Word: roudybush
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...Examples (curtailed or closed for the duration): Harvard's Wolf School; Yale's Milford; Princeton's Hun; Washington, D.C.'s Roudybush Foreign Service School, which crams many candidates for U.S. posts; the New York State bar examination cram given for 29 years by famed Manhattan attorney Harold R. Medina and taken by many graduates of the best U.S. law schools...
TIME, Sept. 10, was evidently caught napping by that astute gentleman, Mr. Franklin Roudybush. . . . Mr. Angus MacDonald Crawford did not start to prepare candidates for the Foreign Service in 1907. Mr. Roudybush was never associated with him as a teacher, and it is very doubtful that "nearly 75 % of U. S. career diplomats" were students of Crawford, much less of Roudybush, as, up to 1919, the former had prepared only 20 candidates...
...Roudybush, to my personal knowledge, has taken the Foreign Service examinations at least twice and failed both times. It might be news to have a man set himself up to prepare others for an examination in which he has twice failed himself...
...Hunter is an Associate Professor of International Law and History in a local university and was formerly on the staff of the Library of Congress. I was a Secretary in the Diplomatic Service for a number of years and am a member of the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Roudybush's sole distinction, academic or otherwise, is a Bachelor of Foreign Service degree without honors from the Georgetown Foreign Service School and his school is a one man show...
Inasmuch as the State Department has held no Foreign Service examinations since 1932, the year Mr. Roudybush opened his school and the year after Turner & Co. opened theirs, there is small basis for com paring results...