Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing. Almost all other young illustrators are practiced hands at the slim, distracting figure - a subject which nearly monopolized this year's illustrators' exhibition, to the impoverishment of what Pyle or Gruger would have called illustration. Best young draftsmen : Al Parker, John Gannam, Harry Beckhoff of Collier's, Garrett Price, James W. Williamson...
Others elected to the editorial board were Jack E. Brenston, Thomas M. Cock, Mare B. Jaffe, Carier H. Leslie William C. Murphy, and Edward J. Botheohild Peter Macgowan and Ross I. Parker, Jr. were elected to the photographic board...
Almost equally bad are the mass reviews upon which the businesses of Wolff and Parker-Cramer are based. As a means to real education, these are a farce. They consist, for the most part, in skillful spotting of examinations and cramming of answers. Students emerge merely with high-lights of information--which is necessarily superficial, which they do not understand, which they have not assimilated. The most important part of study, organization of the material, is completely absent. Thus the essence of education-mastery in the methodology of thought--is taken out. Students do not think; their thinking is done...
Wolff retaliated by condemning "tutoring schools herding people into obscure snap courses." This statement follows a tip he gave to the CRIMSON last February, when he pointed out that students, prompted by Parker-Cramer, take Chinese 10, History 13, and Geography...
...rapid succession came Wolff's and Parker-Cramer, who now compete for leadership in the field of widely advertised mass reviews. In 1936 Fairfax Hall became important in the prepared notes and "trot" field. The latest school is that established in 1937 by Charles Marshall Underwood...