New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
COLUMBIA MEN
EARNED S57,7O0
Four Hundred Students Made
Summer Profitable by Doing
All Sorts of Work.

While the majority OF students Of Co
lum5ia University were enjoying their
vacations last summer. about four hun
dred Others earned So. 7O5 rs. The figures
for summer earnings show an increase ~
almost $4,000 over the amount the stu
dents earned in 1912. Many Of the stu
dents found work on their own initiative,
while others relied solely on the univer-
sity office for employment. At work
which they found without the help OF the
office the students earned s2s.S9S %, while
the work which the university found for
them totalled s2s.3l2 80.
One boy showed an aptitude for work
Of many kinds. He earned $50 as ooo.-
black. So as a mason. $40 by plasterinS
and painting. finishing the summer by
putting in a month on a farm. for wnicn
he received another so. \ senior earned
So writing signs and trimming windows
and then turned his hand 10 taking al
country fairs, which Melted him 800 ard
his expenses. s. Another student conducted
q party through Europe. which netted
him al his expenses and little pocket
money besides.
An engineering student sold real estate
and al night was clerk at soda fountain,
earning i'm all $50 Another student
worked at night az an automobile sales
man and earned 1920 in the four months
4 senior was sent to Buffalo by the once
and earned se7 81 collecting statistics on
traffic at crossings in that city. one en-
gineonng student was pharmacist ana
earned $50 thereby. and another put IN
the summer as a mate on sailing yacnt
and netted 30 in addition to his OK
penses.
one Of the Journalism students spent
the summer travelling in Europe as
private secretary 10 college professor.
His harvest was $50. Barnard glrl
hired herself out as a Governess ana
earned SO and expenses. \ law studenl
was caddie master Al a we'll known Soli
course on Long Island. and earned more
than enough TO meet his tuition Dill An
other law student put in the summer III
his fathers bakery. while q graduate stu
don't sold life insurance ut pront "a
himself oil NlD. y IuHloi ~ wv $3.50
vcrked As a train clerk, receiving neariy
saDa and a classmate was chauneui
end earned $50 Another college student
mt in a month As Q milkman getting 3"
lie sold drugs for another month, earning
thereby so and finished up the summer
as reporter for a sociological paper
netting SO al that.
.In all. $50 students we're resiste. 20
With the office for the summer employ
ment as against 400 for 1872 reads the
r.nort Previous experience has tauen'
that approximately one out OF every TWO
u,bo registers for employment obtains
soma kind Of work 10 do through the as
distance of the office. The average earn
ings in all departments of the university
shaved an increase. with the exception
~ the Law School. the graduate faculties
and the School of Fine Arts.
The earnings in the college were S's'
for each one or the 1876 students report
t,r a. against s5s Il for 1912. The Law
school dropped from sl0s 20 10 ISL 20. ano
the number Of students reporting dropped
nv t,n The average earnings Of eacn
one NJ the ,0s students who reported were
ca (, AS against SIS - for 1872. and the
nupber Of students reporting was ~
mare than I'M 1872