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...present educational system. All concerned with this situation realize that something must be done but no one has been willing to make sufficient concessions to effect any material changes. The College Entrance Examination Board is working on its angle of the situation in trying to make their tests cram-proof, but until it works in cooperation with the preparatory schools and colleges its efforts will be of little avail...
...change is imperative. In the first place, the preparatory school prepares for the College Board examination without any regard for the background they provide for their students. The criterion of a good preparatory school at the present time is nothing more than the number of men they manage to cram into colleges. The result is that the college is forced to give many hopelessly elementary courses to fill up life gaps the secondary school has left...
...watch the proceedings, 10,000 shouting citizens tried to cram themselves into the large oak-paneled council room in Cleveland's City Hall. Those who could get in heard the clerk droning a resolution praising the Hopkins administration, asking its continuance. They saw round-faced Mr. Hopkins sitting back in his chair, eyeing with a great show of indifference the 61 amber bulbs in the Moorish chandelier. They saw 25 councilmen, impatient at the droning, presided over by Mayor John D. Marshall, fingering his gavel, munching peanuts...
...Hall Undergraduates only New Fogg Small Lect. Rm. Geology 7 Sever 11 German 1a, I Fogg Large Lect. Rm. German 2, I Fogg Large Lect. Rm. German 19 Fogg Large Lect. Rm. Government 19 Harvard 5 History 1 Mr. Chamberlain, 2, 25 Conf. group I New Lect. Hall Mr. Cram, 1, 12, Conf. group II Memorial Hall Mr. Dow, 3, 18, Conf. group III Emerson D Mr. Jordan, 4, 13, Conf. group IV New Lect. Hall Mr. McDonald, 5, 14, Conf. group V Memorial Hall Mr. Parkman, 15 Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Perkins, A, Conf. group VI Geol. Lect...
...only) New Fogg Lecture Room (for undergraduates only) Geology 7 Sever 11 German 1a, I Fogg Large Lect. Rm. German 2, I Fogg Large Lect. Rm. German 19 Fogg Large Lect. Rm. Government 19 Harvard 5 History 1 Mr. Chamberlain, 2, 25, Conf. group I New Lect. Hall Mr. Cram, 1, 2, Conf. group II Memorial Hall Mr. Dow, 3, 18, Conf. group III Emerson D Mr. Jordan, 4, 13, Conf. group IV New Lect. Hall Mr. McDonald, 5, 14, Conf. group V Memorial Hall Mr. Parkman, 15 Geol, Lect. Rm. Mr. Perkins, A, Conf. group VI Geol. Lect...