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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since William Whiting "the Widow" Nolen '84 started his Manter Hall School in 1886, the extent and influence of the tutoring schools have gradually grown. According to the Student Council report, they have "grown out of their proper place" to a degree unique in American universities...
Individual and small-scale tutoring existed until the 1930's in the Widow style', pursued by such men as E. Gordon Parker '96, now of the Parker-Cramer School, and Fletcher Briggs, whose method remained unchanged during the tutoring revolution...
...unanimous vote the CRIMSON board last night decided to exclude all tutoring school advertising "until such time as the tutoring schools are restricted to functions not inconsistent with sound educational practice...
...early as May, 1933, Dean Hanford wrote an affidavit for a copyright case in which he stated that the tutoring school system "affects unfavorably the standards and morale of the undergraduates." No concrete University action, however, was forthcoming...
...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...