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...Faculty has not yet stated the means it intends to use in making the vote effective, but the precedents of Harvard's liberal policy toward its students make it probable that the cruder forms of police power will not be used. Yard cops will not be stationed at cram parlor doors to seize the Bursar's cards of men who, from choice or apparent necessity, continue to violate the will of the Faculty. It is very likely that tell-tale glibness and vague answers to specific questions will betray students who have not done their own work. This method...
Samples of notes taken by students in the lectures of Paul P. Cram, instructor in History, were included, aiming to show that some of his statements were outright propaganda...
...Student Union said that the instructors were trying to "whip up a blind war hysteria in the line followed by the professors in 1916-17." Most particularly was the denunciation aimed at Cram...
...notes, the College Tutoring Bureau now faces repetition of its 1933 debacle, when federal marshals raided its "classroom" and carried away two taxi-loads of notes to be burned at the Federal Building. In fact this week has seen a widening as well as a strengthening of the anti-cram-school front, for Princeton has just inaugurated a vigorous campaign to wipe out the racket...
...first of the legal battles with the Harvard Square cram parlors began in 1921 when President Lowell and the MacMillan Company successfully prosecuted a case against William S. Deak for pirating certain sections of President Lowell's book on "The Government of England." Deak retired from business without fight