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...creation of the perspective courses was part of a general revision of first and second-year curriculum to provide what Professor Long Fuller calls a "general education in law. "The idea behind this change was to cram as much basic work as possible into the first two years, leaving the third year for more specialized work...
...undergraduate two-week cram will be of no help to a student in preparing for his law final. There is just too much review work to be done before the four-hour test gets underway. Then the student will get questions phrased in the case form, as in class. He will either13WESLEY A. STURGES took over the Yale Law School after World War ll at about the same time as Dean Griswold was promoted to his present post in Cambridge...
...Army admitted that "civilian alumni" of West Point paid the salaries of instructors in a cram school operated during the late spring on the Academy grounds. Each year, a dozen or so picked high-school football players are invited to go through this school to help them pass West Point entrance examinations. From Congressmen, Army officers wangle appointments for boys selected as good football material. All this is done for the "honor of the Academy," honor in this sense meaning football victories...
...huge, complex telescopes of modern astronomy have a simple purpose: to concentrate light. Their mirrors (up to 200 inches in diameter) and lenses catch a wide bundle of light rays from faint stars or nebulae and cram them together at a small focus on a sensitized plate. Last week two French astronomers, Andre Lallemand and Maurice Duchesnes, were showing off a new wrinkle in astrophotography. Instead of depending on the original starlight to make the photographic impression, they plan to amplify the light's energy before it reaches the plate...
...citizen, who had every possible reason for staying right at home. The son of Manhattan Millionaire Philip Goodhart, and a nephew of Herbert Lehman, he went through Hotchkiss and Yale ('12), passed his New York State Bar exams with ease (he took Harold Medina's "cram course"). But right from the start, Arthur Goodhart was interested in something more than politics or private practice. His real passion: the great common philosophy underlying both U.S. and British...