The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-08
SELF-HELPF BUREAU AT YALE.
Great Advantages offered to Toor
Young Men.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. Sept President
/ Hadley of Yale and the members of the
university corporation have taken a step
in the direction of developing the oppor-
! tunities for self-help open TO the under
| graduates. They have opened an agency
similar to a department of labor in the
university with. the hope that by this
means the fullest chance of finding employ
ment for its members may be realized.
| while at the same time business men OF
New Haven and Connecticut who have en-
ployment which Yale men would gladly ac-
cept if they knew of it will have an oppor-
| tunity to place themselves in prompt and
! direct communication with them.
The director of the department of self
help will be DR.. Cornelius L. Kitchel. He
has held professorship in both the Greek
and the English department for about ten
years. During this time he has volun-
tarily interested himself in the struggles
of scores of undergraduates who have
been trying to work their way through
college. When the faculty and corpora
ton last spring began to deliberate the
project of organizing a department in the
university which would take charge in a
systematic way of the chances for self
help at Yale, his name was spontaneously
suggested for the position. His appoint
ment has just been made. He has an Of
flee in Phelps Hall, over the office of the
Yale secretary, the Rev. Arson Phelps
Stokes, ir., and will tomorrow begin the
duties of opening communication between
young men of Yale who need assistance
and the merchants who wish to give them
work. Aside from this task, Prof. Kitchel
VIII investigate the applications for re-
mission OF tuition. for scholarships. fell
lowships. the kinds of employment offered,
and the manner in which the work is done
by the Yale applicant.
The Yale University officers have just
issued pamphlet outlining the scope Of
Prof. Kitcbel's office, and calling attention
to the fact that never in the history Of
Yale have there been nearly as many
chances for earning a part or all of the
college expenses as at present. 1t says
that never has there been greater respect
paid to an earnest student thus employed
by his fellow members of the university
and the faculty than at present. The sta
ustics of the class which was graduated
in June show that of 321 members. fif
teen entirely paid their expenses. fifteen
others nearly ALL and sixty-nine paid
large part of their way. Statistics drawn
from the class books OF the last ten years
show that about one man in five who has
received the b. A. degree has paid a large
share Of his expenses, while about one
graduate out of every twenty has been
entirely self-supporting.
The opportunities for paying expenses
while at Yale are classified as follows by
the faculty: Prizes and scholarships. mon
itorships and choir work. tutoring remis-
sion of tuition, waiting on table. organic
ing eating clubs, acting as subscription
agents, newspaper writing, typewriting
and stenography, teaching in the New
Haven schools. and positions as clerks,
telegraphers, conductors on street cars,
ushers, ticket sellers at theatres and
concert halls, and caring for yards. fur
naces, or residences OF private families in
the city. The force of men employed for
clerical work by the Yale athletic or
CARNATIONS is now recruited almost en-
tirely from the undergraduates. The
members of the Yale faculty say that they
have more positions to fill than they can
find students to supply them. In the theo-
logical school a new system will go into
effect this fall in the distribution of the
money paid to the undergraduates. 1t will
not be distributed in the form of scholar
ships merely upon application with the
stated reason that the applicant is without
financial resources.
The divinity students will make pastoral
visits, lead prayer meetings. call upon the
sick. take charge of city missions. and will
receive part or the whole of their scholar
ship expenses according to the amount of
the work they do. This policy OF distribu-
tion of scholarship funds was made at the
demand of President Hadley. who believed
that the system formerly in vogue tended
to psuperiZe the students.
A Yale leader who is in full sympathy
with the new department of self-aid at
Yale is the Rev. Mr.. Stokes, the millionaire
secretary of the university. He has been a
leader in putting into effect the new sys-
TEN. He said today in speaking of It: Il
heartily endorse it, / know that no college
has broader opportunities for student self
aid than Yale, and the number OF appliea-
tions We still receive from young men who
are eager to work their way through the
university indicates that IL is generally
felt that Yale is still a thoroughly demo-
cratic college, where the student without
means is respected equally with the rNh."