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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brigadier General Maxwell Murray, commander of the Washington Provisional Brigade, ascended to the dome of the Capitol one day last week and trained a pair of high-powered binoculars down on Pennsylvania Avenue. Lining the street on both sides, all the way to the White House, was a solid wall of U. S. soldiers and marines. Behind the walls massed the Washington populace, patrolled by 751 policemen, 400 firemen. Overhead roared nine flying fortresses, 42 Army pursuit ships. Drawn up from the Capitol to Union Station were more soldiers, and filling the station plaza were cavalry, 30 tanks, a battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wonderful Turnout | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...yesterday's statement, Dean Hanford said he shared Dean Leighton's opinions expressed in the CRIMSON of April 27. The dean continued, "I am in thorough agreement with the general opinion expressed in the editorials that outside tutoring at Har- ing the pre-examination panic and rush to tutoring schools. Reviews are so important in the understanding of any course as a whole that they should be offered by the instructors themselves

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hanford Hits Tutoring Schools As Bad Influence on College in Statement on Return From Trip | 5/10/1939 | See Source »

Tutoring schools are a "great business racket" constituting a threat to sound education, a threat which might be met by instructor's giving general reviews in all courses, Langdon P. Marvin '98, who is now serving his third term as a member of the Board of Overseers, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Tutoring Schools Business Racket, Threaten Education," Claims Marvin | 5/10/1939 | See Source »

...solution of the tutoring problem may life in the offering of a general review by every instructor in a course at the end of each term. These reviews should be highly beneficial in coordinating the work of the period just completed and would go far towards remov- ing the pre-examination panic and rush to tutoring schools. Reviews are so important in the understanding of any course as a whole that they should be offered by the instructors themselves

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Tutoring Schools Business Racket, Threaten Education," Claims Marvin | 5/10/1939 | See Source »

...further formal instruction. They will benefit more from doing research on various problems and then discussing them with consultant experts in seminars. In this way the individual student gains much knowledge. Furthermore, by the publication of the results of its research, the School believes it will add to the general store of knowledge and further justify its existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIAL ENGINEERING | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

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