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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...
...first job when a man leaves college." Professor Piper pointed out, "is a probationary job. There are things no university can do for its graduates, and to adjust him noiselessly to his life work is one of them. We have here, for instance, in the files of the School of Business Administration applications for candidates to fill business positions more than we can supply. Executives who have applied to us for such candidates mean to start the men they hire at small salaries. Not to test their knowledge, because all question concerning that has been satisfied upon a basis...
...value of health to business executives, what he thought of the idea. Said Mr. Vauclain: "In my business I make it a point never to inquire into the personal affairs of the men with whom I come in contact-the way they live is. their affair. My job is to look after myself so I can stick on the job and give them plenty of work to keep them busy." He keeps fit by keeping a physician hired permanently to guard his health. Although a strong individualist, he agreed that all executives should keep themselves physically fit to conduct properly...
...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, it is an excellent thing that teachers' colleges and normal schools are trying to stimulate their enrollments; an excellent thing that some states have introduced (even though only as temporary expedients) normal training courses in their high...
...mates that would last weeks, months, terms. There was no money to send him to college and his father tried to cure the boy's fever for yarning. But even in a Birmingham brassworks he jotted notes and spun tales at lunch hour. It lost him his job, but the fights he fought made red blood for his heroes and villains. Once he had to climb up through a 120-foot chimney on a bet and fight a man when he came down groggy with soot and exertion. Penniless at 21, he married an American girl (Blanche Hawley), came...