Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tutoring is a very thriving business at Harvard, and, I suppose, elsewhere. Certainly Harvard cannot have a monopoly of the men who need to be tutored, nor of those who wish to tutor. However, in this, as in other respects, Harvard is not behind her sister colleges...
...Tutors get very good pay. The average amount, I believe, is about a dollar and a half per hour. Some, however, tutor for only a dollar, or a dollar and a quarter. One of the recent notices set the price at forty-five cents, which is getting it down pretty low. Then there have been those who have received two, three, and even four or five, dollars an hour, which is pretty good pay. But to command such prices, we may be sure that the tutors have established reputations for getting their men through. The five dollar tutor must have...
...Tutoring of late has occasionally taken the form of "Seminars," or parlor lectures. The tutor charges a certain fee for admission to his room at an appointed hour, giving, when the time comes, as full a resume of the course as possible. Forty and fifty dollars an evening are often made in this...
...good prices that most of the tutors get, show well how great is the demand for their services. The tutor of maximum ability is, in a way, in the position of a monopolist, and can get his own prices. A man comes to him and cries; "Oh, Mr. Snodkins, tutor me and get me through,-get me through, remember,"-and I will pay you almost any sum. This is the wail of the sinking student. It may be, he is going down for the third time. His tutor reached down his arms and, we will at least hope, rescues...
...easy thing to tutor. Indeed, the most successful tutors must have natural ability in addition to the thorough knowledge of their subjects. Many men who attempt to tutor, while they may have a thorough knowledge of the subject,-perhaps a knowledge more thorough tnan that possessed by certain other brothers in the trade,-nevertheless are unsuccessful in their work, just because they lack the necessary natural qualifications. Men who combine both qualifications, namely, natural ability and thorough knowledge, most perfectly, are the most successful, and get the highest pay. Then there are those who fail, because they undertake...