The sun., 1908-02-02
CUPID AS ASSISTANT TUTOR
A GIRL VINO GETS ATHLETES
THROUGH COLLEGE.


GOlng-The work Hart as Tbmcs. hut
PrOFtable-tSlri students Who Have
Taught Their way Through College.
This is the time when the busy tutar
shears his golden fleece. In the last OF
| January the midyear examinations take
place In colleges and the woOlliest lamb Of
the January shearing is the baseball man or
the crew man
The indispensable athleles must be pus
through somcway or other to be ready for
the spring, and the tutor who can do tho
trick gets his own prico. 1t isn't n very
small price either. The other day the
principal Of New York high school offered
an $500 place to a Harvard mathcInatics
tutor.
That's all very WELL responded tae
Harvard man. "but / can't AFFORD to tuko
the place. ImaEe 5000 yehr tutoring"
In oil the colleges tire big profits como
from the athletes. in September whsn they
enter. IN October ss they 90 ont for football.
and IN January when baseball .carls, tracs
teams and crews arc being rot togethe-
At a famous college short time ago dis
tinguished foreigner was introduced to ~ths
two heroes Of the football season. This
is the man who kicked our winning goal.
and this is Mr.. y. who keeps the Ieam
playing
-Keeps tho team playing? DO not oonn-
prehend. Oh. it Is tho coach" exclaimed tho
visitor.
But the students explained that Mr. \
was the tutor who put the players through
their examinations so that they could stay
on the team.
"Just now.' said a college tutor, -I have
two baseball men OF my hands. They're
counting on them for the team and I';n :
"One Of the men is well on, but the other
Tar from It. Yet ms tutoring bill is paid
most prompt y.
1t would be an interesting chapter IL
high finance TO trace out exactly who has
paid some Of the fat charges l have seIfs
in IN the last five years. Your athlete who
can't study Is & luxury that comes high.
We've done some remarkable things in
the way Of getting men in They co me from
all kinds OF fitting schools, where they've
generally been showed along for the sake Of
the team. Then they have 20 make up TO-
lost time on the college entrance papers.
-One track man did a years Latin in two
days. Another did all his history in five
hours, and passed the examination TOO.
Perhaps the record case was doing sicugh
OF three years French in ten days sE get In
on condition.
Some cases. though, are pretty hopeless.
One man failed with me in June. He tried
a different tutor in September and failed
again; came back to me the following June
with not much better luck. He did get ia
on the fourth try. and The tutor who finally
put him through was a girl.
She was a peach. She was here doing
post graduate work for a Ph. D. got 20
sending her my most hopeless cases.
She really was stunning girl, and It took
the duIlest man OF the lot just about one
week TO sit UP and take notice; | only
know one man who hunked after being tu-
tored by her, and that was curious because
he wasn't fool either
"One day asked her how she happened TO
let live man like that funk. She smiled
sweetly and said:
-'You see, he was too live. did my best
to keep him in order but he proposed before
the examination. Really, / wasn't TO blame.
All the others have waited until after the
examinations and then IL didn't matter.
But couldn't accept the man even TO put
him through. ... -.... -.
When questioned about her work she ad-
mitted that she had had some interesting
experiences
Not ali OF the athletes are fools by anv
means. she said. but they spend 80 much
time in training that they haven't any left
for the minor affairs Of college. such as
the courses.
He's the kind that played baseball in vacant
lots till some big high school spotted him
Then he played in the high school until
some college coach wanted him.
handsome. He would be quite romantic.
only his grammar is bad.
One of my prize cases finally learned
enough Latin to get into college. but he said
have went till the day he was graduated.
He was really typical Of one kind
But the live man2' was asked.
"No." said the tutor sternly, ~he was not
typical. The others don't. at least. not
until after the examinations. The typicals
are much safer. You can tell what they
will do
This young woman began her tutoring
career while still at college.
1T was the basketball girls that helped
me through my last two years" she ex-
planned. 1T wasn't easy money at all.
During the two weeks at midyeaT's
and finals | tutored from A. NJ. TO II p. NJ
every day. IL was hard work. and only
rs cents an hour.
Thank you, / much prefer tutoring the
young Indian. l get 50 an hour at that
And it's lots more exciting too she con-
cluded. OF course 1T wasn't her fault"
A student at a girls college reports
This week / have been tutoring three
I'M teaching four subjects. At ( A. NJ.
arise, look over my notes till @, begin
tutoring at and keep right on till IL at
night. l have also six examinations Of my
own for which have not one minute 10
Smith College adds the story OF it's star
ogic tutor who helped 80 many OF her
friends that she hunked her own philos-
Ophy. A French and German tutor at the
same college was working eighteen hours
! day and failed TO pass her physics.
Yet" another Smith tutor added, this is
The most profitable work in college. / am
doing the 4 A. M. to IL p. N. stunt myself,
and II it doesn't kill me / shall finish up
nidyear with enough money to keep me
through Easter. hut, tell you, am going