Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
FEW STUDENTS CAN PAY
OWN BILLS In COLLEGE
University Of Pennsylvania Survey
Shows Average Earning Is
Around $40 Weekly.

Tutoring is not as popular pursuit
as one might suppose. there being but
| five Pennsylvania students engaged in
| this occupation. Doubtless, this Is
| because most students who are Obliged
| to pay their way, or at least part of
it, earn first and then study. They
do not become sufficiently proficient in
| the difficult studies like the languages
| and mathematics to be able to render
any valuable assistance to conditioned
| students. University authorities, as
| the circumstances seem to warrant,
discourage the idea of a student being
able to earn more than a portion Of
expenses while working for his de-
gree.
The probabilities are that student
| earnings will not increase at the
| larger institutions. Entrance require
ments are becoming sitter every year
| and increas ed enro1lments are being
| discouraged. The boy who is obliged
| to work in order to get through col.
| lege is apt to be in a position where
| he must work in preparing for college.
| This work may interfere with his
| preparatory school work and render
him unfit for entrance.
Placement Service Aids.
courage the boy whose family does
not enjoy normal prosperity. A uni
versity of high academic standing
does not fancy the picture of it's I'M
derSraduates engaged in business and
professional work, with classwork
mere side issue. If the aggregate
earnings of University of Pennsyl-
vania students increase very likely it
will be due to better placement of
those seeking occupations.
Already, the placement service in
the Philadelphia institution is at work
finding better occupations for stu
dents. Director Clewell, in discussing
the investigation, says: Sometimes,
by a Slight change in the kind of work
or by capitaliZing previous experience,
the student can be transferred from
| task requiring great sacrifices of time
| and strength with poor pay to one
which will give him the necessary in.
come with less costly effort"
There are, of course, many of the
conventional occupations to provide
expense money for these Industrious
colleglans, but changing conditions in
daily life have served to popularize
various less collegiate ways of max.
ing money for tuition, board and
books. Only ID University of Penn.
sylvania men are picking up spare
| change as librarians. Only are
teaching. Banks take only q men,
while business houses find room for
only % as bookkeepers.
Near $40 Weekly.
Times are changing and so it is
not surprising that many help to pay
| their way as chauffeurs, stage hands
and ticket choppers in movie theaters.
| In the present fiscal year, % of them
are drawing pay as managers, earn
| money as auditors while 10 serve as
newspaper editors and reporters
Some men are working as actuaries
translators and advertising statesmen
Only 5 appear to be interested in real
estate.
The report from Pennsylvania sets
to rest the belief that college men
coin large sums while pursuing their
studies. The average student earns
about $270 during the term time and
$3.50 during the Summer. This is
slightly less than SO a week, and in.
wolves but 81 per cent of the enroll.
ment in the undergraduate schools of
the university.
1t is only the exceptional undergrad.
uate who earns a spectacular amount
Out of one university of 4,619 students
there are only four who earn $20t
a month or over. One student at Yale
| thought he was running at the rate
| Of $500 month. IT proved to be fol
| one month just previous to his unsuc
! cessful exams.
| If Ben Franklins great institution
| finally decides to move, it is evident
| that the undergraduate body will still
| rely on dad, the family, accumulated
wealth. the State and contributions tc
| the University for the bulk of its col
legiate expense.