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Hours after Dean Leighton had warned students against "commercial tutoring schools," Miss Edith E. Taunton of "Editorial Consultants" bowed out of the College thesis-writing business...
...Miss Taunton claimed, however--in contradiction to her own previous statements--that before this fall she had never helped to write a thesis for a student at any college or university...
Concerning point two, the research work, Miss Taunton remarked that "in the case of students' theses, the writer generally considers it more desirable to do this work himself, as he then arrives at a more complete grasp of his material and hence attains more benefit from the course...
Later, however, when Miss Taunton contracted to write the thesis, she came to Widener to discuss the project, and remarked that students sometimes tell her they "don't want to see the thesis in any stage except the final copy." For these complete jobs, the thesis-writer said, the charge is still only $20 for 20,000 words (about 60 Pages...
Although Miss Taunton talked proudly of the students she has served at the University ("about ten at the College last year, and several at the Graduate School"), she refused to give any of their names as references. "You'll be in the same position and you won't want your name broadcast around so professors can hear it," she told this reporter