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...tute school" system began in 1886 after William Whiting "The Widow" Nolen '80 opened the first Manter Hall school and began to relieve students of their curricular worries. Starting slowly, the system mushroomed after the turn of the century, and highly organized cram courses flourished. By 1936 Wolff's, Parker-Cramer, and the establishment of E. Gordon Parker '96 had achieved leadership in their field and were busily stuffing College mailboxes with their literature. "Tute school" advertising stressed respectability and the scientific approach. A high-water mark of a sort was reached by Wolff's in a display ad that...
...Dean Hanford had said that the tutoring school system "affects unfavorably the standards and morale of the undergraduates." Nonetheless in 1936 a Student Council poll disclosed that from two-thirds to three-fourths of the student body was enrolled in cram courses. But some unwary tutors were already beginning to fill out their own death warrants as they prepared unabashed digests of textbooks with sources clearly marked on the pamphlets. Publishing firms initiated copyright suits against many schools...
Judges of the contest, third this term for the Debate Council, included: Arthur G. Aubie, teaching fellow in Economics: Archibald J. Byrne '40, teaching fellow in English; and Cleveland C. Cram, Jr. '41, teacing fellow in Government. The judges were unanimous in their decision that Bahn was the most able speaker of the evening...
Teaching Fellow in Government: Archie T. Dotson, Teaching Fellows in Government and Tutors: George C. Bryan; Cleveland C. Cram, Jr; John C. Donovan; David T. Holland; Robert E. Lane; Edward W. Proxmire; John C. Wahlke...
...conference guests-including the present Baron Kenyon, 28, and his lady-temporarily doubled the town's population. They found a green and wooded campus with architecture ranging from the massive, crenelated Gothic of Old Kenyon, through degrees of Victorian adornment, to Gothic of the Age of Cram. But Kenyon is careful to keep its 19th Century ivy rustling. It is particularly proud of its young (42) president, who was only 33 when he got the job; of its flying field and its curricular course in practical aeronautics, soon to be resumed after a wartime lapse; of its seven-year...