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Just as malodorous is the practice of planning a course of study for a student so as to include every snap course and every big-time tutoring course in the curriculum. It is almost literally true that men can get through Harvard without cracking a book or attending a lecture. It is ridiculous to credit them with an education when they have finally floated to the end of the mill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEFINITIONS | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

Wolff retaliated by condemning "tutoring schools herding people into obscure snap courses." This statement follows a tip he gave to the CRIMSON last February, when he pointed out that students, prompted by Parker-Cramer, take Chinese 10, History 13, and Geography...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramer and Wolff Counter Charges Issued Together | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, suddenly appeared in Kansas City, Mo. This was but one stop for them, they said, on a whirlwind, 48-hour "inspection trip" to five big Midwest cities. Mr. Murphy explained that his mission was to tell his U. S. District Attorneys to snap into their work, clean up their dockets, above all not to cringe and flinch before any political overlords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: BIGGER THAN HINES | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

When receiving Holy Communion-Keep your eyes downcast or closed. After receiving Holy Communion, close your mouth slowly-do not snap it shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MANNERS IN CHURCH | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

President of the Institute is Nathaniel Saltonstall, first cousin of Massachusetts' new Governor. Director is a young (27), bespectacled Harvardman ('33) who studied Fine Arts in college because he thought it was a snap course, wrote the music for a Hasty Pudding show, still likes playing tennis and skiing as much as working with pictures: James Sachs Plaut (rhymes with flout), who was assistant curator of paintings at the Fine Arts Museum before the Institute hired him last year. More young Bostonians went to his show last week than the Museum had seen for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shoot in Boston | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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