Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-27


impressive sum of one hundred and fourteen million
dollars by the middle of the coming June.
That they will actually get away with much more
than this is a foregone conclusion. Our estimate,
which is obviously conservative includes nothing for
clothing. and if there is thing that American stu
dents of both insist upon IS being clothed 1t
makes provision for railroad fares for dues in fra
ternes and literary societies, for athletics, for junior
proms, and for other items of extraclassroom activity
that students deem essential and fathers deem expen-
sive.
Possibly one hundred and twenty-five million dol
lars would more nearly approximate the annual expendl-
ture. But whether the actual amount is larger or
smaller than this, the fact remains that the American
student has interesting methods of getting money, and
scarcely less interesting ways OF spending it.
The most common and least interesting plan for
financing college education has already been limited
Father pays the bills for thousands of students in
this and other countries every year In fact, number
of Woodworking and much-payng individuals might
be found who feel that fitting caption for this
article would be- "The College Student and His
Fathers Money"
complained continually of his sons extravaganza, but
kept sending checks. At the close of of his let
tiers the father wrote Your studies my SON are cost
ing great DEAL To which he received the prompt
and frank reply Il know it. Father, and don't study
very hard, either
Not that writing to Father is always the easiest way
for college student to increase his current assets.
The anthology of American humor is full of ceverly
worded appeals and still clevery worded refusals
But thousands of boys and girls do start colegeward
every autumn sereney confident that Father will stand
by with his friendly checkbook and his nmble fountain
pen; or, if not Father, then Mother, or Brother or
even Maiden Aunt, for, when it comes to accepting
legal tender college students like the rest Of
emphatically not respecters OF persons.
Very little is attached to the fiscal affairs of
students who financed from well-to-do homes.
But the monetary chronicles of boys and girls who
their way full of thrills Third-ave. meo
drama And the thrills are real.
TN earning money to meet college expenses the self
supporting American student makes good of the
summer interval. While the remittance men Of his
c1o cbocn oil EJ1rny IN he
Adrondacks, or lounging about the summer hotels he
is acting clerk waiting table If called upon to
serve his classmates, is frequently the he
does it in quiet, matter-offact way, and seldom do
his mates indicate by word gesture that his tenn
porary employment requires either explanation apo
ogy Possibly they the probability OF his passing
them in the coming semester either the cnder track
in trg test, which gives them respect for him far
beyond that which they would concede to an ordinary
waiter.
Summer resorts offer other jobs that pay fairly well.
student who feels that he is hopelessy mscast in the
role of waiter may prove himself star at renting boats
or patrong the beach a life guard Back in the
country he may sell subscription books or pictures,
and learn lot about human nature at the time.
Or he may 60 farm and feed stock, milk the COWS,
and help get in the hay and grain Farm work demands
long hours, and many college students not physc
ally equal to it. but the pay has recently reached
of the Far and Middle West well sprnked with college
boys, intent saving up for rainy college year.
There is almost no limit to the number of ways in
which students money during the college period
Harvard reports nearly hundred varieties of openings
for students who compelled to seek gainu occupa
ton during the academic year Yale offers practically
the range of choice, with few added entries
such selling volets, wheeling invalid chairs, vending
bottled spring water, giving seightofhan entertain
ments, operating stereoptcons and contributing to
magazines.
A T Princeton the bureau of self help has just
peted it's first year. Under the direction of this
organization. with which President Hbben is in hearty
sympathy, one hundred and sixtyseven students sup
ported themselves partly entirely Nearly eighteen
thousand dollars passed directly into the students
hands of he student