The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-01-10
LESS COLLEGE TUTORING.
One Source Of Income For Clever Stu
dents Gut OFF by New Conditions.

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 business vanished ten or
fifteen years ago, when student
working his way through college
could still earn from $1,000 to $500
year, and when some men earned
nearly twice the latter sum.
Even then, however, the business
was not such science as the
Widow" makes of it at Harvard. You
may learn almost anything of the
Widow that is taught in the uniyer-
sity, and there are undergraduates
who fervently believe that he (for
the Widow is not a 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 stu-
dents who can afford to pay the
Widows prices. 1t costs good deal
more to get the Widows lecture notes
and other aids to scholarship than
the fees of the university.
Columbia and the University of the
City of New York have no Widow.
There are hard working students who
still tutor undergraduates for pay,
and there are seasons when such stu
dents neglect their own work in or
der that they may put in twelve or
fifteen hours day with the lads
whom they are tutoring, but good
| many things have combined to spoil
the market in New-York.
The preparatory schools, ii they
are not doing their work better than
they did it twenty years ago, are at
least directing it more strictly to the
end in view, that of putting youths
| into college. Conditions are fewer
than they used to be, and electives
| give a student chance to discover
soft things in the way of studies.
Even the summer tutoring of lads
who have failed in the June entrance
examinations is not the profitable
business it once was. There was a
| time not so long ago when husky
young football players from the pre-
paratory schools gave up two-thirds
of their Summer holidays to studying
against the autumn entrance exami-
nations, and anxious friends of col
lege athletics urged them on to their
| distasteful tasks Parents gladly
paid from SO to SIS an hour to the
men who thus carried dull or idle
boys through their vacation studies.
Tutoring is not specially frowned
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 as
sumo it's worst form here.
In those universities wnere tutor
| ing has been brought to such perfec-
| ton that the idle undergraduate with
! money to spend can be reasonably
sure of passing his examinations
without attending lectures regularly
or reading the books assigned pro-
| fessors funk the fellows who are
known to be regular customers of the
tutoring mills. A lecturer at one
| university, not in New York, con-
| fessed that when he examined the
| typewritten notes of one of his 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.
| New York Sun.