The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-18
YALE STUDENTS ARE KEEN FUR BUSINESS Faculty and Students Take to
 CommerCiaIiSm SOME OF THE ENTERPRISES Activity of the Students Varied and Profitable-Plans for a Print
 Ing shop-Many Ways
 to Make Money.
SOME OF THE ENTERPRISES

New Haven.-The Yale students are re- sorting to many enterprises to supply at least additional money for college ex- penses
 The Yale dining hall, outside of the dor mitorles themselves, was one of the first business enterprises started as a money making concern for the college. It now serves 1000 persons at every meal and has a waiting list of POO.
 The Yale cooperative store sells every thing from a pin to a pony The college runs Its own heating and lighting plant to the exclusion of outside corporations, and the dormitories house 5000 men.
 Recently an order went forth from the college officials prohibiting the selling of light fixtures and student lamps on uni verslty property except at a store recently fitted for the purpose on the campus.
 The province of the popular dog wagon, or all night lunch. has recently been in- vaded by the opening of two lunch rooms for students, one on the academic cam pus and one at the Sheffield Scientific school.
 The enterprises conducted by the unl- versity through it's faculty and corpora ton, such the dining hall dormitories, lighting and heating plants, lunch rooms and cooperative store, are purely busi ness propositions of little interest in themselves save as they represent the en- trance of the modern commercial spirit into educational institutions and because the merchants protest against what they consider the .usurpation of their field of trade
 rloa 1r tI,. elo college commercialsm Is interesting be- cause of the unusual nature of the occu- pations chosen and the way in which these enterprises supplement those chosen by the college authorities, the whole form ing a commercial Yale which supplies the needs of educational Yale.
 Students Run Laundry.
 Students conduct a suit pressing estab- hshment, run laundry, tutor other un- dergraduates and as agents represent mer- cantile houses selling articles of every de- scription.
 daily newspaper and monthly maga- zines, scientific, medical, legal, literary and humorous. all conducted by students are well patronized and pay their packers handsomely.
 When the train rolled into the union sta ton this fall bringing Yale men back to New Haven, the returning students were accosted on the platform by two students who solicited the privilege of carrying the baggage of their Yale acquaintances to the campus. The pair had hired two ex- press wagons at $3 day and secured nine- tenths of the student trade, much to the chagrin of the regular expressmen
 Teams and licenses for the week cost S45, while the two took in more than $l000 When this was divided both had enough to carry them through the college year.
 Another enterprise giving every promise of success is the Yale student laundry started this fall. Two students take or ders for laundry work. selling ticket for a specified amount of work upon which they reap 20 per cent profit when the money is turned over to the laundry con cern for which they secure the orders. Upon other than cash orders they get 15 per cent.
 The University Suit Pressing company, Incorporated, ranks among the most suc- cessful of the business propositions of the undergraduates. The students conduct ing it have a place of business not far from the campus, employ experienced help to clean and press the clothes and boys with handcarts to collect and deliver daily.
 Make Good Profit.
 Since its inauguration this concern has proved far more satisfactory than the business places conducted for students by outside merchants. Work is more sat isfactory and the prices are not so high. The proprietors do little more than drum up trade, attend to the financial end, and each reaps about 5000 yearly by this out side venture.
 Among the minor ways Of making money tutoring is considered by the Yale men to pay best. Many Yale graduates have paid their entire way through col lege by this means.
 Among the agents those selling type writers. fountain pens and other merchant disc receive from 25 to 8 per cent, while those soliciting magazine subscriptions re- ceive from 20 to S5 per cent. Medical stu dents and those in the Sheffield Scientific school must buy instruments tools that are costly. Rival firms pay as much 40 per cent commission to students who sell their classmates these neces- slties.
 Plans are in the air now for still fur therng the commercial side of Yale by establishing a printing department It is pointed out by those who are anxious to see such an enterprise started that an enormous amount of money is ex- pended yearly by the university for print ing catalogues. pamphlets. programmes, official reports, books written by the faculty members athletic programmes, class and year books. to say nothing of the dozen or more publications daily and periodical. Such a university printing es- tabllshment would furnish employment for many students who are trying to earn their way through Yale.