Word: cramming
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...coming and causing worry to others besides the victims. Track coach Farrell said gloomily, "The main thing on the track calendar just now is the mid-year examination," and Coach Campbell told baseball aspirants that "An ineligible athlete is a disgrace to Harvard." As sophomores retired to Widener, the cram schools in one last burst offered out-rate printed lecture notes at a dollar, Later the Student Council rejected a suggested honor system for exams...
Exams came uncomfortably close. Freshmen went off to hear Bootch comic Sir Harry Lauder and then scuttled off for a last-minute cram. Meanwhile one dean told the Harvard Dames that "Girls, Clubs, tutorial schools and the 24-hour memory were demoralizing the college...
...haven't cracked a book all year, don't cram for the final. So speaks Dr. Kenneth Christophe, director of the Boston University Health Service, who finds that cramming conditions are just no good for learning...
...friends, they must continue to slap each other in the face every ten seconds until 10 a.m. today. The orgy began at that time on Tuesday morning. Since then, the competitors have subsisted on No-Dos, Absorbine Jr. applied by spectators, and whatever food they could manage to cram down...
...problem of the tutoring schools however, was not limited to Harvard. The American Mercury said that they "spread like cancerous tissue over American colleges." In the "subsidizing South, cram schools are required to maintain mastodonic football teams." Burton claimed that schools operated at Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Chicago University, several of the Big Ten schools, Stanford, U.S.C., and others...