Yale News Claims Tutoring School Produces Themes

Charging that it was writing themes for hard-pressed students, the Yale Daily News this week declared editorial war on a New Haven tutoring school.

The undergraduate daily also charged that the tutoring firm, run by Joseph S. Alderman Yale '15 and Sidney E. Ross Yale '25, had attempted to spread its service throughout the Ivy League by advertising in college papers at Dartmouth, Princeton, and in the CRIMSON.

All the paper's declined to run the ad, which offered to write themes on any subject up to 5,000 words for a fee of $5 per thousand words.

In a letter to the Daily News, published yesterday, the tutoring school denied that it was writing themes for students at Yale and argued that it had a right to offer tutoring facilities for Yale students in New Haven.

A Daily News writer wrote his tutoring school story after visiting the school's office under the pretence of needing a geology theme written. The theme he received earned him a 42 but the tutoring school claims the writer, Andrew Patten, failed to embellish properly on what was only an outline.

Tutoring schools in Harvard Square were driven out by a CRIMSON campaign which lasted from 1939 to 1948.