The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-23
400 PUPIL SOLDIERS
TO EARN EDUCATION
Cut OFF by Uncle Sam, They
Ask Work to Complete
Courses at Columbia.
OCCUPATIONS ARE VARIED
Yearning for War Training
Adds Many to University
Rolls in Peace Time.

And they shan beat their swords
into pioughshares." That is going to
be the motto of a large proportion OF
the members Of the disbanded students
Army Training Corps still remaining
at Columbia University.
Though the attractions Of a military
training formed the primary magnet
that drew scores Of the 5000 members
Of the Students Army Training Corps
to Columbia. me extra trimmings In
the way Of collateral courses OF the
usual collegiate type prescribed by the
War Department determined many OF
them to acquire an education until the
four years struggle was ended and
an armistice was declared with the
professors.
But Of those remaining about 400
found that they were mustered out
last week and they no longer had the
Treasury Of the United States to back
them in their mastery of the three
rahs that they would have to hoat
some kind OF Individual Liberty Loan
to support than while they wormed
the inner secrets out Of history and
burned the Midnight cigarette over
psychology.
A Select 'Tour Hundred"
However, the mere lack Of a few
slick jltneys couldn't daunt them In
their desire to corner the best brand
of knowledge obtainable in New York,
Perhaps the fact that Columbia Is CO.
educational has something to do with
their resolve to stick with their edu-
cation to the bitter end. At any rate
these young men. who constitute a
select -four hundred" Of their own In
the social circles Of Morningside
Heights, fled applications with the
University Appointments Committee
for work.
According to lowering Tyson, secre-
tary OF the appointments committee
the men working their way through
college are divided into those who ffnd
they can stimulate their bank rolls
sufficiently by working only part OF
their time while still getting flushed
up over physics, chemistry and the
arts and those who lay off thinking
entirely for a time until they have
earned enough TO resume grooming
the old bean for a 100000 corpora
ton.
The part time workers, according to
Information furnished by Miss Breed
Mr.. Tyson's chief assistant, go in
mainly for tutoring, handing on their
| bright thoughts to youngsters few
Jumps behind them in the race for
knowledge. The pay for this varies
| from 40 to rs cents per hour-less than
the embryo strategists had hoped tc
draw from the Government but still
ample enough for philosophy and
! fussing.
Many Varieties of Work.
Other employment is found as Cler-
! cal workers, athletic instructors al
private schools or settlements, walters
| in university dining halls. bookkeepers
draughtsmen, surveyors and part
time" chauffeurs. OF course tending
the furnace. that standby OF genera
tons Of college students who have
I risen to fame and fortune will not be
I forgotten this winter,
/ The full time workers in some in
! stances put in their complete number
/ OF union hours during the day in
/ making the world rich for democracy
| and then become union college stu
/ dents in the extension courses al night
! Others work for a term and then rest
up in college for a term. Mr.. Lever
ing said that some OF the former mem
bers OF the S. A. T. G. this year would
work until February, ard about one.