Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-19
STUDENTS TRY HoUSEWoRK.
Domestic Service Sought BY the Needy
at Yale.

at Yale.
Not in wears has the bureau Of self
help at Yale, which supplies work to
needy students, been so pressed with
demands for assistance as in the last
few months. Some students have been
forced either to abandon their course at
Yale or to postpone it until better times
to make money more plentiful and
work less hard to find.
"On account Of the so-called hard
times" said Prof. Kitchel, secretary OF
the bureau, in discussing the situation,
"the remittances from home in many
cases have been much smaller than
usual and instead Of the men being
able to make up these DEFICIENCIES by
getting extra work outside there has
been a dropping off in applications for
helpers"
For years the bureau has been aid
ing needy students to meet their col
lege expenses by supplying them with
work in the university and the town.
The work has been confined almost eX-
clusively to members Of the academic
department. Recently Prof. Kitchel
made a thorough canvass Of the uni
versity to ascertain how many men in
Yale had been earning money in the
last year to pay for their college edu-
cation. Replies were received from
564 men, probably about nine-tenths
Of those who are working their way
through Yale. They reported that they
had earned 100000 in round figures,
Of which $4,000 was earned in term
time, while they were keeping up their
college work. and the remainder was
earned during vacation time. Accord
ing to Mr. Kitchel the total amount
earned probably reached about $215,-
900.
Students at Yale this year are open
ing up new avenues Of employment.
Numbers Of applications to do house
work between recitations have been
made to the bureau and last year six
teen men earned $1,055 by this means.
Several needy Japanese students,
who are determined to complete their
education here and are short of funds,
have applied for employment in fami-
lies, as they are competent to cook and
do general housework. One Yale pro-
fessor this year is employing a very
bright Japanese as butler, the young
man between recitations finding time
| for his duties.
Canvassing, although one of the
profitable means of securing money, is
on the blacklist of employments among
Yale men. One student on his return
from his summer vacation reported
that he had earned enough money to
carry him through that year working
as a tester in a rope factory. Several
undergraduates donned overalls and
with trowel and mortar helped out eX-
pert masons in laying bricks.
One Yale man worked as a meat
cutter during the summer, while an
other was a fencing instructor at a
summer school. Another Yale man was
a Pullman car conductor during the
summer, while still another was a sta
tion master. Painting contractors
both here and elsewhere employed Yale
men to WELD the paint brush during the
rush last season, and others gathered
in coin during term time and vacations
collecting geological specimens. work
ing in a laundry, selling spring water
and farming. Fourteen men who went
into farming as helpers earned s2,S34.
One Yale undergraduate secured
part of the money for the completion
of his education here by doing seight
of hand stunts, while another was n
cleaner on the stage of the local tie
atre. Carpentry, acting as pallbearer
wheeling an invalids chair. fruit in
spector and interpreter were a few of
the odd jobs picked up by Yale men
during vacation time and between rec
itations.