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...often is it glibly stated that tutoring in its corrupt form can never be abolished at Harvard: at best it can be driven underground. When however, this has been accomplished, the Crimson will rest satisfied. Driven underground, the tutoring bureaus are stripped of their sham of respectability. Their work is recognized for what it is; depraved and dishonest. And Harvard need no longer be humiliated by recognizing them as part of her educational process...

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

...moments when human values are treated without sham and military fanfare, "The Duke of West Point" is a really good picture. Louis Hayward, Tom Brown and Richard Carlson are a trio worth watching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...situation amounts to his: Harvard, proudest school in the land, pretending to preeminence in American education, is fast turning rotten inside. Her academic standards, supposedly peers of any to be found, are becoming empty and sham. The attendance of her students at Square tutoring schools is not only intellectual self-defilement; if this were true the whole business could be easily dismissed with some smug generalization about students hurting only themselves. It is not only a force which cramps the exercise of her liberal educational doctrine, freedom of the student, unlimited cuts, non-recording of attendance, and which will force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tutoring School Racket | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

...boycotts circulation of struck papers; 3) its Guild shop makes "the possession of a Guild card the prime requisite to a man's right to work on a newspaper-more important than character . . . and ability"; 4) it thinks it can "guarantee job security ... a fraud and a sham"; 5) "the common desire for more pay is not enough" to hold a vertical newspaper union together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Guild | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...oppose the Goga Government because it is a sham government-anti-democratic and anti-Semitic in its entire policy, while as regards foreign policy it follows Germany's lead!" roared National Peasant Party Leader Julius Maniu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Bloodsucker of the Villages | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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