The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-16
SELF-SUPPORTING STUDENTS
BY IsADORE SHAPIRO

throw it. to administer Knockout" blow from which there can be no recovery. The leading universities are doing much to help needy and deserving students In the inaugural address of Arthur T. Bradley. when inducted into tthe presi- dency of Yale. he said: we need not so mush an increase in beneficiary funds as an increase of the opportunities for students to earn their living. Aid in education, if given without exacting a corresponding return, becomes demoral- izing If 1t is earned by the student as he goes. 1t has just the opposite eff feet"
 Yale conducts and maintains a Bureau of Self Help which ''has for its work the assistance of needy students in Yale University. and the development in every way of their opportunities for self-help" For most of the statistics herein, I am indebted to this bureau.
 At Yale. for many years. about two hundred men have been paying their own way entirely, and about four hun dred more have been earning more or less of their expenses. The enrolment is about thirty-hve hundred.
 A circular was sent out rom the Bureau to all students in the Unver- sity who are earning their way wholly or in part, asking how much money or
 
 what kinds of work The whole amount actually earned, for one year. was about $214,449 The kinds of work engaged in are various, and, in some instances. amusing
 The largest amount earned, ss7,1ss was in teaching, while one hundred and | eighty two men earned $T.620 by private tutoring. One hundred and thirty-flve students earned s1S.483 by acting as wait | toAx r1, ha of ton nf fifteen of their fellows. This Is very common occupation, and I have known l of instances where proficient students waited on men to whom they also acted as tutors. Sixty-one students earned $7,4s5 by managing eating clubs, and about 25 earned their board in the Uni versity dining hall as ''checkers'-they the walters hands. One hundred and ninety-three men earned $22,224 in cleri | cal work, while 130 earned $10,9O can | yassing Eighteen men earned B, ,HS in l editorial and newspaper work. The care of furnaces and sidewalks in winter and gardens and lawns in summer, se' | cured s2 mon $1.711. Typewriting anf stenography furnished 29 men $2,s71, whf | 15 men earned $2.41s by working as coii ductors and motormen on street cal Seventeen students skilled in instrume tai or vocal music earned NSs7.
 a Other work of various sorts repor el as done in the last year is as folio At summer resorts. in religious
 fin factory in civil engineering, in lir ies. in boys clubs in literary work F
 nr,nting, in surveying. in houFe as house agents, at railroadin9
 ushers, monitors, chauneurs, in su ii
 camp. as proctors. In ticket worN r iegoi work. at collecting. as guar ss q inc field, in mason work. at carr entry
 in moving furniture. as guide abo co
 iage buildings, selling violets. orersfinl
 stereotipticon lanterns and slif sss q
 station agents, In painting. at m cut
 ting, as fencing instructor. as ffst in
 spector, making banners, p HAsN'e'
 Programmes. as interpreters. tssser
 rope factory, janitor. In lumbt caR 7
 working lantern sltles. as Pull
 ductor, slight-of-hand enter ln'p nfs
 ..clearer'' on stage collectini f7ioA
 ,cal specimens, getting out e'ot'f q l f.l-..l,rt INaf.tfftf