The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-07
LESS COLLEGE TUTORING.
Source of Income for Students Cut Off
 by New Conditions.

From the New York Sun.
 Private tutoring no longer yields the rich harvest of former times to clever students in the universities and colleges of this town The palmy days of the bus mess vanished ten or fifteen years ago, when a student working his way through college could still earn from 1000 to 2,5O0 year, and when some men earned nearly twice the latter sum.
 Even then, however, the business was not such science as the Widow" makes kaf it at Harvard. You may learn almost anything of the Widow that is taught in the university. and there are undergrad uates who fervently believe that he for the Widow is not woman) knows more of most subjects than the real professors
 The Widows neatly typewriter lecture notes. the Widows careful summaries of the matter assigned for collateral reading are regularly served out day after day to those students that can afford to pay the Widows prices. It costs a good deal more to get the Widows lecture notes and oth- CT aids to scholarship than the fees of the university. ..s
 Columbia and the University of the City of New York have no Widow. There are hard-worl1ing students who still tutor un- dergraduates for pay, and there are sea- sons when such students neglect their own work in order that they may put in twelve or fifteen hours day with the lads whom they are tutoring, but a good many things have combined to spoil the market in New York.
 The preparatory schools. If they are not doing their work better than they did it twenty years ago, are at least directing 1t more strictly to the end in view-that of putting youths into college Conditions are fewer than they used to be. and cleo tires give student a chance to discover epft mi in wa If ct1
 Even the summer tutoring of lads who have failed in the June entrance examina- tlons is not the profitable business 1t once was There was time not so long ago when husky young football players from the preparatory schools gave up two- thirds of their summer holidays to study ing against the autumn entrance examina- tions, and anxious friends of college ath- letics urged them on to their distasteful tasks. Parents gladly paid from B to S5 an hour to the men who thus carried dull or idle boys through their vacation stud les.
 Tutoring is not specially drowned upon at the universities and colleges of this city. Some of the professors themselves earned almost as much as tutors in their college days as they now earn as heads of departments, and then the business does not assume its worst form here.
 Tn those universities where tutoring has been brought 10 Sucn perfection that the idle undergraduate with money to spend can be reasonably sure of passing his ex- aminations without attending lectures regularly or reading the books assigned professors funk the fellows who are known to be regular customers of the tu- toring mills lecturer at one university, not in New York, confessed that when he examined the typewriter notes of one of hls own lectures furnished to a student by a tutoring mill he found them fuller than the notes that he was himself using, for the tutor had put in side remarks and illustrations that did not appear in the lecturers notes.