Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is to notify you that Parker-Cramer Tutors, situated at 2 Holyoke Street, Cambridge, Mass., have consulted me with reference to a libel, which was printed in your magazine under Education headed "Councilors & Tutors" on p. 44 of the Dec. 14 issue...
...Parker-Cramer has never advertised nor practised a "Pay as you Pass" system, or a sliding scale rate...
...behalf of Parker-Cramer, I demand immediate retraction with reference to the libelous statements that were printed in this article about them...
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...
...things of which Mr. Brisbane did not approve: atheists, "half-baked" college boys, gamblers, "brain-trusters." In his editorials Mr. Brisbane long affected to despise professional pugilism, liked to point out that "a gorilla could lick them all." Actually he frequently attended big fights, once had Sport Editor Danny Parker bring colored Fisticuffer Joe Louis around for a chat...