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vie with each other in getting contracts
for taking trunks to Palo Alto.
Onesstudent solicits jobs of pressing and
mending for tailor shop.
There are a number doing cnores for
their board and one student cooks and
does homework for family of two.
A couple of students were engaged for
while hauling and laying brick. At the
beginning of each semester there are odd
jobs at the University book store, in the
president and the registrars offices and
occasionally during the year in the
library.
The drawing department spends about
$50 month for student employment. One
man cares for the studios and several
pose for the life and portrait classes.
Here is where a good figure is more than
thing of beauty to the owner. Posing
requires nerve and patience, but 1t pays
well.
Another unusual way Of making money
is scraping and mounting skeletons for
the geological department, and still an
other is providing subjects for dissection
in the physiology and zoology labora-
tories
Students go out and shoot or trap squir-
rels. jackrabbits and birds and catch or
lasso dogs and cats They receive Is
cents apiece for each subject. Conse-
quently there are few animals In the i'm
uleuldle fIClllly VI the CAMPUS, dIlQ pet
dogs have to be tagged and closely
guarded. Not infrequently frat brothers
or sorority sisters are Mortified to see
their especial pet opened out before a
science class to demonstrate the internal
mechanism Of the quadruped, and when
ever pet animal is missing in Palo Alto
the owner knows where to dnd-his re-
mains.
At least six students earn their entire
way by collecting marine forms and 20
illogical specimens for the Eastern col
1eges. They receive $40 for every coIleo-
ton. This method is open only to science
students and upper classmen.
So far little has been said about the
employment of women. They work at
occupations in the list under the heads Of
general homework and clerical work.
There are several girls taking economies
and sociology as their major study, with
the idea of some day having charge OF a
public institution. They are working their
way through and doing house and other
similar work from choice, because Of the
experience gained thereby.
One young lady earns her way by max
ing girls gym suits. Roble Hall fur
nishes employment for one girl as door
keeper.
A favorite employment with the women
is music teaching Of all kinds, and one
young lady teaches a private school in
Palo Alto. This work, after a class is
started is genteel and lucrative. Uni
versity girls have made considerable as
organists for the various churches in the
towns around about the campus, and
others furnish music for private parties.
These, then, are the schemes by which
Stanford students work their way through
college and earn in the aggregate SS30O
per month. For a student to succeed in
this life he must have level head and
good constitution. He must veneer his
constituencies with good common-sense
and be able to endure many hardsh1ps.
There is no romance in working your way
through college, and little pleasure, I'M
less you enjoy hard work and DO not
allow little things to worry you. A stu
dent working his way has TO compete In
his classes with students VINO nave notn-
ing to do but study.
Students taking scientific or engineering
courses have their afternoons taken up
with laboratories, and are still further
handicapped by having studies that re-
quire long, persevering applica ton rather
than especial genius. Besides, these
courses are expensive, recurring laDora-
tory fees and instruments. In every case
1t is the best adapted who have pest sue
cess.
After it is all through with and the stu
dent holds in his hand the coveted
diploma, ask him If he thinks 1t was
upon his temperament, but the chances
are that he will say he is glad, now that
it is over, though he doubts II he would
have the nerve to do it again, and he ad-
vses others to earn at least a part OF
their expenses beforehand.
It won't do for a pessimist youth to at
tempt the feat. He is sure to become
"sauerballed,'' as the saying is, and grad
him for chief tester at an acettc acid fac
tory; but for the boy with plenty Of pluck
and good health and q CHEEKY state of
mind why, come on and try.