Cramer and Wolff Counter Charges Issued Together

In thinly-veiled press statements, mentioning no names, Harold A. Wolff '29 and Lester Cramer '30, who divide 60% of the Square tutoring, yesterday charged each other with malpractices.

Attacking "publicity-conscious tutors" and "certain malodorous practices," Cramer welcomed the CRIMSON'S stand and said that true "tutoring is a professional work which supplements the instruction given in formal institutions of learning."

Wolff Hits "Harding to Snaps"

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 31.

As a result of Wolff's tip, the CRIMSON treated these three courses as "snaps" in an article February 8. Like Cramer, Wolff maintains that tutoring should supplement and coordinate University courses. Neither tutor feels that his rival conforms to this standard.

The statement from Wolff came as a telegram suggesting that the CRIMSON consider the "herding' practice of some schools. Simultaneously Cramer gave the following defense to the Metropolitan papers anonymously:

"We are glad that the competitive publicity in respect to tutoring will suffer a check with the CRIMSON decision. We feel that tutoring is a professional work which supplements the instruction given in formal institutions of learning, and there is no attempt to supplement the colleges.

"Tutoring has suffered rather from publicity-conscious tutors than from any defects inherent in the nature of the profession. Certain practices associated with the loss reputable tutoring schools are definitely malodorous. These include writing papers. These practices should be stamped out, but there are older heads who have observed many generations of college life and know that there is much good that can be done by tutors who consider their work a profession, with the other of a profession.