Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-04-04
WASHING WINDOWS FOR AN Ed
CATION AT PRINCETON.
One of the Numerous Ways in Which
Men With Limited Means Pay Their
Way Through the University.

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| Princeton. plus nearly all the athletic
heroes now in the University stood
UP and cheered their new president at
the big dinner recently given in Presi-
dent John Hibben's honor at the Wal
dorf- Astoria in New York, many per-
sons might easily have supposed that
any one who had any connection what
ever with Old Nassau had at least
some funds to burn But that isn't
really so, for it is a question if any
| large college or university in America
| has among it's students so great a pro-
portion of men who have to eke out
! their slim funds with money they are
| able to earn themselves during their
| four years under the Princeton elms,
or during the 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 permanent basis by the
appointment of a regularly employed
resident secretary. 1t is this secre-
taryis business to develop the field of
student employment by hunting up
opportunities for work and then bring
| ing together both the opportunities and
| the students.
| That both the opportunities and
the men are there is conclusively
shown by the Bureaus books which
contain the names of about one hun
| dred and fifty students Who are either
entirely or partially working their
way through Princeton. Of these one
| hundred and ffty-three entered the
University with $500 or less as their
total funds of the year; forty-six of
the one hundred and fifty -three having
! less than 5000 for their entire yearly
expenses.
There is no false pride about these
men who have 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 it. In fact the
sort of pride they do show is the sort
that wins them commentator every
where. 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 vari-
Gus kinds There is a Students Press
ing Club, which presses and repairs
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 de-
/ liver 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 baggage wagon or two
around the campus, both before and
1 at the close of college vacations and
! much of the money that found its way
into the pockets of outsiders now goes
to help meet the bills of students.
i OF course the dining halls furnish
opportunities for a large number and
A this year there are seventy students
| who find employment not as walters
hut attendants at the cigar stands, or
lmonitors 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
ttaking care of furnaces, keeping yards
4 and gardens in order washing win
dows and waxing hardwood floors, as
well as potting 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 number
of men who act as correspondents fol
the newspapers, and others who fine
plenty to keep them busy writing
4 syllabi or acting as tutors, or as Local
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 Sc
lcure a university education, ever
though he may be without suficien'
funds to provide for this expense, car
support himself through his collegt
course at Princeton.
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