Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — WORK FOR EDUCATION [ARTICLE]

WORK FOR EDUCATION

MANY STUDENTS SUPPORT THEMSELVES IN COLLEGE. Statistic* Gathered at PrincSton University Showing the Varied Occu- ? pation* That Were Taken Up by the Young Men. Statistics recently gathered at Princeton, show that 40 per cent, of the students are working their way through college. This means that of the entire enrollment of 1,442 students 577 are helping themselves to gain an education. These figures include all those who are making money in small and large amounts, and do not mean that the men ar* not getting outside assistance of a substantial kind. Students paying half their expenses are Included in 20 per cent, figures, and those paying their way through without any help from others could be put within the ten per cent limit There are scores of ways of making money at Princeton, and the fact that so many students take advantage of them is sufficient evidence that to work a little on the side is considered highly honorable by the student body as a whole, and it explains the further fact, that among those working their way through are some of the most prominent men in college both in athletics and In scholarship. One of the most popular ways ol making enough money to help pay a term .bill or keep the recipient in spending money is work on the college publications. Agencies of various kinds —from laundry work to socks that won’t tear out—give profitable employment. Three principal laundries doing student work have student representatives. These men are usually athletes, as are those who have clothing and athletic goods agencies. Calendars are sold by students at one dollar apiece add cigarettes, tobacco, steins, pennants, sofa pillows, pipes and the like are offered to the students, but to freshmen especially, at the beginning of every college year. Freshmen carry baskets around, well stocked with pretzels and chocolates. Soft hat men come through the dormitories in the fall and straw hat men in the spring.' Shoes are sold by students, and orders for clothing of various kinds are taken. Program privileges on the occasion of athletic events are frequented, and the advertising thereon yields a good return.

Students are agents for typewriters, bicycles, kodaks, golf sticks, caps, canes and the like. The privilege of taking newspaper subscription on the campus is considered a good one. Magazines are represented in Princeton by ’the score. Pressing establishments yield some money.—New York Times. , .