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Pity the poor history major. His troubles began with departures to other coleges, were compounded by vacations, were aggravated by sabatticals, and were culiminated by Guggenheim Fellowships. The exodus leaves the department without Gilmore, Hammond, McKay, Schlesinger, Wolff, Bailyn, Conway, and McGann; Malia in the springtime; Albion and Graubard in the fall. So pity the history major as he tries to find a professor. Sorrow for him as he searches for courses with which to pass generals. Grieve for him as he looks for Greece, early Rome, most of the Middle Ages, half of Renaissance and Reformation, Russia from...
...Life Stress and Essential Hypertension, Drs. Stewart Wolf, Philippe V. Cardon Jr., Edward M. Shepard and Harold G. Wolff, teachers of medicine and practicing physicians, bring together many of the elusive facts about Katherine's main trouble-a trouble shared by 6% of the U.S. population. Katherine suffered from essential hypertension, persistent high blood pressure without known cause...
...founding of several new schools between 1931 and 1936 led to cutthroat competition between the various "intellectual brothels." It also led to a certain degree of specialization. Wolff's and Parker-Cramer, for instance, competed for the leadership in the field of widely advertised mass reviews. Fairfax Hall became important in the prepared notes and "trot" field. Whatever specialized programs the schools offered, they all made efforts to contact section men and instructors to find out the latest information--and possible exam questions--about courses. Sometimes they succeeded...
When the Faculty finally made its decision, Harold A. Wolff announced he had "completed plans to withdraw completely from the field that has come to be called commerical tutoring . . . During the past three years . . . changes have been made that make tutoring in the old sense of the word contrary to the objectives of the College and therfore undesirable...
...Wolff's exit was quickly followed by the other tutoring schools. Only twice since then has any one tried to resurrect some of their services. The first attempt was Lester S. Cramer's efforts to revive the remnants of the Parker-Cramer school from a Boston office in 1948. The second attempt, revealed last week, concerned a thesis-writing service which called itself "Editorial Consultants...