Word: tutees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...CRIMSON launched a campaign seeking abolition of the cram pariors and banned their advertising from its columns. Within a month, the University threatened to expel any student who sold his lecture notes. Professors laid traps in their exams for students who used canned answers provided by tute schools. Finally, in 1940, all outside tutoring was banned...
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...