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With due respect to the economists who insist that the task, under free competition, will fall to the most efficient and that such a result should be welcomed rather than deplored, we are impelled to say something in regard to the marketing of tutorial talent at this season of the year. Granted that organizations external to the student body now control most of the tutoring field because of superiority over the Employment Office, is the condition a desirable one?

With a given amount of tutoring to be done, it is, desirable that as much as possible, be done by students, and that it be done directly, with no commissions to middleman, inasmuch as it costs the student--who really does the work in any case--nothing. But it lacks the funds to perfect the system of notes, formulas, memory-aids and the whole machine-shop of tutorial pills and capsules; and therefore lacks the prestige of other establishments. Each additional man who turns to it for a tutoring place, will help himself financially, and the Secretary in University 5 to more adequate supplies. Each man who turns to it be tutored will help himself, in that he will receive true tutoring instead of the predigested summaries learned today and forgotten tomorrow of the highly organized agencies. While we do not expect that any bureau of the nature of the present Employment Office can supplant those outside, which make tutoring a business, a little spontaneous co-operation would enlarge its field and make it better serve its purpose.