Word: cramers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parlors remained, Wolff's and Parker-Cramer. University Hall dealt them the death blow on May 22, 1940. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced that any student using commercial tutoring would be liable to disciplinary action...
After the University issued its edict a CRIMSON photographer learned that it had not driven all of the parlors out of business. He snapped a picture of seven students in an illegal cram session at Parker-Cramer and retreated with a tutor close behind him. When the picture was printed, Cramer filed suit against eleven editors for $55,000, on the grounds of trespass and libel. The case was settled out of court...
...reign of the intellectual brothels ended when Parker-Cramer closed. Lester Cramer '30, a Phi Beta Kappa student, noted in his class record that he had "Abandoned tutoring before it abandoned...
...behind a front called Cramer Research, Inc., located in a Boston office-building, Cramer attempted to repeat his Harvard Square success. He sent a letter to several final clubs at the College, stating that he was ready "to provide tutoring for hour, mid-year, and general examinations in the major liberal arts studies...
...CRIMSON editor, in response to this letter, began to take tutoring under Cramer along with hundreds of other Harvard students. His cancelled check was sufficient proof, and on January 15, 1948, the CRIMSON announced: "After taking an 8-year knockout count, Harvard's biggest bugaboo in recent years, the professional tutoring school, has begun its climb from the canvas...