The ——­ scholarship is awarded to the student in each Senior Class who attends most to cramination on the College course.—­Burlesque Catalogue, Yale Coll., 1852-53, p. 28.

CRAM MAN.  One who is cramming for an examination.

He has read all the black-lettered divinity in the Bodleian, and says that none of the cram men shall have a chance with him.—­Collegian’s Guide, p. 274.

CRAMMER.  One who prepares another for an examination.

The qualifications of a crammer are given in the following extract from the Collegian’s Guide.

“The first point, therefore, in which a crammer differs from other tutors, is in the selection of subjects.  While another tutor would teach every part of the books given up, he virtually reduces their quantity, dwelling chiefly on the ‘likely parts.’

“The second point in which a crammer excels is in fixing the attention, and reducing subjects to the comprehension of ill-formed and undisciplined minds.

“The third qualification of a crammer is a happy manner and address, to encourage the desponding, to animate the idle, and to make the exertions of the pupil continually increase in such a ratio, that he shall be wound up to concert pitch by the day of entering the schools.”—­pp. 231, 232.

CRAMMING.  A cant term, in the British universities, for the act of preparing a student to pass an examination, by going over the topics with him beforehand, and furnishing him with the requisite answers.—­Webster.

The author of the Collegian’s Guide, speaking of examinations, says:  “First, we must observe that all examinations imply the existence of examiners, and examiners, like other mortal beings, lie open to the frauds of designing men, through the uniformity and sameness of their proceedings.  This uniformity inventive men have analyzed and reduced to a system, founding thereon a certain science, and corresponding art, called Cramming.”—­p. 229.

The power of “cramming”—­of filling the mind with knowledge hastily acquired for a particular occasion, and to be forgotten when that occasion is past—­is a power not to be despised, and of much use in the world, especially at the bar.—­Westminster Rev., Am. ed., Vol.  XXXV. p. 237.

I shall never forget the torment I suffered in cramming long lessons in Greek Grammar.—­Dickens’s Household Words, Vol.  I. p. 192.

CRAM PAPER.  A paper in which are inserted such questions as are generally asked at an examination.  The manner in which these questions are obtained is explained in the following extract.  “Every pupil, after his examination, comes to thank him as a matter of course; and as every man, you know, is loquacious enough on such occasions, Tufton gets out of him all the questions he was asked in the schools; and according to these questions, he has moulded his cram papers.”—­Collegian’s Guide, p. 239.