The evening times., 1900-10-01

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. with the
beginning of the two hundredth year OF
Yale's history, on Thursday, new depart
ment was also started upon its career 1t
embodied recognition of the fact that
Yale for years has been the college for
poor students, and, Furthermore, announc-
ed that the university as an institution,
would henceforth try more than ever to as
sist needy scholars TO acquire a collegiate
education.
This new department is nothing more
nor less than an employment bureau, and
is anything but a charity scheme, as has
been generally thought by the country at
large. 1t simply recognizes the fact that
there are students in college who are will
ing to work at almost anything and that
there are. on the other hand, business men
and others who want college men as as
Sistants, but are without means of commu-
nicating their needs to the men seeking
employment.
To bring these two classes together and
thus more especially promote the chances
OF earning living for the college men this
| bureau was founded after a very exhaus-
tive consideration of the subject.
The director of the department of self
| help at Yale, If it may be so called is Dr.
Cornelius L. kitchell. He has held a pro-
fessorship in the Greek department of the
| university for about ten years. He was
also member Of the English department
at one time, but it is as a sophomore in
structor that he is best known. He is in
every way fitted for the place he now oc-
cupies, because for almost his whole career
as a Yale instructor he has OF his own ac-
cord interested himself in the struggles of
scores Of Yale undergraduates trying to
work their way through college When
| last spring the project OF having such an
institution as the self-help bureau was
| broached for the first time, Dr. Kitchen
was one OF the most earnest supporters of
| the scheme His name was unanimously
suggested for the place. and he was at
| once appointed, leaving his work in the
| class room Tor some other man 10 take up.
Headquarters of the Bureau
The quarters of the director Of the bu-
reau, Mr. KitcheI are in Phelps Hall. one
Of the newer buildings on the campus, and
given by the late Minister to England E.
j. Phelps Most of the building is devoted
to class rooms. but there are also few
rooms occupied solely by professors. TIE
one directly beneath Mr. KitchelIs quar-
teTs IS occupied by the secretary OF the
| young millionaire divinity student wno
surprised the college world by his appoint
ment to the secretaryship Of Yale corpor-
alton last year. The building where the
offices are located is very centrally locat-
I'd 1t is also provided With all modern
appliances. and is thus very desirable as
an office for a man 10 be in direct touch
with the undergraduate world as MI.
Kitchen will be-
In addition to his duties in securing po-
| sitions for needy college men, and supply
ing business men and others with college
/ help, the director will also investigate all
/ applications for aid. such as for remission
/ of tuition fees. for scholarships, fellow
I ships. the kinds OF work offered and tbs
! manner in which the WaT'. is to be done
! by the Yale applicants. In other words
/ he viii be the representative and counselor
! OF the poor men al Yale who are attempt
/ ing to earn part OF all of their college ex-
/ penses by outside work
In conjunction with the appointment OF
PROT Kitcbell and the inauguration OF a
t regular organized system Of assisting poor
/ students. the faculty OF the university has
| issued pamphlet outlining the scope of
! Prof. kitchells work and calling attention
| to the fact that never in the history OF
/ Yale has there been SO many chances for
! student to work his way through col,
lege as at present
! It states that never has such a student
! been so respected and honored by his fell
! lOW-cl2SSm2tes and the college at large as
/ at present Apropos of this it is an ex-
| celIent example OF this democratic spirit
to point to the election last spring to
: scme OF the senior societies (whose mem
hership means so much TO q socially aspir-
! ing Yale mani of several members of the
present senior class who are poor students
Honers for Poor Students.
Cne of these men earns his college ex-
! penses by selling books during the sum
! mer months. and yet he is at the head of
/ one of Yale's most prominent athIet :
organizations and a member OF the pow
erful senior society skull and Bonesl
/ This is but one example OF many Of the
! ways that poor boys have been honore5 of
! late years.
One more example is a man who is in
| the present junior class who worked sew
eral years after graduating from his pre-
| paratory school to secure funds to pay
his expenses here Since entering Yale
he has won more prizes of literary and
scholastic nature than any Yale man of
recent years. He was a member of the
/ Yale-Harvard and the Princeton de-
! batting teams, fence orator for his class
| and a member of the most desirable soph-
| omore and junior societies.
The statistics of the class which was
!
| members - entirely paid their own ex-
penses while in college, Is others nearly
! all, while some 70-odd men, in more or
less degree, contributed toward their ex-
! penses. Statistics compiled from the class
books of the past ten years show that
! about one man in every five in these
classes has been partly self-supporting
and that one man in every twenty in the
same classes has been entirely dependent
! his anHeaynrC uhiIa =:
3. A degree.
The opportunities for paying expenses
while at Yale has been classified as fol-
lows: Prizes for exeelling in certain sub
jects, scholarships which are awarded to
men who maintain a stand of over $50 out
of possible 400.
Memberships are for chapel and class
rooms, when the attendance must be care
fully kept. Members of the chapel choir
are also paid in their senior year. Tutor
ing under-classmen or men who are trying
to enter college is another very good