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CONGRATULATIONS ON "BACKGROUND FOR WAR" IN THE MAY I ISSUE OF TIME. IT IS MAGNIFICENTLY CONCEIVED, MAGNIFICENTLY PRESENTED AND MAGNIFICENTLY WRITTEN. IT MAKES ME ASHAMED OF BELONGING TO THE AGGREGATION OF HUMAN BEINGS NOW ALIVE. I WISH IT WERE POSSIBLE TO CRAM IT DOWN THE THROATS OF EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD DRAWING BREATH TODAY, AND MAKE THEM MEMORIZE IT UNTIL THEY COULD REPEAT IT BACKWARD...
From this disinterested vantage point, Mr. Wolff has surveyed the tutoring problem. Lifting from these columns the chief evils of tutoring, he has numbered them! (1) writing papers; (2) spotting examinations; (3) discovering snap courses; (4) conducting mass cram sessions. Yet Mr. Wolff is loath to discuss these ills. In the first place, he thinks they may be unethical; in the second place, they are not practiced by his establishment, "as far as I know," he says...
Chief function of the tutoring schools is to prepare students for Harvard's tough written examinations (which largely determine a student's grade in most courses). Housed around Harvard Square, the tutoring schools coach students in groups or individually, cram a full course into a few tense hours, sell review notes, other crutches, charge up to $4 an hour. Where once William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen had a monopoly of this enterprise, today nine full-fledged tutoring schools flourish in Harvard Square. The Crimson charged that some tutoring schools supplied students with ready-written term papers and theses...
...rather obvious that you have drawn a false picture in the editorial referred to above since, if it were all as you allege, those "stupid faculty" who are unable to organize their work well must be inferior to the "cram-school" instructional staff which is able to put the organization over. If such superiority were real it would seem incredible that the University Corporation should have ignored such talent sitting, as it were, on their very door step, while hiring the alleged incompetents. The argument, therefore, is ridiculous...
...immediate future, the University should institute an investigation of the tutoring schools which now exist in the Square. This investigation should be an inquiry into the methods which are now used by the cram bureaus, a survey of whether or not they comply to the standards of legitimate tutoring. If they do, they should be placed on an approved list and recommended to all students. If not, they should be summarily blacklisted, and any students who frequent them or use their products should be placed upon probation. The Crimson feels confident that, with few exceptions, such an investigation portends...