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...tute" schools provided their clientele with ghost-written papers, specially abridged textbooks, and stolen lecture notes and exam questions. By the 1930s, it was estimated that between two-thirds and three-quarters of the undergraduate body patronized these houses of intellectual ill-fame...
This basic premise of the Bureau is what distinguishes it so markedly from the commercial tutoring schools which were banned from the University by faculty vote in 1940. The "tute" schools were designed only to cram a student through a course, and considered themselves most successful when a student came back for more. The Bureau, however, tries to make the student independent of further help...
...tutoring school has returned to Harvard. This vicious institution, which once made a shame and a joke out of a Harvard degree, has regained, so far, only a limited foothold. But in all except size the reborn "tute schools" resemble the lecherous harpies which once crouched over Harvard Square and drained the College of every claim to honor and integrity...
Crimson Fights Tute Schools...
...first year of operation, the Bureau of Supervisors, under Stanley Salmen '36, helped 406 men with the assistance of 79 supervisors. Since it was organized chiefly to replace the commercial method, the Bureau initially had to take over some of the function of the "tute" schools. In 1939 the Bureau ran reviews for finals for every course with more than 50 freshmen enrolled...