5, 13, Conf. group IV New Lect. Hall Mr. Jordan, 7, 18, Conf. group VI Memorial...
Elimination of the readmitted Freshmen except in exceptional cases, who is the goal of the latest ruling, will have no such result. On the contrary, it should encourage the schools not only to cram their students with the knowledge necessary to pass the entrance requirements but also to teach them to study so that they can stay in college once they have gained admission...
...constantly in fear that the fad for Gothic, for which credit or crime is at least partially due to Messrs. Cram and Ferguson will spread to some of those universities which still represent in their buildings the unmixed blessings of a single native tradition in architecture, that our own earlier unique and dignified American inheritance will be sacrificed, and that a Gothic anachronism will appear on the campus of the University of Virginia, William and Mary or at Harvard as now threatens. May God forbid such desecration--From a communication in The Daily Princetonian...
Engaged. Ralph Wentworth Cram of Boston, son of famed Architect Ralph Adams Cram; to Miss Florence Heath of Middleboro, Mass...