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...years an adviser to parents of prep school children, Porter Sargent '96 undertook yesterday to explain the reason for the large percentage of prep school cram patrons...
...junior singles A. Lincoln outrowed R. Cram in the time of 6:02. Hughes Call won the Narrow Comp race in the time of 4:00; R. Wilcox won the Broad Comp race in the time of 3:69. King won the 150-lb singles...
Definite statements from the three largest undergraduate courses yesterday indicated that frequenters of the cram parlors will be at a disadvantage in the coming final examinations...
Never before has the University expressed official and definitive opposition to commercialized tutoring. Never before has it even faced the evil openly. Its attitude has been one of scolding disapproval, and this inarticulate and inconsistent. Now, in blanket terms which leave no outs, it has condemned the cram parlors of the Square. "Commercial tutoring . . . rests upon a false theory of education and certain practices exert a harmful influence." Harvard has leveled moral sanctions against the use of tutoring schools...
Above all, the University must recognize the importance of what it is attempting. This is a death-struggle. Harvard has staked her reputation and soundness against the existence of the cram parlors. If they emerge from it they will be all the stronger, and perhaps impregnable for the future. The drive to meet their challenge must be vigorous and sustained...