The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-09
COLLEGE JOBS
NET 81 MILLION
FOR STUDENTS
Survey Reveals so Per
Cent of Men, 20 Per Cent
Of Women Work


New York, Aug. s.-(UP) Student
earnings during the college year ag-
gregate $32.500. 900, with nearly 50
per cent Of the men and 20 per cent
Of the women self-supporting In
whole or In part. according to Q sur
vey made by the alumni secretary
Of Columbia University.
Clarence e. Lovejoy, the secre-
tary, studied employment condition
in sos institutions in making his
report. He found that increased
emphasis placed on student employ
ment has opened many new cppcr-
tunities.
more students work in coeduca-
tional institutions than in any other
type" declared Lovejoy. Some like
Park and Antioch have 100 per cent
OF the student body earning money.
colleges are proud Of their rec.
ord Of working students" Lovejoy
said. "Their presidents, deans, pro-
fessors and personnel officers know
how to help them. On most self
respecting campuses an alert man
or woman Is in charge Of student
employment and perhaps several
men aSid women are maintaining
an ef1cient business-like personnel
ONCE with card files, bulletin boards,
interview rooms and other faciii-
ties"
More Work in West.
There are fewer self-supporting
students in New England and
Southern colleges than there are in
the Middle West and Far West.
Lovejoy found. He reported that
the University Of Washington had
recent banner year when 4,025
men students, or 72.3 per cent, and
l,125 women, or sos per cent, were
partly or entirely self-supporting.
One year the University Of Wis
consin had $3.50 men, or almost go
per cent, working, some is per cent
of them entirely self-supporting and
10 per cent earning more than half
of their expenses.
"Most colleges decline to accept
responsibility for finding part-time
jobs for their students, but they do
the best they can," Mr.. LoveJoy
said. Some ban too many working
hours; some impose no limitations.
Self supporting students are the
fair-haired boys and girls of some
professors. They are favored when
quiz marks are posted. These stu-
dents have prominence and popular
ity, leadership and personality. With
precious few exceptions, jobs carry
no stigma of inferiority.
"At Princeton, where one out OF
every three students works, the
workers have held IS per cent Of
the class offlcerships in recent years
and six out of every ten undergrad
uate councilorships. approximately
one-half of the major sports cap
tains have been enrolled as workers
and third of the eating-club presi-
dents. Six out of 10 Rhodes schol-
ars have been employed; flye out OF
ten Phi Beta Kappa members have
been earning their own way" Love-
Joy reported,
some Earn $1,000.
The best Jobs on college CAM
pus are In the student agencies,
where students make as much as
81, 800-$2,0o0 year. the survey re-
yealed. There are dozens Of stu
dents making more or less than
$1,000 a year in the new student
agencies.
"Job-getting is no longer hap
hazard" Lovejoy declared. 1T Is at
least an art, If not science. Jobs
are harder to locate and, what's
more, the competition is keener now
that so many colleges have adopted
selective admissions and are attract
ing smarter students. The employ
ment bureaus cannot be expected to
do the impossible. There just aren't
enough jobs to go around"
The college employment bureau
has its responsibilities, according to
Lovejoy. Students, no matter how
needy, must not work too many
hours. Health must be guarded.
These and dissertations have been
offered by MAS and Ph.D.s, Prov
ing all sorts of things up to and In
GLIDING the theory that students
who work as many as 80 hours a
week collect not poor marks but bet
ter grades, he said.