Go West, Young Lady

Michigan is fortunate in not being dominated by a tutoring school as is the case in many prominent universities in the country. Students at Princeton and Yale, for example, have access to tutoring agencies that are so efficient that they have the reputation of "spotting" a large majority of the examinations given during the year. These agencies practically guarantee, for a stipulated sum, to make it possible for a student to pass any course in which he may need assistance.

It is gratifying to note that no agency in Ann Arbor has the reputation of having such efficiency. However, if such an agency existed here there can be little doubt but that hundreds of students at this time of the year would sacrifice their week's allowance for a supply of canned knowledge.

It should be the effort of every department in the University to discourage attempts on the part of the students to rely on a system which inevitably results in intellectual laziness. To discourage such practices, certain departments at specified times offer review lectures which tie up the semester's work. Others advise students to seek assistance, at a reasonable length of time before the finals, from a reliable faculty member in the department concerned. This is one of the best means of obtaining reliable and efficient preparation for examinations, and is one which is based on fairness to the student and department.

There are certain courses on the campus which offer every advantage to the student who desires to "cram" and take chances on a final blue book. These courses are the ones that offer practically the same examinations year after year with very little variation in the subject matter. Lecture courses having no examinations other than the final also tend to lead the student to "cram" at the end of a course rather than to consider the subject from the beginning. The Michigan Dally.