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...Cornell Daily Sun is not to be published during one week of examinations in order as the editors say, to give themselves time to "cram" for the examinations...
...Cram, G. W. 83 Prospect...
...made in changing the requisities for admission has been defective. "Paring down classics in order to allow room for a little more book knowledge of science, has proved mischievous. It deprives students who prefer classics of some of their proper fitting, and obliges those who lean towards science to cram on superficial primers in a way which is very unsatisfactory." What it proposes is to have two lists of admission requisitions, one prescribed, the other elective. "Under the first head let those studies be placed in which every boy should be trained before entering college, as English composition, arithmetic, elementary...
Although Dartmouth is not worthy a place in the base ball league in the opinion of Harvard, we should not be afraid to stake our spare shekels on the following nine against any which our gentlemanly, silk-hosed cousins could muster: Cram, '81 (Capt.) c.; Rundlett, '81. p.: Partridge, '82, 1b.; Parker, '82, 2b.; Nettleton, '84, 3b.; Cushman '83, s. s.; Webster, '82, l.f.; Coombs, '83, c.f.; Hale, '84, r. f. Substitute battery, Gay and Gulick, '83. [Dartmouth...
Despairing freshman - No, we don't think it unreasonable that your examination in physics should consist almost entirely of problems and formulas. The college expects that you are all going to become engineers or scientists. It is moreover a splendid discipline for the mind to cram a mass of formulas, and to neglect the general principles of the subject. And it is really silly to object because so large a proportion of the class get marks under 50 per cent., and that so many men get conditioned in this subject every year. Your course otherwise is so easy and simple...