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Strictly speaking, of course, a tutor is a private teacher, and in summer such a tutor aids in making up work or preparing for examinations. It is a fact, however, that practically all of the men who get a job as tutor or tutor companion are much akin to the masculine from of governess. When a boy gets to a place where he is no longer a fit subject for a nursemaid, and when his parents wish to provide him with a virile and inspiring companion, they look for some one whose title is that of tutor, whose work...
There are now 17 professors, two assistant professors, and three instructors, all giving their full time to the school. For these 22 fulltime teachers there are available 16 office rooms, 12 in Langdell Hall and four in Austin Hall, and 18 stack cubicles, 13 in Langdell Hall and five in Austin Hall. Not only do they lack office rooms for all teachers, but the necessity of providing for graduate students has largely crowded the teachers out of the stack cubicles. There ought to be an office convenient to the ilbrary stacks and a stack cubicle for each teacher, in addition...
...That's all very well," thought the rural education division, "but the statistics do not reflect the quality of these teachers that are being turned out, nor the type of position that constitutes nearly a fourth of those 742,172 teaching positions in the U. S." Nearly a fourth of all the positions are in one-teacher schools, and "it would be hazardous to guess" how many one-teacher school jobs are accurately described by the following hypothetical advertisement...
...Wanted: Teacher for rural school; woman preferred; salary $800 a year; high school graduation and professional training not necessary; low-grade certificate accepted; satisfactory board and room not guaranteed; applicant need not be more than 20 years of age and need not have taught more than one year in the same school...
Furthermore, the rural education division showed that, notwithstanding the large number of "recruits" enrolled, the teacher- teaching institutions had actually graduated only 40,484 teachers in 1923-24. Half of these were needed to take care of the normal increase, due to population growth, in elementary school enrollments. That left only some 20,000 trained teachers to fill vacancies caused by teachers leaving the profession. At that rate, the crops of new teachers now coming up are sufficient only if each teacher remains actively on the job for 30 years instead of six. In fine, said the rural education division...