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...Princeton Bureau of Self-Help, which corresponds to the University's employment office, now has an enrolment of 267 members, all of whom have been given opportunities or remunerative positions. Seventy-two of this number are seniors, 89 are juniors, 75 sophomores, and 31 freshmen...
...fact that 1,000 students of the university at Syracuse, N. Y., are to earn their way this year in whole or in part, is calculated to awaken the envy of the country colleges, where the opportunities for self-help are limited by the environment. Educational institutions located in cities certainly have an advantage at this point. Men at the young Men's Christian Association College in this city, for earning money than the college boys in Amherst or Williamstown, despite the fact that special effort is made in both Williams and Amherst to get jobs for students who desire...
...doormen, and floor captains. Each waiter works two meals every day and sits with the other students for the third. For this service, if he works full time, he gets payment which is equivalent to the remission of board. Applications for the position are made through the Bureau of Self-Help...
...Galt, secretary of the Princeton Self-Help Bureau, reports that the system inaugurated last September is thoroughly satisfactory. The students working in the Commons take real pride in doing their work well and the system of fines is not essential to insure punctuality. The men who board at the Commons are satisfied and approve of the system. The employment of additional students offsets the greater efficiency of professional waiters, and does not retard the service or increase running expenses. The students doing the work report that they become better acquainted with their classmates than they could by any other means...
...Harvard create more opportunities for self-help and, like Princeton, attract the country's attention to her democratic and progressive spirit--Emerson had the job of "President's Freshman." The problem of nation-wide representation will then be on the way to a solution, and Western and Southern states will be as well represented at Harvard as is the State of New York. FREDERICK BUTLER...