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...found Cramer ensconced in a small third-floor office its walls lined with colored graphs on unemployment figures and economic trends, and book cases full of large volumes, mostly on labor relations. Cramer himself added to the general air of efficiency. He is about five feet seven, has a build like Sidney Green street and a personality which fairly exudes confidence from the first...
...Cramer knows his stuff, there is no doubt about that. He was able to supplement the text when I evidenced ignorance of some particular reference, and he showed a glib familiarity with treaty dates, foreign phrases, and the like...
...through History 32. "It's what a man knows that counts, not just the marks he can get"--a rather starting bit of philosophy to hear from a professional tutor. When I read him a list of six topics which Professor Ropp had given out as probable exam questions, Cramer said, "We don't want to aim for any particular topics. This man Ropp fooled some of the boys on the last exam, so we don't want to take any chances this time...
...Cramer is a talkative man. He told me about the "good old days" when be was established in a whole floor of offices over Hayes-Bickford, as the Parker-Cramer Tutoring School. "We used to have three or four hundred students," he said wistfully. "Sometimes as many as fifty percent of the men in a course were coming...
Things are different now, though There is a limit to the amount of work one man can do, even if, as Cramer says. "I often work fourteen, fifteen hours a day during reading period...