The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-05-23
WASHING WINDOWS
FOR AN EDUCATION
One of the Ways Men Pay Their
Way Through Princeton
University.

princeton, N. J.-When a thousand
of Princeton, plus nearly all
sne athletic heroes now in the uni
pers STOOD up and cheered their
cently given in President John Hib-
pens honor at the Waldorf-Astoria, in
NeW York, many persons might easily
nave supposed that any one who had
any connection whatever with Old
nassau a at least some funds to
nurn. But that isn't really so. for 1t
ls a question if any large college or
university in America has among its
STUDENTS SO great a proportion of men
VINO have to exc out their slim funds
with money they are able to earn them
serves during their four years under
months Of their summer vacations.
Indeed, so important a phase of
university life has this become at
Princeton that a bureau of student self
help, which has been in existence for
some time, has this year been placed
on a permanent basis by the appoint
ment OF a regularly employed resi-
dent secretary. 1t is TINS secretary's
business to develop the field of stu
dent employment by hunting up OPP
~portunities for work and then bring
ing together both the opportunities
and the students.
Tha both the opportunities and the
men are there is c~onclusively shown
by the bureaus books, which contain
the names of about $50 students who
are either entirely or partially work
ing their way through Princeton. OF
these, 1853 entered the university with
$500 or less as their total funds of the
year; 46 of the 1853 having less than
$500 for their entire yearly expenses.
There is no false pride about these
men who w come to Princeton. They
want first of all the education and
training the Orange and Black offers
and they are perfectly willing to work
hard to get 1t. In fact, the sort Of
pride they do show is the sort that
wins them commentator everywhere.
They can attend furnaces and they do
wash windows, proud all the time that
the money is to be earned and spent in
SO worthy a cause.
The work the students do is Of va
rious kinds. There is a Students
Pressing club, which presses and re-
pairs the mems wardrobe during the
year. Four students are at the head
of this club and they employ other
students, mostly freshmen, to call for
and deliver the clothes at the rooms on
the campus.
The Students express is another
means for the gathering in of helpful
coin. The students who handle this
work run a baggage wagon or two
around the campus both before and
at tne close or college, vacations ana
much OF the money that found its way
into the pockets of outsiders now goes
to help meet the bills of students.
OF curse, the dining halls furnish
opportunities for a large number and
this year there are 70 students who
find employment there. These men are
not employed as walters, but as at
PENDANTS at the cigar stands, or mont
tors in the dining room; to report on
the service, the food or The conduct
Of the walters.
Opportunities have been secured for
a number Of students to work in town
taking care of furnaces, keeping yards
and gardens In order, washing win
dows and waxing hard wood floors, as
we'll as pott1ng plants and putting
them into Conservatives in the fall and
setting them out in the spring.
The athletic association affords
other opportunities for work as gate
men and ushers and selling programs
and, of course, there Is a large num-
Der Of men who act as correspondents
for newspapers, and others who find
plenty to keep them busy writing
syllabi or acting as tutors, or as loca
agents for New York and Philadelphia
business houses.
Experience at Princeton has clearly
proven that any fellow who is willing
to work and has the ambition to secure
a university education, even though he
may be without sufficient funds tt
provide for this expense, can support
himself through his college course a
Princeton.