New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-04
563 COLUMBIA STUDENTS
EARN S95,O35 IN YEAR
All Sorts of Odd Jobs LOOK
Good to Needy Undergrad
yates, Report Shows.
az GIRLS GET EMPLOYMENT |
Committee Relates That Do
nestle Service, Tutoring,
Clerking and Saving Wood
Were Sources of Profit.

More than five hundred students at
Columbia worked their way through col
; lege. either in whole or in part last year.
according to the annual report of the
committee on employment for students.
The students, by doing odd jobs of all
kinds during the summer vacation of 1911
and the academic year which ended last
June. earned s95 0S5 SO. More than one
third Of this was made from work found
for the students by the employment Of
! fee
! out OF the total number OF 56S students
there were forty-seven young women
/ from Barnard and Teachers colleges who
earned relatively just as much as the
men. They worked in private families
as tutors and governesses. and some or
them even got work meant for men stu
dents. 4 great many of the students
| found employment as tutors, and this
Kind Of work was the most lucrative.
During the summer vacation OF 1911 the
students earned a total of S9,4l6 29 with
the committees aid, and sl5,307 80 without
/ the committees aid making a total OF
/ 81. 723 81, or $500 less than the report for
/ the summer Of 1910. The falling off was In
the work which the students found for
themselves. the committees earnings III
that period increasing by more than N,5Vo
! In the academic year. which began last
! October and finished in June, the com
nittee found work that Melted s26,OO3 u
for the students, and by themselves they
} earned S443Os So or a total of $0,Sll S.
: nearly twice as much as they earned IN
I the corresponding academic year of 1870
II.
The average earnings in all the schools
/ of the university during the academic
year were: College. s133 6s; Applied Sci
/ ence. s73 60: Medical sl4s 81; Graduate
$50 e5: Law. S1S9 Il; Fine Arts, $S47 81;
+ Barnard College. sl64 s.; Teachers Col
/ lege. 1852 IS: Students in Extension
Courses, s76 -.
One student in the Law School spent
the summer in a country grocery store
and earned s2o4 Another worked In
Canadian paper mill and made .so. which
he supplemented with s12S earned by tu-
toring in a private family. A third year
student in the Medical School got little
practice at his profession by working as
camp physician at a summer camp III
Maine. and, in addition. cleared up sos
senior i'm Columbia College, who
started to work his way through the
university by waiting on table, spent his
last summer as an undergraduate by
managing a lunchroom on an excursion
boat. and Melted the tidy sum of 500.
Another student in the college played In
seacoast Orchestras and earned 24I one
enterprisng college student organized
travelling moving picture show company
at a profit to himself of $1,000
great many of the students were
clerks i'm banks and summer hotels, aver
aging in these positions about 500 a
month. One Barnard girl tried her hand
at several things, including looking after
children. making up financial tables and
redecorating a house. From these vari-
Gus sources she Melted 5000
Another Barnard girl taught gymnastics
in a summer playground and made Sl2O,
while q girl in Teachers College directed
a settlement house for the summer for
si25 The high record for the summer OF
1911 went to third year student in the
Law School, who worked as a life in
surance agent in the South and made
$685. Another Law School student clerked
in q shoe store and earned s206
A third year engineering student was
& cook and butler in a private family
for the entire year, and in addition TO
earning his board and lodging he cleared
So So Another engineering student spent
his Saturday evenings working as shoe
salesman and at this made sos. He also
did a little statistical work for the Re-
publican County Committee last fall, and
made $50 at that
This is what the report said OF oppor-
tunties boys in New York City have Of
working their way through college:
The student himself is always the de-
! termining factor. Ability, perseverance,.
| and energy have an ever increasing mar
| ket value and the man who possesses
| these three qualifications, and Is at the
same time presentable, more or less skilled
in some particular line Of work and re-
sponsible, has never much difficulty in
finding employment, either through as
sistance rendered by the committee or
Through his own initiative.
! The new student at Columbia, especially
II he is a stranger in New York, has an
unusually hard time OF 1t II he liz at all
pressed for funds. II takes time to learn
the highways and byways OF a great
CITY and where the greatest opportunity
offers A man has to be in New YORK
the greater part of a year before he ~
SufBciently familiar with all that IL going
on to be able to keep himself by mis- own
efforts.
The first weeks are especially hard. For
this reason the committee, after an eX-
perience covering nearly twenty years,
feels that no prospective student should
come 10 Columbia with less than 900
or $500 in his pockets. the greater amount
preferred.
II must always be borne in mind that
there are many students at Columbia who
realize and feel the obligation 20 be self
gupporting but because of the stress OF
their collegiate duties are able 10 &C.
cept only certain very limited kinds or
employment.
Allowance must be made for such stu
dents. for in many instances they are
the most deserving in the university.
With the operation OF several loan funds
that nave been placed at the disposal
of the university authorities from time
10 time in the past much has been done
10 relieve their burden, and If these
funds were greater much more good could
be done.
That the records OF the employment
committee should be consulted every time
an application for a loan is received goes
almost without saying, In order that the
privileges Of the funds should not be
abused by those who have both the time
and inclination TO work. but who are too
particular as TO the kind OF work they
will or will not take.
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