Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only then will your crusade be won. Short of this there are only palliative. Of course, the Corporation might hire persons to organize a student's work for him free, thus driving the commercial house out of business. But that would simply be a transference and enlargement of the evil. The students might "gang-up" on the cream schools and declare a boycott, but that would only throw the organizing job back upon themselves where it belongs. I for one am firmly convinced that anyone capable of entering Harvard College is capable of carrying the load...
...have been following your "anticram school" crusade with some sympathy and interest but feel that you have them far over-emphasized one aspect of the evil while almost wholly neglecting another. I refer to your long editorial on faculty responsibility. How is it so little has been said of the responsibility of the student? If, then, the following remarks seem critical of your work as performed thus far, I hope they will also serve to direct the attack from a broader base than has apparently been visualized to date...
...tutoring racket in its worst form lies jointly with the vicious mal-practices of the schools themselves, with the indolent students who use them, and with faults in the academic curriculum: worthless teaching or chaotic course organization. Elimination of the last means a body blow to the tutoring evil. Within a few days the Crimson will submit to President Conant a list of courses which have been indicated in its poll as possessed of glaring faults. There should be speedy investigation and remedy of these evils...
...Crimson's scandalized attitude toward the tutoring school business, nevertheless, in the opinion of one who has no personal or practical interest in whether such schools flourish or perish, I sincerely believe that the Crimson's campaign is predicated on the fallacy that the Schools are an evil per se and that if the schools were abolished, the stables would be cleaned...
...believe the correction of the evil lies not in abolishing the "intellectual brothels" of the Square, but in attacking the hopeless substitutes for "teaching" found in the Yard. Cammann Newberry...