Word: cramer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With Cramer in and Conant out. --Omar Bosola...
...takes a good, solid knowledge of the material to juggle it around dexterously. It requires mulling over and assimilating beforehand. The man who has spent a few nightmare hours cramming at Parker-Cramer's knows most of the essential facts. He has even had a stock interpretation of the facts handed down to him. But he cannot twist this interpretation around to answer questions shot from unexpected angles. So he resorts to building a weak bridge from the question to his stock answer, and then proceeds to pour out what he has memorized. In effect he evades the question...
...tutoring schools have been reaping a good income by spotting passages or French students. According to reports, the most active offender is William Sharpe of Parker-Cramer tutors, who has also been spotting sight passages for other tutoring schools for the fast few years...
...really advantageous to the student. Regardless of how useless a review--consisting of oversimplified digests of lecture notes--may be, persuasive advertisements make him imagine that actual benefit can be had. This situation would exist even under a system of perfect examinations. In printing an advertisement of a parker-Cramer review, the Progressive is helping to foster the exaggerated demand for spoon-fed education...
...Percentage of those tutoring who use only prepared notes 54 % Percentage of those tutoring who use only oral reviews 31 % Percentage of those tutoring who use both reviews and notes 15 % % tutored by C.T.B. & U.T. 38% % tutored by Fairfax 25% % tutored by Wolff 16% % tutored by Parker-Cramer 14% % tutored by Manter Hall 5% % tutored by all others...