New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
EARN THEIR OWN WAY.
Many University of Missouri Stu
dents Depend on Themselves.

Statistics Just compiled at the Missouri State
University show that fully 90 per cent of all
fits students are dependent their
sources and that nearly % per cent work daily
for their expenses
Blanks containing this question: Are you de-
pendent on your own resources?" were sent to
the 1852 students of the university OF the
S53 that replied 435 answered in the affirma-
tive, 3OS entirely dependent their
resources, 127 partly so, and $40 are actually
working their way through the university by
doing such jobs the citizens Of the town Of
Columbia able to give them.
One is manager of athletics; two, book agents;
one driver of n bread wagon; one. a barber;
three, bookkeepers; seven, canvassers; twenty
two, clerks; six, paper carriers; four. commits
saries one, a carpenter; one, dishwasher. and
seven, electricians. Fourteen make both ends
meet by rising at o'clock to build the fires IN
furnaces.-~ Four make gardens and clean yards
Two do work the State Farm -Four
sicans Twenty-eight earning money by
doing homework Twelve are janftors: two
librarians; eight, laundry agents; one, leather
worker. and one. boarding house keeper Two
are milking cows at the State Farm, twelve
make mechanical drawings and sixteen en-
gagged in various kinds Of newspaper work: four
DO odd jobs: seven, printing: four. pressing
clothes; three, Photographic work; two. paint
tlg; seven, stenographic work; four. surveying;
twenty-three teaching and one. cabinet work.
One is clerk In a bank Two do odd jobs for
3heir board Seven walters One Is engaged
in managing and cooking for club Two do
literary work for various magazines.
I'm making this investigation I have also
tried" said Frederick Kelsey. university pub
Usher ito find out something about those alumni
who were once self-supporting students Of the
Missouri State University. Among those have
been able to find B. T. Galloway, chief Of the
division of vegetable physiology and pathology
United States Department of Agriculture, WASH
ington; Judge Jay L Torrey, author OF the Tor
rey bankruptcy bin: W. R. Dodson. IN
charge of agricultural education IN Louisiana.
and the late James Cooney. Congressman from
the 9Th Missouri District"
MI Galloway entered the University OF MIS-
Bouri in 1881. Speaking OF his early experiences
a student he says II applied at the hortf-
cultural department Of the university for work.
During the entire school year I carried four reg
Mar studies and managed to get In from twenty
1--WE to thirty hours a week in horticultural and
other work. for which received 10 cents an
hour. During vacations worked every day
and in this way earned enough to pay all my
expenses. After three years spent In this way I
was put In charge Of the greenhouses, for which
1 received a salary of $50 a month";
Mr.. Torrey paid his way by acting as COM
missary Of a boarding club, pruning grape
vines, hoeing IN the garden and shocking corn
the State Farm.
Mr.. Dodson, relating his experience to a
group Of university boys. the other day, said:
'The first semester worked on the State Farm
and the horticultural grounds receiving 10
cents hour for my labor. During this time
prepared my meals The second semester
1 boarded at the old University Boarding Club
of vy0O f he b,i
daily, for which I received 81 IS a week Find
ing that this work interfered with my recita-
tions, I secured employment at the homo OF
Mrs J. K. Rogers. Here 1 did general work
about the house for my board. cut the wood,
carried coal, made fires throughout the house
In the winter. worked in the garden and yard
MIXED the COWS. groo1ned the horse and did
other work when II was necessary. This ar
rangement was continued during the remaining