Word: wolff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overseer of the University attends a Wolff review, he is giving his benediction to the tutoring racket. It is bad enough that Harvard is indifferent to the evils; but it is infinitely worse when an official representative condones them. Mr. Bacon's ignorance is hardly a valid excuse. But perhaps his peccadillo did grow out of the belief that establishments like Wolff's are legitimate tutoring enterprises. There is a common attitude hereabouts that tutoring accords with accepted educational theory and practice. This attitude assumes that, while there are some vicious practices in the Square, most of the work...
Almost equally bad are the mass reviews upon which the businesses of Wolff and Parker-Cramer are based. As a means to real education, these are a farce. They consist, for the most part, in skillful spotting of examinations and cramming of answers. Students emerge merely with high-lights of information--which is necessarily superficial, which they do not understand, which they have not assimilated. The most important part of study, organization of the material, is completely absent. Thus the essence of education-mastery in the methodology of thought--is taken out. Students do not think; their thinking is done...
Instead of announcements of individual reviews, tutoring school advertising in monthly publications has supported tutoring as an institution. In an advertised appeal to parents, in the Hasty Pudding program, Wolff's emphasized the "difficult problems of adjustment in college. . . Guidance may avert more serious maladjustments...
Advocating a bridging of the gap between prep-school and college instruction, Wolff's last March 4, contributed its Massachusetts Avenue quarters for a large and well-stocked cocktail party of Freshmen and their feminine companions, after the University had refused entertainment privileges to this group of Yardlings...
Institutionalized advertising takes its form in such ads as Manter Hall saying, "Ask Dad, Ask Grand-dad About the Widow's." A University Tutoring School ad deplored the oppressiveness of college work as follows; "midnight oil; loathesome toil." Wolff's displays a robed Senior with the caption; "Diploma by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff...