Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Moreover is he justified in tutoring when the University muffs its end of the bargain. When some courses are poorly organized and others are poorly taught, when there is vastly too much reading for the average ability in still others, then outside tutoring is a necessary evil. Then it is a fruit, not a root. So says the majority opinion...
...more afraid of admitting it. In this frightening darkness men lie down to sleep and dream. Generations of diviners, black magicians, fortune tellers and poets have made night and dreams their province, interpreting the troubled images that float through men's sleeping minds as omens of good & evil. Only of late have psychologists asserted that dreams tell nothing about men's future, much about their hidden or forgotten past. In dreams, this past floats, usually uncensored and distorted, to the surface of their slumbering consciousness...
...ancient question of the legitimacy of university tutoring has recently been reviewed by the Harvard Crimson and, as the system is conducted there, found to be a definite evil. With a request to other Harvard publications to refuse tutoring school advertisements the Cambridge daily formally declared war on the system in general. . . . Not content with discreet announcements, high pressure advertising is brought into use (but the tutoring schools) inferring that he who studies is a sucker and which includes a cocktail party for freshmen. . . . Having as an example the mild form of the system as it exists here...
...Progressive complimented the CRIMSON for its campaign against the tutoring schools, but said in an editorial: "We cannot agree that a suppression of advertising will help eliminate the evil...