The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-20
MANY STUDENTS
WORK THEIR WAY
539 Enrolled In Cornell Help to
Pay Own Expenses

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New York, Jan. 2O.-The quest fo
funds with which to ray his wal
through college brought one Columbi,
student To his knees last summer as ,
| boutblack. In two weeks he saved $50
! Then he turned mason ana saved 81.
| i'm another two weeks. Next. he took az
farm labor and saved another $50. The
total gave him a good start on IN,
winters tuition bill. other needy col
umhia men spent the hot summer
months In much the same way and,
while their weather classmates were
idlmg. earned $57,1O6.1G, an increase of
almost 100000 over 1917. according to
the report given out by the appoint
meuts committee.
Not all of the students got down ON
their knees and polished shoes. ON the
contrary, one hustling young man Of
the thrd-year class conducted party
through Europe. which uetted him all
his expenses and little pocket money
besides. Another earned $50 writing
signs and trimming windows and then
turned his hand at fahug at country
gairs. which Melted him 500 and his
expenses
Real Estate and Soda.
An engineering student sold real
estate and at night clerked at a soda
fountain for a pross gain of $3.50. An
other worked al night us an automo-
bile salesman and earned $500 iu the
-four months \ senior was sent to
Buffalo by the office and earned $3.50
collecting statistics on traffic at grade
crossings. one engineering student
earned $3.50 as a pharmacist and an
other put ia the summer as mate on
"a sailing yacht and Melted $50 i'm addi-
tiun 10 his expenses. one of the jour
ualism students spent the summer
travelling i'm Europe as private secre-
tary To college professor, and his
gross earnings We're $3.50.
\ Barnard girl got a place as gov |
'rness and earned SO and expenses, !
while a law student was caddie mas
Ter at well-known course on Long !
island and earned more than enough !
10 meet his tuition bill. Another law !
student put in the summer in his faith |
rs bakery ana earned his tuition |
money while graduate student sold |
lie insurance At a profit to himself of /
1870. \ junior in the college worked !
IS a train clerk on one Of the larger
.astern railroads and earned nearly
200, and a Classmate was a chauffeur
Place Half of Applicants.
The report OF the appointments COM
nittee says in part:
In all $50 students were registered
With the appointments office for sum
ner employment, as against 400 for
912. Previous experience has taught
hat approximately one out of every
wo who registers for employment OBJ
aims some kind OF work 10 do through
he assistance Of the Office This held
rue in the summer of 1913 The aver
&c earnings in all department of the
University showed an increase, with
he exception of the law school, the
raduate faculties ana the school of
ne arts. The decrease in each of
hese instances, however, was small
nd was more than compensated for by
he increase in earnings in the other
Ohools.
The earnings in the college were
99.9s for each one Of the 1876 students
rporting, as against S5Sl4 for 1872
he law school dropped from $l02.Id
I 1913, and the number Of students
-purting dropped by ten. The aver
81 earnings Of each one Of the 4O2
tudrnts who reported was $70.42, as
gainst $5S.ij for 1872, and the num-
er Of students reporting was IA more
lun In 1912. The average earnings in
lc various schools, with the number
students reporting, were, aside from
be- college: Law. $91.9S for Sc stu
ents; medicine, $57,33 for 20; engi-
eerine, SASS for 60; graduate facul-
os, $Gu.G9 for 60; fine arts $20.3S for
ght Barnard, 1867 for -; teachers
plloge $l3.3l for -; journalism.
loS.G2 for II, and extension. $l1.S4 for
Apparently the Office was able to
% Just what the university expects
1T e., to find work for those who
re- unable t. And it for themselves"