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Departmental work in upperclass years is almost tutor-proof, and even underclass courses seem to grow less amenable to "cold-doping," which is the greatest and most lucrative sin of the big-money instructors. Legitimate forms of tutoring seem to become more popular, and the tutors, sometimes to their own confessed astonishment, seem to become educators. Undoubtedly there is still too much tutoring of the sort which merely postpones for a few months the time when student and university must part company, but the day has passed when a young man can casually sign up for routine tutoring in course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

TIME erred in implying that Princeton's rule against posting failures was directed against the Hun tutoring school, still maintains that Hun covers far more underclass than upperclass courses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...Distressed Princeton underclassmen rely on John Gale Hun, who also runs the expensive Hun School (tuition: $1,800). Tutor Hun has a sizable staff, a man Friday in wiry John I. Harvey, who was Jack I. Horovitz when he graduated from Princeton in 1925. Princeton's comprehensive upperclass examinations cannot be easily crammed for. Hun's patrons are almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores. Princeton has never taken official notice of Tutor Hun, except to protect dullards from a flood of Hun mail by ruling three years ago that failures in courses should not have their names publicly posted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Councilors & Tutors | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Agitation over the new House parietal regulation regarding entertainment of women guests began to gather in a head yesterday as petitions went up in al seven upperclass dormitories requesting a return to the former ordinance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNERS FLOCK TO PROTEST PARIETAL RULING IN HOUSES | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

...Only upperclass members of Dudley Hall non-residents' Center may compete for Dudley in league contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL HOUSE WINS INTRAMURAL PRIZE IN BIGGEST SEASON | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

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