Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Karl Deutsch, former Czechoslovakian student and holder of Harvard's first refugee scholarship, warned the gathering of Harvard and Radcliffe students that America faces the same threat that has overwhelmed his home land...
Intended to cover the entire undergraduate body, a poll on the tutoring schools will begin today with members and candidates of the CRIMSON personally contacting every student in the College...
...desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him" which drives a student to tutoring schools, according to one letter. A father bemoans the fact that a professor refused his Freshman son needed aid, forcing him to a tutoring school. Two Freshmen accuse the University of ignoring the problem which first year men meet in organizing their work and in facing an entirely new system. Others lambaste excessive and dull reading lists...
...Student Council committee distributed 3000 questionnaires in order to determine whether the tutoring schools "have grown out of their natural proportions." 1300 replies were received; and from this number, the Council decided that the schools were a wide-spread and "corrosive influence on Harvard's educational standards...
Today 4000 ballots will be distributed to student rooms in the Houses, dormitories, Dudley, and privately-owned residences. The emphasis will not be, as in 1936, on whether tutoring is bad. Instead the poll, which will be "strictly confidential," will deal with the reasons and extent of tutoring in regard to University curriculum...