The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-25
Kansas Girls Help Themselves
Through University.
More of This Done at Lawrence
Than Elsewhere.
BUREAU PROVES AID.
Social Lines Not Drawn and
Many Honors Won.
Working Students Claimed to
Be the Most Loyal.

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Lawrence. Kan, July 25--Statistics
! recently gathered by the management
of the University OF Kansas here show
! that more girls work their way
through this institution and pay for
their board and lodging while obtain
ing an education than in any other like
educational institution in the Unit ed
States Many men now prominent in
the political, business and professional
world worked for their board and lodg-
ing in Lawrence while attending the
university, and it is now stated by the
registrar of tie university that $50 girls
from the homes of farmers and towns
people throughout the state have asked
The university employment bureau t.,
obtain them places in the homes of
Lawrence people. where they can pay
fer their Loard and aing by tutoring
or doing household work mornings and
evenings.
the university with some special train
ing or experience on which they rely
to earn a portion of their expenses. An
Increasingly large number do tutoring
under department. These girls, if they
are efficient, have, of course, greatly
II e advantage in securing work that is
pleasant and that fits in with school
work. A number earn the full cost of
beard and lodging in this work.
Others help in the home of the town,
acting as amanuenses, reading aloud,
caring for small children or helping
with the homework. Housewives of
Lawrence declare that the girls VINO
come to this town to obtain an educa-
ton know how to work and are pre-
ferable to the regular domeStics. This
wo'k varies greatly both in demands
on the girls time and strength, and in
remuneration.
The girl doing such work lives in the
hcme aid receives her board and lodg-
ing for h er services. In many cases
these girls are the daughters of we'll
to-. 10 farmers, but they have learned to
ork on the farm, and they do not
hesitate to work here. And generally,
they are first in their classes
The university employment bureau is
a valuable aid to the girls who desire
to at least partially work their way"
for it tries to regulate the demands
Upon the students sent out, so that the
work required of them shall not I'M
/ easonably interfere with school duties
but it should be remembered that the
Kansas university holds that the girl
who does outside work should not be
encouraged to attempt to do full work
in school.
Some Of the girls of strong constitu-
ton. who come from the farms, where
they have enjoyed .1lsuqh outdoor life,
besides earning all expenses outside,
have made such high class records as
to be elected to the honorary scholar
ship fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa
Working Girls Graduated.
OF the IA seniors elected to this or
ganiZation at the first election in the
last school year, six were working their
way, three boys and three girls.
Social lines are not drawn against the
girls who work their way through the
Kansas university. The girls great
problem. is to balance the demands upon
her time so that she shall not become
a mere drudge, while at the same time
she cannot afford to scatter her forces
in too much social life for her finan-
cial obligations and those of the class
room are imperative.
1t is not necessary for the girl who
comes to this institution with desire
to work and earn a part or all of her
expenses of living, to emphasize any
difference between her situation and
that of others she will meet, nor to
strive to hide the fact that someone
else is not paying her bills. The uni
with its 1000 students, is so
large that such details are easily lost
in the crowd, while her own character
which IS the important thing, alone |
1t is the claim of this university that |
the most loyal and optimistic students, |
who go out from it's precincts. are those
w no work their way,