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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sargent claimed the large number of Prep school tutees was due largely to personal wealth. "A great many have no interest in getting a college education but go through the four years just to please their parents, who regard college in the same light as a finishing school," he says...
...result of this lack of enthusiasm," Sargent stated, "interests turn away from studies, social obligations claiming almost all the preparatory graduate's time. To make up for the lack of application to his studies he is forced to go to tutoring school...
...years an adviser to parents of prep school children, Porter Sargent '96 undertook yesterday to explain the reason for the large percentage of prep school cram patrons...
...same time he proposed a remedy for the whole tutoring school situation, which would come through reformation within the University itself...
...Prep School Men Tutor More...