Word: tutored
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Biggest and reputedly best of Harvard's bureaus is run by Harold ("Hal") Wolff. Tutor Wolff, who graduated magna cum lande in anthropology in 1929, launched the practice of advertising in the Harvard Crimson his willingness to be of assistance in preparing for approaching examinations. He rents a floor in a dingy building directly across from the freshman dormitories, hires 21 assistants, tutors about 500 students a year. Rates are $4 an hour for private work, $2.50 for class reviews. Tutor Wolff's proudest boasts are that he has never run afoul of University Hall, that...
...Yale's leading tutors are the brothers Samuel and Harris Rosenbaum, who learned their trade when they were in Sheffield Scientific School and have plied it profitably since their graduations in 1907 and 1908. The Rosenbaum staff divides its time between New Haven and nearby Milford School which the brothers founded as a preparatory academy in 1916. Rival Elm City School is headed by Nathan Francis of the class of 1902, who was a Yale instructor until 1912 when the University asked him to choose between his jobs. Tutor Francis also owns a preparatory school at Cheshire, Conn...
...Distressed Princeton underclassmen rely on John Gale Hun, who also runs the expensive Hun School (tuition: $1,800). Tutor Hun has a sizable staff, a man Friday in wiry John I. Harvey, who was Jack I. Horovitz when he graduated from Princeton in 1925. Princeton's comprehensive upperclass examinations cannot be easily crammed for. Hun's patrons are almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores. Princeton has never taken official notice of Tutor Hun, except to protect dullards from a flood of Hun mail by ruling three years ago that failures in courses should not have their names publicly posted...
...there would be no neatly printed exam papers, appearing so severly fresh and clean after a hectic night at the Widows. There would be no notifications of overdue termbills, no announcements of visiting lecturers, no placards for bulletin boards, and no latest books by your tutor...
Berryman R. Hurt 1G, of Barry, Ill., has been appointed assistant of History, and Richard Abel-Musgrave, of The Hague, Holland, as instructor in Economics and Tutor...