Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bureau of Supervisors announces that the services that it normally renders to Harvard students are also available to members of the v-12 Unit...
Gaining importance when a ban was placed on commercial tutoring, the Bureau has been supplying tutors at a nominal fee to legitimate clients of the old schools, students who have missed work because of illness, who have had inadequate secondary school, preparation, or who have had any natural difficulty in keeping up with the course...
According to Frederick W. Hooper, Jr., director of the Bureau, the Navy men in v-12,--besides civilian students, will be able to receive instruction of the same calibre as in former years, tutoring being done by experienced teachers in each department of the College. There will be no instruction in Naval Science, however...
...until three years ago, few students availed themselves of the Bureau's services, although, before that time it was only a few students who did not receive tutoring. For an era or 50 years Harvard men had made use of commercial tutoring schools lined up along Massachusetts Avenue, a practice which developed to a point where form two-thirds to three-fourths of the undergraduate body frequented what a campaigning CRIMSON called "Intellectual brothels...
...about it all. In its advertising it stuck to its homework: "In Philadelphia Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin." But proudly, under its Old English masthead, the 96-year-old Bulletin recorded: "February circulation 657,440 copies daily." Hearstmen would give no figure beyond that of the last available Audit Bureau of Circulation. It showed the Journal-American with a quarter-year average (July...