Word: cramming
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Crissman jokingly suggested he might have placed better with a map in his hands. At any rate, before the April marathon he expects to sneak a topographical cram-session into his twice-weekly workouts...
Today the cram schools are no more. They and their often-successful attempts to beat the academic system have been replaced by the Bureau of Study Counsel, which may not advertise as well but which, from a long view, is unquestionably more valuable to any student. It is the Bureau's function to help men make the sometimes-difficult adjustment to life at Harvard and, at the same time, to enable the University's faculty to do a better job of teaching...
Where the cram schools did a man's work for him, the Bureau, through counseling conferences and private tutoring, helps him to stand on his own feet. In place of abridged textbooks and digested lecture notes, the Bureau runs a semi-annual reading course to encourage faster reading and better study organization...
Then in 1939, the CRIMSON launched a campaign seeking abolition of the cram pariors and banned their advertising from its columns. Within a month, the University threatened to expel any student who sold his lecture notes. Professors laid traps in their exams for students who used canned answers provided by tute schools. Finally, in 1940, all outside tutoring was banned...
...grew accustomed to reading blue-book after blue-book with the same questions answered in the same way. Finally faculty members began to take the law into their own hands and one professor emerged from his examination room and announced with satisfaction that his test had "wreaked havoc among cram parlor habituees...