The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-03
EARNING EDUCATION.
ale Students Work Their Way
Through College.
Serve as Walters, Drive MIX Wagons,
Act as Pail Bearers and Do other
Things to Pay Their
Expenses.

About 20 freshmen, or one-fifth OF the
class, in the academic department at
Yale this year expect to earn all or part
of the money required to pay the expense
of their first year In college. In the whole
university, Prof. G. L. Kitchel, OF the
self help bureau, reports. about 200 men
will make the experiment Of trying to
support themselves this year for the first
time. In the academic department the
corporation has voted about $50 900 this
year for scholarships for needy students,
and this will be given out principally
through the bureau of self help, re-
ports the New York Sun.
When the students left for the long
vacation last June about 300 applied for
work for the summer, and Prof. Kitchel
is just getting returns Of the work done
by the men. The long vacation is re-
garded the poor students golden oppor-
tunity, for the more he earns the less
he will have to work for livelihood dur
ing the college year.
One man has reported that he earned
$500 by tutoring young man in Wash
ington for ten weeks. Another has cared
for three young children of Yale pro-
fessor during the summer months and
has added considerable to his stock Of
money
Several men have been driving milk
wagons In the early morning hours and
harvested hay between times. One stu
dent was head waiter at hotel at Ply
mouth, Mass. A Yale graduate who is an
invalid and resides near New Haven, has
been travelling through Nova Scotia and
has had with him a Yale man to act as
nurse and guide.
A half dozen Yale men have been act
ing as pallbearers at funerals during the
season and have found the work so profit
able that they will continue after college
opens. The Silver Bay religious confer
ence at Lake George attracted a score or
more of needy Yale men and all had
successful time there.
One student has been making out bills
of fare at a White Mountain resort all
the season and he has been so successful
that the leading Yale 'joint" of the town
has hired him for the coming year to
make out all its menus.
All the summer resorts from Block Is
land to Kennebunkport have had small
colonies Of Yale men acting as walters,
clerks, cooks and general helpers.
1t Is estimated that the students of the
academic department have earned dur
ing the year just closed about $40, 0O0
Last year 81 sophomores earned $40, 002
and % seniors earned $8,067 These fig
ures include only those who made re-
ports to the bureau OF self help and not
all who earned part Of their tuition
Besides the routine work furnished
each year for needy students during term
time, which includes waiting on table, 4
caring for furnaces, lawns and horses,
doing street car service, clerical work
and reporting. there is a new field open
this year in the line of chauffeurs and
already several Yale men have qualified
themselves in this capacity.
An increasing number Of students this
year have come back to college with
automobiles, and Prof. Kitchel expects
that there will be an opportunity for sew
eral expert chauffeurs to earn good
money this fall in managing fractions
machines and teaching the novice to
handle the vehicles.