Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following the publication of the Student Council Report, the Faculty Council passed laws forbidding scholarship holders to be "employed by a tutoring school without written consent." Recent investigations, however, have revealed flagrant infringements of this rule...
...report of the Student Council Athletic Committee seems to me to employ the very methods calculated to frustrate its aims...
Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels. Every year they are patronized by two-thirds of the student body; every year they flout with greater insolence the decency and respectability of this College. Their grip has tightened until they threaten to constrict all the life and all the vitality from the Harvard system, and the moral degeneration for which they are responsible is cumulative. They are making a mockery of a Harvard education; a lie of a Harvard diploma...
...Tutoring schools have grown out of their proper place and are a corrosive influence on Harvard's educational standards." The Student Council was pulling its punches when it made this statement two years ago. The same thing should have been shouted in four-letter monosyllables. Once upon a time, tutoring was understood to be a type of legitimate aid, granted to help a slow but honest student. Now, at Harvard, it is defined as a method of passing courses without working, without thinking, without learning...
...been elevated to the status of large-scale commercial enterprise. Harvard's position is unique in the collegiate scene when it comes to the high-pressure tactics, the money-magnetic propensities, the universally rotten influence of her tutors. Nowhere else do they openly exhibit their wares in the authorized student publications. Nowhere else do they presume to stuff their literature into student mail boxes for months without end, throughout the entire academic session. And nowhere else have they established themselves so securely that they dare embark on campaigns of respectability, making bold appeals directly to parents, whispering twisted words about...