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According to information received during the past week by the CRIMSON, tutoring establishments, without the College walls, are non-existent at Columbia and Williams. At Brown 5% of the undergraduates use the schools; and at Dartmouth it was estimated that 30% have called on a "cram bureau" at one time or another during their stay in Hanover...
Amazement at the cram parlor's effrontery is only approached by wonder that the University has not cracked down on this particular crook and his colleagues. Here is simply another example of an implied disapproval of tutoring as it now exists, which Harvard is unwilling to bring into the open. Even now the Records Office makes it hard for the schools to get the lists on which they depend. So the University is opposing in practice what it backs in theory--the freedom of the student to make his choice between good and evil and every other set of alternatives...
...Paul P. Cram, commander-in-chief of History I forces, commented that the only reason for the attack from the year was "to look over the notes. The reason is quite obvious...
...director and a producer-director is that a director's ideas about cinemanufacture are subject to discussion, modification, veto by his producer, but a producer-director is edited by no one but himself. In addition to credit for producing and directing Love Affair, McCarey gets credit, with Mildred Cram, for the original story. As close to a one-man show as any $850,000 picture can be, Love Affair is pleasantly free from the assembly-belt characteristics that mar many . Hollywood products. It also exhibits the need for the merciless editing that few directors are masochistic enough to give...
Next Shot. Where the House left off, the Senate prepared to begin. Chairman Adams of the Senate subcommittee in charge of the bill said that he thought the appropriation might be cut as low as $600,000,000. A dozen Senators were eager to cram the bill with amendments against politics in relief. While they were questioning Harry Hopkins about his fitness to be Secretary of Commerce, they got him to admit that if he had to do it again, he would not have made political speeches as head of WPA; that politics-playing WPA supervisors in Kentucky should have...