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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject termed "Cramming" is a favorite with most editorial writers. Every college student knows so much about cramming. Whether he has indulged in this mild sport of learning "a la lump" or not, he is aware of the advantages and the evils. The chief complaint against cramming is that a large body of material gone over at a rapid pace late at night does not "stick." This is, indeed, most unfortunate. If only cramming had among other things, certain adhesive qualities, the worries of many students would be at an end. Those who are veterans would be exonerated from that...
...good, only when it is the best teaching device available at that particular time. Its function should be to point out when teaching has not taken effect, in order that remedial exercises may be applied. It should not be used as a device for finding out what a student knows, or does not know, with the object of inflicting a penalty to the deficient. Were the examination used in the light of showing the students his weaknesses, that he might correct them, cramming would cease. Since in our own college some instructors hold this very view and have seen...
...fact that 38.3 per cent or nearly two-fifths of the Senior Class are in social clubs, as shown by the Album life-blanks, indicates that the proportion of club members at Harvard has varied little in the last few years. A Student Council committee on clubs estimated in May, 1927, that somewhat more than one third of the upperclassmen were in clubs. The fact that more Seniors than Juniors or Sophomores are included in clubs points to an essential agreement between the two calculations...
...significant feature of the change is the relative permanency of the new secretaryships. Mr. McCord will be able to plan and execute a consistent policy throughout the whole period of transition, and even the student secretary will probably serve long enough to obtain a thorough grasp of the Union's affairs. As the first step in the reorganization essential to cooperation with the House Plan the action of the Graduate Board is both progressive and farsighted...
With such evidence of friendliness among the directors of policy at the two universities the only conclusion can be that there is a bitter obstinacy somewhere in the ranks. Half of the student bodies at Harvard and Princeton has entered college since the rupture. It seems safe to say, therefore, that the number of obstructionists among them cannot be large, and that in the new college generation now beginning all record of the break will be forgotten...