Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-22
University Notes.

wholly or partly has increased this
year to between six and seven hun
dred, or nearly one-third of the total
number. AS result of this increase,
the kinds of employment which the
students are taking up have grown in
number and variety until now these
self-supporting students are doing
everything from pressing clothes and
conducting barber shops to keeping
bees and giving music lessons. Even
some of the foreign born students,
such as those from Japan and South
America, in spite of the added diff
Guilty of not being familiar with the
English language, manage to earn
enough money to make possible their
education.
MANY KINDS OF EMPLOYMENT.
The various ways in which students
succeed in getting enough money to
meet their expenses is of considerable
interest. Many secure their board by
waiting on table, or washing dishes in
boarding houses, restaurants or hotels.
Others secure their room rent free
by taking care of furnaces, shoveling
snow, cutting grass, caring for horses,
splitting wood, and beating carpets.
Some succeed in making considerable
money by typewriting, stenography,
book keeping, and clerical work gen.
orally. There are some dozen student
agents for out-of-town laundries, all
of whom are doing prosperous bust
ness in caring for the linen of their
fellow students. Tutoring high school
and university students, and giving
music lessons, serve as means for pay
ing the necessary expenses of other
self-supporting students. The uni
versity authorities make use of student
help whenever it is possible to do So,
and as result many students are en-
ployed by the university as library
and laboratory assistants. janitors,
temporary clerks, stenographers and
typewriters, assistants in gymnasium.
Besides these there are great variety
of employments, including playing in
orchestras, canvassing for books and
advertising, acting as agents and de-
livering daily papers, soliciting clean
ing and pressing work for tailors, act
ing as reporters and correspondents
for newspapers, singing in church
choirs, and hundred and one other
things that none but an ingenious
student, hard pressed for money, could
devise.
GIRLS ALSO SELF-SUPPORTING.
There are also many young women
who are wholly or largely self-sup-
porting. The variety Of occupations
open to them is naturally more limit
ed, but nevertheless they succeed in
securing work of one kind or another.
Some wait on table and act as maids at
Chadbourne hall and sorority houses,
others care for children and assist in
house work in private families; and
many do stenographic and clerical
work. Recently compiled statistics
indicate that about five per cent Of
the total number of young women are
earning their way through the uni
versity.
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU.
The most effective means of secur-
ing work for self-supporting students
is the Employment Bureau, which has
been maintained for a number of
years past by the Young Mems Chris
tian Association. The number of posi-
tons open to students last year was
SOB, an increase of over $50 since the
preceding year. The employment
Bureau directs it's efforts almost en-
tirely to securing employment for
needy freshmen, since, as these are
unfamiliar with the city and the uni
versity, it is most difficult for them
to find work. Nearly $50 freshmen
were last year supplied with some
form of employment through the
medium of this bureau.
FRESHMEN SHOULD HAVE SOME MONEY.
While there are many cases on re-
cord of students who have come to
Madison without enough money to pay
even weeks board, the University
authorities always urge students to
earn enough money during the vaca.
ton to pay their expenses for the first
two or three months of the college
year; that is, until they can become
sufficiently familiar with the city and
the university to find suitable en-
ployment that will be sufficiently re-
munerative to make them self-sup
porting. If students come thus pro
vided with some ready money, they
seldom have any difficulty in earning
all the money necessary for their ex
penses for the whole of their college
course.
sELF-sUPPoRTING STUDENTS PROMINENT
Many of the young men and women
who have had to earn their livins
while attending the university have
taken prominent place in university
affairs and are often among the bright
est students. The list of Joint
debaters, for example, shows that &
considerable proportion are men who
are wholly or partially self-supporting