Show How Many Local Students Work Wort to Gain an Education on of a certain Salt Lake Lalee PATRONS P barber do not know perhaps that as he draws the keen blade of his razor through fifteen cents worth of whiskers his thoughts are far away from his prosaic trade wan Win wandering wandering dering with Homer through Hellas or with Dante through the Inferno And nd could the patron look into the tho mind of the tho tonsorial artist during the process of the te facial massage ma age he would see that In Instead Instead Instead stead of contemplating the foremost ridge of the tile nasal appendage the th bar barbers barbers bers hers thoughts are far away at the tile end of another nother bridge where one Hora Hors this stands beating boating back barbarian hosts while assembled Romans cheer him on This Is no flight Into fiction The barber is a student In the arts depart department department ment meat of ot the University of Utah and he ho Is 15 working his way through college coll Ae The Main street business man who settles languidly down upon the fit fitting fitting ting bench In a shoe store and a mo tao moment moment ment meat or two later Inwardly curses the youngster who roughly claps a anew anew anew new number nine brogan over oer a bunion tender as the heart of a humming hummingbird bird does not know perhaps that the mind of ot the boy far from being en engrossed engrossed engrossed grossed in the leather trade Is wres wrestling wrestling wrestling with the knotty knott problem when Is a contract unalterable or must re revocation revocation revocation vocation of an offer be communicated The youngster Is a law student who though working In the shoe business during only permits his lila legal thinking to double shift In Inthe Inthe Inthe the university mock court of which he heIs heIs Is ii a member It is a mooted question as to whether the youngsters mind Is Ison Ison ison on his lila law when he ha Is fitting a dainty feminine number A Will Ill nUll and a n Way Yay The barber and the shoe clerk are bUt two of many man local students who ire are working their way through school Handicapped Handi by lack ot at funds they have determined to get an education notwithstanding and having the will they the are finding the way Reports made to the authorities ef f the local university show that not a few tew stu students students students dents of that institution make their entire expenses during hours while many more earn a part of the money mone which supports them Statistics gathered Indicate that the theold theold theold old type hpe of ot man is giving way to the college man De Detailed Detailed Detailed tailed reports from students as asto asto asto to their earnings showed that fifty tift per cent earned more than of their expenses and per percent J percent er cent were entirely Of the men in the list 81 Si earned an in aggregate of during the sum summer summer summer mer months to be applied on their winters schooling Only nine of ot the men reported themselves as non nonproductive nonproductive productive Of the 95 9 women who re reported reported reported ported 47 earned a part or all of their college colle e expenses Of these 43 u earned during the summer months an average of 80 50 per woman Various Occupations The list of trades and activities reported by the students to the em employment committee is a varied one including electrical jobbing janitor work teaming bookkeeping newspaper per ver reporting newspaper carrying col collecting collecting collecting canvassing stone atone cutting and polishing assisting at hospital waiting on table tending lawn and furnace clerking in stores barbering clerical work tutoring musical work farming tending horses horae and Ind other livestock caring for automobiles night watching stenography and many others In the list presented by the women the pur pursuits pursuits pursuits suits range from professional nursing to sorting clothes In a laundry A former student of the university earned a considerable part of his school expenses by b running an elevator in one of the downtown office buildings His shift was from five to ten ton nightly He did what studying lie he could between the trips of or his car carand carand carand and by b extra effort and energy was able to graduate among the leaders of his class A present student at the school not only makes all alt of ot his own expenses but is able to contribute to the support of his sisters scholastic training Not only by incidental earnings are students helping to make their way through school but also by Judicious economics Every way and means Is taken by maIn mam to keep ke ep down the ex expenses expenses expenses of living Concerning this fea tea ture Miss Lucy Van Cott dean of the women says sas How Girls GIrl Manage Clubs of girls numbering from four to seven are renting furnished apart apartments apartments apartments ments and doing their own shopping cooking and laundry work These girls are lodging boarding and doing their laundry on 1250 a month each They have well cooked and nourishing food foods and their quarters are sanitary Two girls girl occupy one room for sleeping There are o oher her lIer girls whose expenses are 1500 a month Some of them pay a week for board and lodging and care for children two or three nights a week In addition These girls usually have a room to themselves and the privilege of doing their own laundry Other girls do housework night and morning for their board For extra work they receive additional remuneration rem Some girls put themselves through school by b doing typewriting and sten aten stenography In their spare moments Sev Several i eral oral girls earn ean their luncheons each day by serving behind the counter in inthe Inthe inthe the luncheon room Other girls earn extra money in doing housecleaning on Saturdays We have a large num number number I ber of boys bos who are milking cows attending furnaces chopping wood I waiting on tables assisting in kitchen I work and doing general housework for their board and lodging We also have a number of boys bos who assist with work In the university buildings ana are paid by the hour I Standing of Students Student In regard to the rank of the self supporting students the university authorities have hae issued the following statement Undoubtedly the student who must spond spend a considerable part of his time In working his way cannot attain so I high a rank in his studies as he might otherwise attain On the other hand i however his work may be a necessary I change from his study so that not all the time spent sIlent In outside work is taken t ken from the time for tor study stud Furthermore many man students stand stana high in scholarship It is i needless to say that they are not the ones who have hae trouble with the university au authorities authorities authorities The university does everything In Its lower power to assist worthy students In earning their way through college with one exception Under no circum circumstances stances will the standards of scholar scholarship scholarship scholarship ship be lowered The man who is working his way war and every other man must meet the uniform requirements for each course and for graduation The fhe university will aid no man in at taming a degree by cheapening that degree |