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First, there was no distinction between "the establishment of E. Gordon Parker '96" and Parker-Cramer. The late Mr. Parker was my associate in the Parker-Cramer School. Second, the "ill-starred suit" against the Crimson was not "lost." The action was terminated by an out-of-court settlement wherein the Crimson admitted it was guilty of trespass, and Parker-Cramer discontinued the libel charge instituted against your paper. The court records do not include the separate agreement in which the Crimson agreed to pay the costs of the action. The basic reason why the case was not pressed...
...school" system began in 1886 after William Whiting "The Widow" Nolen '80 opened the first Manter Hall school and began to relieve students of their curricular worries. Starting slowly, the system mushroomed after the turn of the century, and highly organized cram courses flourished. By 1936 Wolff's, Parker-Cramer, and the establishment of E. Gordon Parker '96 had achieved leadership in their field and were busily stuffing College mailboxes with their literature. "Tute school" advertising stressed respectability and the scientific approach. A high-water mark of a sort was reached by Wolff's in a display ad that pictured...
...vote made undergraduates liable to disciplinary action if they employed "the services of a commercial tutoring school." Although the battle had been largely won, the system did not die easily. Two days after the ban had been enacted, the Crimson was able to obtain a picture of a Parker-Cramer cram session going full blast. Parker-Cramer promptly filed suit for $55,000 and lost...
Isle of the Dead (Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer; TIME, Sept...
Isle of the Dead (Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer; TIME, Sept...