Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Harold Wolff began to notice a lack of fincase in the tactics of certain competitors and forsaw trouble ahead. Mr. Wolff began to walk, not run, toward the nearest exit, and he has now reached what he considers to be safe ground. Mr. Wolff is not a tutor at all, he says, at least not in the commercial sense. His metier is "guidance and supervision...
...From the tutor's point of view, the disadvantage of the tutoring schools is that, while certain people may now earn large sums by tutoring the large majority of those who would and could tutor are unable to get any work at all. The appointments in the schools are often made on the basis of friendship rather than merit. By having more legitimate private tutoring, and less group reviews, many more students would be given needed employment...
Every person who applies for work at the Student Employment Office indicates on the application form the subjects in which he can tutor. The Office has the machinery for bringing students and tutors together, although this machinery is at present very rarely used. If those undergraduates who needed polishing up in any subject would go to University L, they could quickly be given the names of several students who are ready and anxious to help them learn the material they need...
...order to inspire confidence in the tutor's obtained through the Employment Office, that office should, at the beginning of each year, ask the heads of the different courses to interview or examine the would-be tutors to determine their fitness. Then all assignments of tutors during the year would be made by the Employment Office from the list of capable tutors made up at the beginning...
...Course Freshmen Enrolled % who tutor % who use notes % who use reviews % of Lectures % of Reading History 1 412 65% 57% 20% 86% 76% Math A 293 7% 7% 98% 94% French E 263 34% 20% 19% 88% 75% Gov. I 198 49% 42% 14% 86% 71% German A 174 2% 2% 93% 87% English I 141 18% 11% 10% 96% 84% Biology D 136 12% 6% 7% 96% 77% Eco. A 129 19% 16% 4% 94% 66% Chem. A 82 15% 2% 13% 99% 99% Geology I 80 16% 9% 8% 96% 78% French...