Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — WINNING THEIR WAY. [ARTICLE]

WINNING THEIR WAY.

Nearly 1,000 Wnge-Earajnat Student* in Minnesota University.

Of 2,000 men in the University of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, nearly one-half are helping themselves through college by working in spare hours, r £his is the opinion of university authorities who have made a study of the situation and it means that there are more men in the University of Minnesota working their way through college than in any other institution of the kind in the country.

No exact estimate of the amount of rnopey earned by university students ‘luring the college yea* can be made, but that the sum is a large one is shown by the fact that more than SB,OOO has been earned this'year by men who have secured employment through the university Y. M. C. A. They are waiting on tables, working in offices, singing in churches, reading gas meters, clerking in hotels and acting as janitors for buildings in the vicinity of the campus, and they are filled with one idea —that of getting a university education.

Fifty students of the university are acting as assistants in laboratories and departments, and the university pay roll for this year will show that nearly $lO,000 has been paid by the State to students. In the search for work there has been no disposition to let pride interfere with employment. Ten university students are washing dishes in east side restaurants, four are acting as coachmen for downtown families, more than 100 are waiting on tables in boarding houses and restaurants, and these men are among the most popular in the university. The president of one of the academic classes last year worked ns a coachman throughout his rtrm of office. Two academic students are barbers, aud they work in<*hopa near the pampus under an arrangement to leave during class time. Carrying paper routes is a favorite mods of employment for the collegians, and at one time one man had a syndicate of three routes, from which he realized more than S7O a month. Clerking in •tores is also popular with the students and university men are employed in practically all the stores in the nniversity section. Tending furnace daring the winter is the means whereby many students earn the wherewithal to continue their studies.

If a man has a trade when he comes to the university he finds little -trouble in finding employment. Proprietors of printing shops in the vicinity of the campus are always on the lookout for student printers, while the same thing applies to the other trades.