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...that the ruling was issued, Harold A. Wolff '29 closed his office, and decided to become an "educational counselor--and adviser to students who have done their work, but who cannot grasp the course material...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Exiled Tutoring Schools Once Fought College For Control of Educating Students, but Lost | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Wolff had become something of a legend, like the Widow Nolen, a quarter of a century before him. A magna graduate in Anthropology, he employed 21 assistants in his high-pressure parlor and tutored up to 500 students...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Exiled Tutoring Schools Once Fought College For Control of Educating Students, but Lost | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Irving Burton, in the American Mercury, called Wolff ". . . a legend in himself. A bulky, six-foot, gangling, stoop-shouldered eccentric, he delights in walking about Cambridge with his pet chimpanzee and asserts that he can tutor anyone possessing the brain of his ape through college...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Exiled Tutoring Schools Once Fought College For Control of Educating Students, but Lost | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

After he left Cambridge, Wolff worked for a short time with the Office of War Information. Now he is writing, and has contributed to Collier's, Coronet, Pageant, and New Republic...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Exiled Tutoring Schools Once Fought College For Control of Educating Students, but Lost | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...class record, Wolff writes: "It is with mixed emotions that I report that Harvard is now free of prostitution--intellectual, I mean. In case you didn't know it, around University Hall they still remember '29 as the class that spawned the notorious keeper of Harvard's `intellectual whorehouse' . . . It took the war to get me out of the `Square', and to bring an end to my shameless battle for better instruction and better guidance facilities in the College. If anyone cares any more, I can report from the perspective of time and distance that Harvard is still far behind...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Exiled Tutoring Schools Once Fought College For Control of Educating Students, but Lost | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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