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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to information received during the past week by the CRIMSON, tutoring establishments, without the College walls, are non-existent at Columbia and Williams. At Brown 5% of the undergraduates use the schools; and at Dartmouth it was estimated that 30% have called on a "cram bureau" at one time or another during their stay in Hanover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Eastern Colleges Face No Tutoring School Problem | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Dartmouth, where 50% tutor or use notes, there is a single school, established in 1933, which offers prepared notes and oral reviews. Ten per cent of those who use the school attend reviews. According to the Managing Editor of the Dartmouth, practically all the tutoring is in the Freshman and Sophomore courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Eastern Colleges Face No Tutoring School Problem | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...annual Story Magazine contest. Of these I liked Mr. Wenzel's "Journey to Shreveport" best. It is a more brutal and masculine rendering of the situation in Josephine Johnson's "Nigger Honeymoon," with the shock of full awareness reserved until the end. Although Mr. Wenzel makes good use of the excitement of his material, his story derives its value from his ability to observe, and from a sense of country passed through and the things people say and the disturbing fact that it is also completely American to be like Charlie...

Author: By Robert B. Davis and Instructor IN English, S | Title: On the Shelf | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Passed (in five minutes) Senator Sheppard's bill to outlaw political use of Relief and other Government funds; sent it to the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...action to be constructive. A front-page editorial last month in the conservative Chronicle, calling loudly for a stand against the Dictators, was applauded by 70% of letters-to-the-editor. At the Institute of Pacific Relations' round table talks. President Roosevelt's plan to use all measures short of war was seconded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Contours | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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