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William Whiting Nolen, Harvard '84, and nicknamed "The Window," founded Manter Hall School, where for 38 years he tutored students so they could pass Harvard courses. "The Window" died in 1923, but his school still functions. Its promotion literature, left in dormitories and its advertising in The Crimson stress the founders success, and tell present-day students to "ask Dad--Ask Grandad...
Only illness of absence from Cambridge excuses a student's attendance at one of the schools. In such case the University recommends Manter Hall, Briggs, Parker-Cramer--almost any of the six except Wolff...
Rechecking through another Harvard source, TIME finds that Parker-Cramer, as now corporately constituted, has never advertised a pay-as-you-pass system. In the same story, TIME also erred in saying that Manter Hall School had been enjoined by the University from selling lecture notes...
Last winter Dean Alfred Chester Hanford had old Manter Hall School and young University Tutors legally enjoined from selling copies of lecture notes on the ground that lectures were the common-law property of the University. Other bureaus have been dragged into court by publishers for mimeographing and selling digests of copyrighted textbooks. The small, hustling Parker-Cramer bureau sorely tries the University's patience by advertising a Pay As You Pass system that guarantees a grade of D, charges a sliding scale rate thereafter. And there has been a growing undercurrent of tales about students who have...
...Manter Hall offers the facts out of four selected books and further offers "comment" to the student. The price...