Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-01-08
EARNING EDUCATION.
Yale Students Work Their way
Through College.
Serve a. Walters. Drive Milk Wagons,
Act as Pail Bearers and DO other
Things 10 Pay Their
Expenses.

About 10 freshmen. or ons-ffth OF the
class. in the academic department at
Yale this year expect TO earn ali or part
OF the money required to pay the expense
OF their first year IN college. In the whole
university. Prof. c. l., Kitchel. OF the
SELF help bureau. reports, about 200 men
VIII 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 tho students left for the long
vacation last June about 800 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 a livelihood dur
ing the college year.
one man has reported that he earned
500 by tutoring a young man In Wash
ington for ten weeks. Another has cared
for three young children OF a Yale pro-
lessor during the summer months and
has added considerable To hi. stock OF
money.
Several men have been dri ling milk
wagons In the early morning hours and
harvested hay between times. One stu
dent was head walter Mt a hotel at Ply
mouth. Mass. A Yale graduate who Ii an
Invalid and resides near New Haven. has
been travelling through Nova Scotia and
has had with him n Yale man to act as
nurse and guide
A half dozen Yale men have been act
Ing as pallbearers nj funerals during tho
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 n score or
more OF needy Yale men and all had a
successful time there.
One student has been making out bills
n fare ut 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 10
make out all it's menus
All the summer resorts from Block Is.
land To Kennebunk port have had small
colonies OF Yale men acting as walters.
clerks. cooks and general helpers.
IL is estimated that the students OF the
academic department have earned dur
Ing the year Just closed about $40 900.
Last year 81 sophomores earned $40. O02
and 2s seniors earned ss.OG7. 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.
caring for furnaces. lawns and horses.
doing street car service. clerical work
and reporting. there is new field open
this year In the line OF chauffeurs and
already several Yale men have qualified
themselves I'm 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
eraf expert chaureurs to earn good
money this fall in managing fractions
machines and teaching the novice &c
handle the vehicles