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To the Additional Examiner for 1875

Queen Cram went straying
Where Tait was swaying,
In just hands weighing,
With care immense,
Dry proofs made pleasant
By Routh or Besant
For one who hasn’t
Got too much sense.
Nor marked how, quicker
Than mounts the liquor
In brains made thicker
By College beer,
The murderous maiden,
Mistake, walks laden
With tips forgotten and slips so queer.

How, like a spider,
She still spreads wider,
O’er bookwork, rider,
And problem too,

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poem by James Clerk Maxwell
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A Classical Revival

At the outset I may mention it's my sovereign intention
To revive the classic memories of Athens at its best,
For my company possesses all the necessary dresses,
And a course of quiet cramming will supply us with the rest.
We've a choir hyporchematic (that is, ballet-operatic)
Who respond to the CHOREUTAE of that cultivated age,
And our clever chorus-master, all but captious criticaster,
Would accept as the CHOREGUS of the early Attic stage.
This return to classic ages is considered in their wages,
Which are always calculated by the day or by the week -
And I'll pay 'em (if they'll back me) all in OBOLOI and DRACHMAE,
Which they'll get (if they prefer it) at the Kalends that are
Greek!

(At this juncture I may mention
That this erudition sham
Is but classical pretension,
The result of steady "cram.":
Periphrastic methods spurning,
To my readers all discerning

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poem by William Schwenck Gilbert
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You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.

quote by William Shakespeare
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We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

quote by Donald Cram
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

quote by Ralph A. Cram
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

quote by Ralph A. Cram
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What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

quote by Robert Browning
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To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

quote by Donald Cram
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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

quote by Robert Browning
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

quote by Ralph A. Cram
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