To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In reply to the gentleman who wanted to know what was wrong with attending Mr. Cramer's tutoring school, and whether, in fact, Mr. Cramer should not be encouraged, in view of his ultra-rapid success in teaching University courses, and whether the various professors should not make exams such as to prevent this sort of study, I would like to put in a few words in condemnation of Mr. Cramer and his ilk.

Granted that a good deal of "bull-slinging goes on in exams involving essay question, some conclusion must inevitably be reached. The better an interpretation of the reading that conclusion is (leaving lots of room for the variety of interpretations,) the better the mark. Intelligent students (they tell me) do the same thing Mr. Cramer does, more or less, and I don't suppose the college cares half as much as everybody thinks whether the interpretation of reading matter is done by the student or Mr. Cramer.

The moral wrong comes in here, and it applies only as long as only a minority consults Mr. Cramer, because the assumption is that you earned a college degree by work and study and thought, occasioned by personal interest. It is a fraud, I think, to parade a degree under conditions other than those--just as wrong as it is to present an engineering project under your name if it was drawn up by Mr. Cramer. And it is socially wrong in that Mr. Cramer's hobby emphasizes the fact than the acquisition, of a degree (i.e. and education) is auditioned primarily on the resources of the check-book, rather than of the brain. G. H. Matteradorff.