New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-14
WORKING ONES WAYATCOLTHBI1.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO EARN
THEIR LIVING BY TUTORING AND IN
OTHER OCCUPATIONS.

Columbia Is numbered among those universities
which are neither for rich nor for poor men,
but for both Year by year, however the num-
her OF soi-support.ng undergraduates Increases
There arc 50 many things hch a student in
large city can do that needy seekers after coli
legilte or professional. education 70 70 Columbia
In Nov-York. 10 the University OF Pennsylvania
iu Philadelphia. rather than 10 Yale. Brown. AM
herst or any other college whore the students sup
port tho town. For in such places they nave not
tho opportunities to coach students for entrance
examinations. nos arc thcy open 70 the many
means OF earning none available IN large city.
As further indIcemen. To tina, class Com
mlttee on Aid formed az Columbia three years
ago with Professor Kemp "a rs chairman IBIS
committee elthcr lends money directly 10 the
STUDENT taking their notes. payable 30 many
years after gradua Ion. else II hrds. II possible
suitable crnp.oy ment for them. The student hands
In nj. name and gives brief statement OF the
work he s capab!s C: doing. and as soon as tie
committee hears OF an opening the student Is
notified.
Professor Kemp. WHOM asked about the ways
and means employed b. students who work their
way through Columbia said:
Every year about 10 per con. OF the students apply
;or aid. Most OK these applicants are NOS taxing
undergraduates. We have been rather successful
IN hnani S wpS from he door OF coutse We are
unabe TO help the freshmen and sophomores to
any en.en. because they are ignorant OF The higher
Irsnches bur most Of the post-gradUatcs obtain
congenial work. one Of Them spent hs last yacs-
ton In Europe az companion 10 some boys, Again.
at the elections. the various political parties pay
the students good prices to act as %atcheIs ana ana
constitutions and when once confident that they
right they won't be hulld9zed 0t it3n are
Most OF the need students make their living by
tutoring The majority OF these We never near OF
For Instance Yale ~ man. who - now In our
Law school lived all last year with a prominent
New-iork surgeon ptepainS ong and met peopie
who will be OF much benefit 20 nm IN his pro,
fcssion but he was paid for his services sum
much I'm excess OF what the average young lawyer
makes The great number VINO ptcDarc !ouns n'v ,
Tor college in the classics and sciences. apPa'onIy
studonsy @yoid w. a. al al tore. WHO '''"'
Again We supply Mt moments notice students
who arc capable translators. Sevsf9l OF the stu-
dents spend the afternoon or mail days III do"l-
,own onHres translatiug letters 10 be sent or
received from European agents ,. ,.,..
some ~ the students lecture on Scentlhc subjects
,ds ,bcr, IN Illustrate such lectures often. their
,,ences run No in the hundreds and they receive
reasonable md hodavs ex-
mining 70 their charges the G.oIoEy anu "ota1Ii
% tho metropolitan district S9tn, j Ro, as D""H
agents and a few arc accomplished drausnts,,h en-,
aAeaW student last year took down in shorthand the
eniirr lectures OF disdgreeahle course ,which
most Of his classmates cut J Jus, ncad'o ,bnt ~
had the lectures typewriter. ANA that ms prtSSe
was 50 much per set ~ ~ suppoII'" ""' "0
In this manner obtain about So"D worm q q,
.nployment A year But that IS only one oranIh
oT oHr work we find cheap. clean rooms WIN
Ia ~ deserving sick UNDERGRADUATES, by whlch
they are treated gratis at the CoeEe OF hhyscians
and Surgeons. Every year VT 70 ~ Der cent
work but even It Is as easy ior a poor n To
y,dinr he il Wiling to work. as II Is Tor Inc
student who Is wealthy