The New York herald., 1921-07-24
PRINCETON BUREAU
AIDS POOR STUDENTS
Secures Jobs for All Who APP
ply to Help Them Work
Their Way Through.
ENTERPRISES ON CAMPUS
sseny Positions Filled by Self
Help Organization Of the
University.

PRINCETON, N. j.. July 23.-The close
OF the recent college year has seen at
Princeton the completion of the most
successful period in the history of the
Students Bureau Of Self Help, tho Of
ficial university organization for aiding
men to work their way through college.
Despite the bad business situation OBJ
taining throughout the country the
bureau never before has been so eff
ficient in it's efforts to secure Jobs for
all men who apply. Statistics show that
QUO of every six students In Princeton
is working his way through either en-
tirely or in part. The vast majority Of
these get their opportunities through
the bureau, and their earnings for the
year total well over $S000
The construction of the University
Commons at the time that Holder Hall
and that section of the campus was
built brought as one Of it's chief benefits
the chance for all men who so wished to
obtain their board free by waiting on
the table. This has gone on as the en-
rolment of the university has increased
until now over hundred men are en-
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free meals and by extra efforts can also
earn beyond this. The more efficient.
and those with executive leanings, are
made head walters In their upper class
years, and one man superintends the
entire serving facilities OF the Commons
at real salary.
Many Standard Jobs.
There still are the old standard jobs,
which novels are SO fond of portraying
as the occupations Of the working boy
In college. such as cutting grass and
sweeping snow or attending to furnaces.
These still exist. as townspeople rely to
q great extent on the bureau to secure
some one for them to attend to all odd
jobs during the college year. There are
such opportunities also as caring for
automobiles, driving them to the sum
fner homes Of the owner after college
closes in June.
Y In addition to the traditional occu-
patfons. the Introduction OF modern ed
ucational methods and all other changes
which time has brought about in the
last few years have had in their train
any number of opportunities for the
hard pressed student. The men taking
chemistry are always in demand, both
in the university and the nearby Rookie
fcler Institute to clean up laboratories
and to wash the delicate apparatus. The
scientifically inclined can also act as
monitors in their upper class years in
the university freshman courses in chem
istry physics and biology.
Those who possess good voices are
able to make the chapel choir, always a
bitterly contested group of jobs, and for
their singing each Sunday receive re-
nuneraton from the university. Others
work on Sunday by being monitors in
chapel. All the large lecture courses re-
Quire monitors. which are appointed by
the dean of the college from those taking
The particular course.
New Enterprises Opened.
In recent years a number Of ambi-
tious enterprises have grown up on the
campus which are tending to take cer-
tain classes of business out of the hands
of the townspeople. Chief among these
are the students shoe shop and the stu
dents pressing establishment. The stu
dents do not do the actual physical work
of these enterprises but manage and di-
ret them, receiving in return the profits,
which are generally large enough to pay
a mans way through college. Regular
competitions are held for freshmen to
determine whose the opportunity shall
be.
Almost all the campus publications
and organizations make a certain
amount of money, such as the Daily
Princetonidn, the Tiger and the Prince
touEun Pictorial While the compe-
titions for these are by no means linn
tied TO men who are working their way
through college. any one who makes
them receives his share of the years
profits.
A great number of jobs. come to the
bureau to be filled by way of the
university. More than thousand
gatekeepers, ushers and ticket sellers
are required for the annual big game in
Palmer Stadium in November. and
lesser number for all athletic events.
Officials OF the bureau thus show that
any man who comes to Princeton with
out much money can earn his way
through. The university will grant him
one OF the numerous scholarships If he
stands well in his studies and assists
him In any way. For his incidental ex-
penses there are all the ways men
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