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Show HTERESTtHG DATA Fill THESTUBEMTS Many University Boys Practically Practi-cally Earn Their Own Way Through School. PRESIDENT KINGSBURY CONDUCTS INVESTIGATION Higher Education Not Beyond the Reach of Industrious Young Man. From statistics recently compiled it appears that there is no good rcaspn why a youug man of average ability and health should not bo able to complete com-plete a four-year course in the University Univer-sity of Utah with no capital whatever to commonco upon; this, of course, providing pro-viding ho has no one to support but 'himself. Two weeks ago President Kingsbury sont out letters to the college students requesting information as to tho amounts which thoy had boon able to earn during thoir summer vacations: what tlicy had mado during each school 3'oar while they wore carrying tho proscribed pro-scribed course of study in ono of the regular departments, either by outside work or through fellowships in the university; uni-versity; and what their expenses durmg each year had amounted to. The ex-ponso ex-ponso list in each caso was to include registration and laboratory fees, cost of books and other school expenses, us well ns the cost of living. Living expenses ex-penses includod tho following items: Board, room, railroad faro, car fare, clothes, amusements, class dues and duos for other college organizations, and,' in fact, evory necessity and tho common luxuries of any college stu-dout. stu-dout. Interesting Results. Tho results of tho investigation, which are to bo published in tho quar: torly bulletin, aro very interesting iu showing tho possibilities of working one's way through a universit3". Of ninety-two roplies taken at random from the entire number handed in by male students, tho following figures have been taken: Of the ninety-two all but eight aro earning something toward paying thoir own expenses. Tho only reason that these eight aro not earning earn-ing something is becauso they arc not. makintr any effort to do so, tfuc to tho fact that their nareuts or guardians supply them with the necessary funds. Nevertheless, fivo of theso eight work at home in consideration of their ex-ponsos ex-ponsos being paid. Of tho eightv-four who do cam, oighty-ono work during vacations. Of llieso eighty-one who do summer work, forty-one earn one-half of their total expenses and oightoon are absolutely abso-lutely self-supporting, making a total of fifty-nino, or 65 per cent of tho en-tiro en-tiro number, who make a substantial contribution to their expenses. Of the oightv-tlireo women, sixteon, it sooms. aro ablo to accumulate at least half onough to satisfy their landladies and tho exponses connected with their school work. Six of this number say that thoir only source of incomo is what they earn themselves. In Various Ways. Tho money is mado, it seems, in a variety of ways. Ono important source is from scholarships, fellowships and the like. Tho Wall scholarship in mining min-ing yields $500 annually, and the Grant scholarship amounts to $90. Thoro are fifty normal awards every year which give ono student free registration, equivalent to $10 for oach. Besides theso there are a largo cumber of fellowships fel-lowships through which worthy students stu-dents aro paid for work in tho classroom class-room and laboratory. Three of these in botany aro valuod at $200, $3S0 and I $350 respectively. Four in chemistry range in value from $170 to $110. Ono student instructor in Latin gets $400 for his services, and there are about a dnzfMi nthir; in f.lm vnrimn; rlAnnrf-mnnto which goes a loug way tffward helping pay the bills. A majority of the engineers have some work in their line of business dnring the summer. Surveying is a favorite way of accumulating money, whilo about 50 per cout of the engineers engi-neers aro occupied in some mining pur-"suit, pur-"suit, which is fairly productive Sov-eral Sov-eral men work with railroads, smelters, power companies and similar industrial concerns. During -Scliool- Year. During tho school year newspaper work nets money for somo students, while others havo agencies for school supplies, magazines, college novelties, books and othor things, which they can tend to without interference with their school work. Tho averago total cost of a year's work varies from $350 to $C00. depending, depend-ing, of course, on tho style in which tho individual student lives. Tho firsl amount is close to the minimum, bm it allows for a comfortable plan of lit ing and does not dony any of- the com forts or necessities of life. Tn the engineering en-gineering departments tho minimum is somewhat higb'er than this, becauso of tho comparatively largo fees which are ind;sponsnbIc in this department. Mnrr f.rminlrto data on llin Kiil-npf. I will bo given in tho bullotin which is to be publ;8hed in Iho course of a month, but from these figures it is evident evi-dent that h'fher education is not be-vond be-vond the reach of those who havo only limited means. Every possible assistance assist-ance is ?von to a student who comes to tlio university with little money and a willingness to work, and tho result, 1 of this investigation seem to show what can bo dono bv the nvcratrc student, i |