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...fact that "cheating and illegitimate tutoring" is a "large-scale commercial enterprise" only at Harvard, the Crimson held the university partly to blame. Reasons: "the worthless teaching and organization in a great number of courses . . . pedestrian lectures . . . the machine-like routine of Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Intellectual Brothels | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...more than this, the University should immediately undertake an academic house-cleaning. Responsibility for the tutoring racket in its worst form lies jointly with the vicious mal-practices of the schools themselves, with the indolent students who use them, and with faults in the academic curriculum: worthless teaching or chaotic course organization. Elimination of the last means a body blow to the tutoring evil. Within a few days the Crimson will submit to President Conant a list of courses which have been indicated in its poll as possessed of glaring faults. There should be speedy investigation and remedy of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLUTION | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...reaction predominant in the college--as disclosed in letters to the Crimson and as voiced in discussion roundabout--since the publication of Tuesday's editorial. This is the attitude that, while tutoring schools are indeed vicious and overgrown, there is a reason for their existence. This reason is the worthless teaching and organization in a great number of courses, the unreasonable demands for work in others, the refusal to sympathize with academic maladjustment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tutoring School Stand | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

Hollywood often wastes superb treatment on worthless themes, sometimes miserably botches good themes. Boy Slaves and ". . . one-third of a nation" are likely to discourage Hollywood from tackling like matters, for if these pictures are financial failures, producers will blame it on the material rather than their methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Social Insignificance | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...windows) he happens upon the fourth richest girl in America and kindly offers her a place to sleep. Believe it or not, out of this emerges a fashion show, a stolen necklace, a happy marriage, and the Yacht Club Boys. From any technical point of view, the picture is worthless; but for a tired Harvard man, just having staggered through a bitter examination period and not inclined to be critical, the very inanity of the whole should prove a welcome relief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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