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Carleton S. Coon assistant professor of Anthropology, criticized the College Tutoring Bureau specifically; after reading the "outlines" sold by the Bureau to students, Coon labelled them as "useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Warn All Students Against Tutoring Schools: "Use at Own Risk" | 1/12/1940 | See Source »

Speaking for Anthropology 1a, Professor Coon declared that "these notes seem to have been compiled about 1934. None of the books included in the bibliography attached to the notes were published after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Warn All Students Against Tutoring Schools: "Use at Own Risk" | 1/12/1940 | See Source »

...notes would be not only useless as a preparation for the final examinations in that course but also misinforming. I am fully acquainted with the misspellings and general misinformation which they contain," Coon said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Warn All Students Against Tutoring Schools: "Use at Own Risk" | 1/12/1940 | See Source »

...play gagged up by Kaufman takes hair-trigger handling to put it across. The production at the Copley, however, started off like a funeral procession. About the middle of the first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show began to shake the dust off its feet. By the end of the second act everyone was talking at once. Mr. Gage was roaring up and down stairs, Joan Croydon (Julie) was standing mid-stage screaming her head off, and things looked brighter. Things continued to look bright straight through...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

Clouds over Europe (Columbia) is no international storm warning, but the most enjoyable leg-pulling in a coon's age on such favorite cinema standbys as spies, secret war gadgets and Scotland Yard. Made in England with Hollywood money to satisfy the Buy-British quota laws, Clouds over Europe 1) elbow-digs at British stuffocracy sufficiently to get a nod from most Anglophobes; 2) contains the sort of British acting calculated to warm an Anglophile's heart; and 3) has enough thrill, pace and lovestuff to stay on the top side of any U. S. double bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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