University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-03
STUDENT CAN LIVE
ON $225 A YEAR
More Than Five Hundred
Earn This Amount While
Attending School.
Sl,54O MADE In JANUARY
Club Furnishes Board at 81. 80
a Week-Room at SIS to
$35 a Year.

The average cost to a student in
his senior year in the University of
Missouri is $312.5O. The expenses
of under-classmen and juniors are
less. During the year 1901 W.
W. Charters, dean of the School of
Education, kept an accurate account
of the expenses of eighteen unmar-
ried men and found that they ran
from 1925 to s4S3 for the school
year.
The Y. NJ. c. A. employment bu-
reau estimates that a student may go
to school at a cost of 1925 a year.
This includes all necessary expenses.
More than five hundred students
come to Columbia each year and earn
this amount while attending school.
All kinds of positions are filed by
students. Much of the work on the
State Farm is done by University
men. All the boarding houses en-
ploy students as walters. Students
cut the grass on the lawns of Colum-
bia; they shovel snow, make furnace
fires, clean up the house and take
care of the horse for their room or
board; the gatekeeper at the ball
game is a student; many Of the clerks
in the stores of Columbia are stu
dents and even clerks at some Of the !
hotels.
The Employment Bureau.
The Y. NJ. C. A. employment bu-
reau is of more advantage to the
irst-year men than to those that have !
been here before, for after the first
year in college. students have No
trouble in finding work themselves !
During the month of January the
students who had got work through
this bureau earned $3.50. At this
time Of year the bureau has more
Jobs open than it can eli.
When Harold Linn of Louisiana,
Mo-, came to attend the four-month
short agricultural course last winter
he had $31. The employment bu-
reau found work for him and when
he went home he had $50.
Most Of the students who work
their way through college board at
the University Dining Club. Many
of them DOM at Benton Hall or
Lathrop Hall, both Of which are
owned and managed by the state.
Board costs $2.5e a week and rooms
are $50 to $35 a year. Board at
houses COTS $3.50 to s. a.
week. II
The sumner vacation of students G
Is sftsn spent in eanvassing. This .
ever fny students are with one q
They will sell books in q
different parts of the United States. .
Other companies have as many men. I
R. Ford of Rich Fill. Mo-, has v
,aEasd enough money in the last p
;our years selling books to pay for .
his education and to have a bank q
Of four figures. Last he V-s
'sivsd his A. B. degree and he will
get his A. n this year. He received
he Townsend Scholarship in naths- 81
MATES this rear and win 30 to Hsr- n
ard in 1913. q
low Another Ma Manages.
Aaelpk 9eI q junior slsstrisal :,
nsiHssr, has worked as table
raiser for three years. During the -,
Snnsr he makes enough money ts..
~ all his entrances TESS and to buy,
snoash Or the yssk Wsrk-"
81 Saturdays and in the sfssr-~
cons. he Makes snough money to :.
" for his laundry and resa rent.
Net all Ne students whs Werk
leir way through Ne University are
on Missouri. =. r. A. FSlsats Of
ialEAai. China, VII receive botA =.
he 4. D. and D. 8. in Journalism de-
rec this spring. when lie zane to
elunbfa I've years age hs had Just
leugh money 70 pay his entrance 81
rs. Since then hs hes made al his vi
Ionsy. lie kas bssn liEht orderly u
Ne Parker Memorial Hospital for se'
'vsral years. After graduation this y.
ring he intends to - into Journal u
in Missouri. f'H
". 4. LAnnon a crippled boy rem
No, has made his en- W
70 way through college for The last za'
rec years. 4 u . jnnior chemical tel
A position in he Ohm Of he
University Dning club bays all de
8 expenses. Hs sleeps in a stare. of
r. Lannon has kssn in the hsspital
r the last nine weeks and Will be of
reed h lose tbs ssnsstsr's work. Sc,
DWsver, he GhJs he will return 10 m,