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Professor Prepares Outline For Dunster Tutoring School

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Deep in the wilderness fastnesses of Dunster House lies a tutoring school indulging in practices far more nefarious than any ever practiced on Mass. Avenue.

There students in Slavic 1, an introduction to Russian literature given by Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages, could secure from the Black Bourse a complete synopsis of the lectures in the course. A half dozen scholars, none of whom had attended a single lecture, paid $5 apiece for copies of the outline to prepare for the exam on Friday.

This was bad enough, although the outlines themselves are marvels of conciseness, clarity, and accuracy. They should be. Professor Cross made them up himself and distributed them at the first meeting of the course last September--gratis.

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