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...Pennsylvania, we feel the plan should be adopted for the Wharton School and College, at least. To the objection that the period would cause procrastination and cramming, we point to its success at Yale and Dartmouth. The objecting faculty members at Columbia were drawing conclusions from observations of a small group of college men who can procrastinate and cram without help of a reading period. The Pennsylvanian...
...Hindmarsh's appointment fills the vacancy in that position which was made by the sudden death of George Cram '88, who died after a short illness last December...
...Cram, who has held the position for many years as Recorder and later Secretary, was also Secretary for Appointments, a job which became merely a clearing house for teaching jobs for which young graduates had applied. In the last three years this position became increasingly important as jobs of a teaching nature were scarce and all positions were over-applied for, Mr. Cram was forced to devote almost his entire time to this end of his work. It is believed that Mr. Hindmarsh will have nothing to do with that side of his predecessor's work, but will assume only...
...course History 1 does not make them think, but remember how few of them can think," was his reaction to a neat little paragraph in the Guide which regretted the lack of original thinking required--or even desired--in the course, "I received a forty-page letter from Paul Cram which said precisely the same thing in the midst of telling me all the things wrong with the course--very sound...
...after giving due credit to Mr. Cram, who is Professor Merriman's assistant in History 1, for his work in helping organize the course, the latest subscriber to the Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses," went striding up Plympton street still chuckling over this great joke on him. Transcript...