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Definition of Cramming
1. cram [v] - See also: cram
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cramming
Literary usage of Cramming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"(d) That there is too much tendency to cramming and that inducements to cramming
in college are inducements to the neglect of such regular work as is ..."
2. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1881)
"Let us now consider the second species of cramming, viz., the seeking to ...
This kind of cramming is fostered, indeed is rendered unavoidable by our ..."
3. Colonial Civil Service: The Selection and Training of Colonial Officials in by Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Henry Morse Stephens (1900)
"... suggested that the competitive element tends to promote cramming for the
examinations, instead of the thorough grasp of principles ; but this does not ..."
4. Principles and Practice of Poultry Culture by John Henry Robinson (1912)
"In machine cramming liquid food is forced into the crop of the bird. ... A more
uniform product is secured by cramming, though the best crate-fed stock is ..."
5. Principles of Teaching in Secondary Education by Herbert Hamilton Foster (1921)
"cramming.—The question as to the value of cramming has often been raised and
variously answered. Much depends upon the meaning given to the term. ..."
6. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"The season of cramming it cannot so truly be called, because there are other ...
The school-days each " half," are seasons of cramming equally with the ..."
7. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1884)
"I do not believe in cramming a man with Latin and Greek, and with so much law,
and then setting him forth as capable of practising at the Bar, ..."
8. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"(d) That there is too much tendency to cramming and that inducements to cramming
in college are inducements to the neglect of such regular work as is ..."
9. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1881)
"Let us now consider the second species of cramming, viz., the seeking to ...
This kind of cramming is fostered, indeed is rendered unavoidable by our ..."
10. Colonial Civil Service: The Selection and Training of Colonial Officials in by Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Henry Morse Stephens (1900)
"... suggested that the competitive element tends to promote cramming for the
examinations, instead of the thorough grasp of principles ; but this does not ..."
11. Principles and Practice of Poultry Culture by John Henry Robinson (1912)
"In machine cramming liquid food is forced into the crop of the bird. ... A more
uniform product is secured by cramming, though the best crate-fed stock is ..."
12. Principles of Teaching in Secondary Education by Herbert Hamilton Foster (1921)
"cramming.—The question as to the value of cramming has often been raised and
variously answered. Much depends upon the meaning given to the term. ..."
13. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"The season of cramming it cannot so truly be called, because there are other ...
The school-days each " half," are seasons of cramming equally with the ..."
14. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1884)
"I do not believe in cramming a man with Latin and Greek, and with so much law,
and then setting him forth as capable of practising at the Bar, ..."
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