When a lawyer is preparing a case to present to a court, the actual, detail evidence is of no permanent value, andcramming is justified.
But if we wish to acquire and organize facts for their permanent value, cramming is not the proper procedure.
Of course, if we wish to get together a great mass of facts for a temporary purpose and do not care to retain them permanently, cramming is the proper method.
If we are required to pass an examination in which a knowledge of many details is expected and these details have no important permanent value, cramming is justified.
Now then, get in with you," and he thrust him deep into one corner, cramming the cake up to his nose.
Luckily for him, none of the boys were about; and Joel, cramming the dog well under his jacket, plunged up the stairs, and down the hall to his room.
It's pity for myself as well," said Tom lugubriously, and cramming the pillow-end into his mouth.
People who have seen it declare that the spectacle of Mason cramming for an examination was one of the show sights of the University.
On the night that Boggs dropped in on them, Jimmy and Pellams were cramming alone.
The ruin of this particular cramming seminary was accomplished.
But one cannot say what state of life they may be called to without opportunity of testing their capacities, and as for cramming them with nonsense, such a scheme, if properly carried out, ought rather to expel nonsense.
The opponents of popular education raised their still familiar outcry about "cramming children full of nonsense" and "unfitting them for the state of life to which they were called.
It was thought dangerous to teach geography, as in fact anything but cramming the memory, and reading and writing.
Though how a robin can have the face to squeak when he catches it himself at noon, after cramming himself with worms the whole morning, is more than I can see!
Cramming his heels into the flanks of his horse, he sent him down the road at breakneck speed.
Jack, cramming a piece of that wonderful tart into his mouth; for, even if he were wounded, Jack could still show a remarkably undiminished appetite.
In which pursuit, though not yet a fellow, perhaps he was qualifying himself better for a fellowship than he could have done by any amount of cramming for polish in his versification.
But he, too, though he does it on the sly, is cramming with his coach at every available spare moment.
Dickens did not wish to lay all the blame for the stupid process of cramming on the teachers.
Bitherstone was one of the few fortunate fellows who are gifted with natural power to pass through the cramming system without being affected seriously in any way.
Briggs showed the evil effects of cramming in the destruction of individuality.
He exposed the evils of cramming more vigorously than any other writer.
The crammingof youth was continued with great dignity even during meals.
Paul's experience is used to show the terrible physical evils of cramming in any life, especially in the life of a delicate child.
It would be quite possible to find in England or the United States or Canada not only private but public institutions in which similar processes of illogical cramming are still practised.
Dickens attempted to picture the feelings of a boy toward his teachers in the days when cramming was almost universally practised in the story of Lieutenant-Colonel Robin Redforth, aged nine.
He dealt cramming its most stunning blow in Doctor Blimber's school, and he criticised sharply the methods of teaching classics and literature in the same school.
Blimber's school is the most profound criticism of the cramming system of teaching that was ever written.
In the same story he laughs at the practical results of language cramming usually done in the schools: And the way in which Jemmy spoke his French was a real charm.
The bad effects of cramming on the physical constitution of children are pointed out in "the convulsive grasping of their foreheads" by the two boys engaged in solving mathematical problems.
Cramming her handkerchief against her lips, she faltered down the hallway.
She slid into the coat, cramming the sleeves of her negligée in at the shoulders, wrapping the scarf about her head and knotting it at the throat in a hysteria of sudden decision.
Well, now, you see one may love the kirk, and yet not ride on the rigging of it; and one may love the king, and yet not be cramming him eternally down the throat of the unhappy folk that may chance to like another king better.
Some half dozen under-graduates, in peril of the coming examination, form themselves into a joint-stock cramming company; take L.
Now, the fact was, that at that particular moment, John Browdie was sitting on the bed with the reddest face ever seen, cramming the corner of the pillow into his mouth, to prevent his roaring out loud with laughter.
Cramming with detail is not beneficial instruction; book-lore is not always wisdom; pedantry has nothing to do with culture.
They are better at cramming the particular points that the crammer knows to be of use than the clever people are, and they are generally less sensitive.
I have had some opportunity of observing the cramming system in Germany, and have been struck by the unsatisfactory nature of the results of what goes by the name of education amongst girls of the well-to-do classes.
Yorkshire to set your things down, withoutcramming 'em under people's feet like that?
Without it no amount of feverish cramming will ever make you efficient, though it may occasionally perhaps save you from being deservedly ploughed.
And with it no cramming should be necessary--or at most a very little.
He was peeling out of his gauntlets, and cramming them into spacious side pockets.
Batch reached up for his hat and overcoat, cramming the newspaper into a rear pocket.
The fatted calf is rivalled by the fatted schoolboy; the cramming of Strasburg geese itself is not more disgusting than the cramming which makes pâté de foie gras of the moral fibre of the young.
Whilst Petriquillo was applying ointments and frictions, and a doctor of medicinecramming the patient with drugs, Gelos and another surgeon kept tormenting the wound with their probes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cramming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
