THE POOR STUDENT AT YALE.
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privilege of issuing the Yale Banner is
awarded annually to the highest sealed
bid submitted, and this as well as the
Senior Class Book, if well managed, will
handsomely repay the time spent in
getting out the publication. Nearly
all the papers in the large cities have
_ correspondents among the students who
write up the College news for daily or
weekly publication. Men possessing
special literary or artistic ability often
find plenty to keep them busy in maga-
zine work, and in illustrating of souve-
nirs.
EATING CLUBS.
The various eating clubs run by
caterers and landladies furnish a large
number of men with places to earn
their board by waiting on _ table.
Sometimes students act as carvers or
collectors and receive the same reim-
bursement. Clubs are also run by stu-
dents themselves, who not only get the
men together, but also do the market-
ing and detail work as well.
SUBSCRIPTION WORK.
Every Fall there is an opportunity to
solicit subscriptions for the College
papers and the Banner, and oftentimes
to.do collecting for the various athletic
organizations on commission. An
energetic person can make such work
very remunerative. Students with good
business heads are frequently engaged
to take charge of advertising, and in
the appointment of clerical assistants,
ushers, ticket-takers, etc., the different
athletic managers try as far as possible
to make their selections from the un-
dergraduates.
TYPEWRITING AND STENOGRAPHY.
There is one field at Yale, and a large
one at that, which is not at present
half filled. The student who can do
typewriting creditably will generally
find plenty of remunerative occupation
the year around. There is a constant
demand for this sort of work with the
numerous theses and _ contributions
which are submitted by the under-
graduates, and at cértain seasons it is
well nigh impossible to get work done
even at the city offices.
ORIGINAL SCHEMES.
Thirty years ago, before the Faculty
forbade the issuing of anonymous
publications, there were numerous clever
schemes devised to catch the eye and
arouse the curiosity of the College com-
munity. Some will doubtless remem-
ber the prints of the “Burial of Euclid”
and the “Battle of Shirtzka,’” which
were sold in the ’Sixties and ’Seventies.
Burlesques on College publications were
frequent, and often had a large sale.
To-day, though the attitude of the Col-
lege towards all anonymous publica-
tions is one of repudiation, there are
many original devices adapted to the
changed College life. Souvenirs of the
Promenade and the Football game find
a ready market. Photographs of Col-
lege characters and College customs
which escape the observation of the
ordinary city photographer, are eargerly
purchased as mementos of the life here.
One enterprising student is at present
paving his way as manager of a pant-
pressing concern, while another, ob-
taining a happy inspiration from the
New Haven City water, sells spring
water from his own home in the neigh-
borhood. An eye quick to appreciate
student wants will devise other practical
schemes of a similar nature.
WORK OUTSIDE THE COLLEGE.
The work which presents itself out-
side the College is of course so varied
in its nature as scarcely to admit of
comprehensive treatment. The care of
yards and furnaces in private families
offers a chance for many in the Winter .
and Spring. Soliciting for the different
trucking firms when the students ar-
rive in the Fall, and leave in the Sum-
mer, may also be mentioned. Students
as a rule are engaged to read the
metres in private houses for the gas
company, and at election time they are
the ones who are hired to distribute
political literature. There are oppor-
tunities for teachers in the evening
classes of the city Y. M. C. A. as well
as in the night schools, and men with
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good voices can command fair salaries
in the city churches, which also look to
the College for the superintendent
of their missions and boys’ clubs.
Undergraduates sometimes do _ tele-
graphing, clerking and elevator work
without interfering with their College
exercises.
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU.
In connection with the College
Young Men’s Christian Association
there is an employment bureau, where
men desirous of obtaining work may
enter their names. There is no fee for
registration, the only condition imposed
upon the applicant being that he takes
cheerfully any legitimate work which
is allotted to him. The service which
the Association has rendered in this
way to the College during the past
two years cannot be overestimated.
This Fall over thirty applicants from
the Freshman class received permanent
positions.
In conclusion it may be interesting
to note the proportion of men who have
worked their way through College,
wholly or in part during the past six
years, according to statistics in the
Class Books:
’92 "93 '94 ’95 °96 ’97 Total
ene ee Supporting... 7 12 I0 Ir 20 5 65
Partially Self Supporting... 50 38 51 4I 50 41 271
Total Number Graduated 173 182 236 244 280 280 1395
No better proof of Yale’s democratic
spirit is needed than the facts and fig-
ures presented above. It is interesting
to note as bearing on this point that
four of last year’s Junior Promenade
Committee, men elected to the highest
social honor which the class can be-
stow, had done something towards
paying their own expenses. It is well
known that no man is ever kept out of ©
the various class secret societies be-
cause of his lack of means. The poor
boy with push and determination will
not only find a way to support him-
self here but, other things being equal,
will always enlist the deepest respect
and admiration of his classmates.
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A Sensational Story.
The week following the Yale-Prince-
ton football game a New York paper,
The Voice, printed a lengthy article pur-
porting to describe the scenes in New
Haven after the game. ~The wildness
of the statements about excessive
drunkenness made by the Voice reporter
who had been sent to New Haven for
the purpose of covering the “orgies,”
were sufficient to stamp them as false.
The enemies of Yale, however, always
willing to circulate lying stories about
her, gave the article prominence, and
many inquiries as to the truth or falsity
of the report were received.
The letter of Gen. George H. Ford,
President of the New Haven Chamber
of Commerce, published in the New
Haven Register, shows what actually
did occur.
The letter follows:
Editor New Haven Register—
Sir:—Ordinarily averse to recogniz-
ing false and sensational stories or en-
gaging in newspaper controversies, the
publicity that has been given to an arti-
cle published in a New York paper,
The Voice, containing statements as-
tounding and false in reference to the
conduct of the students of Yale Uni-
versity .after the Yale-Princeton foot-
ball game of Nov. 20th, creating im-
pressions in the minds of some that
reflect on Yale University and the city
of New Haven, resulting in great in-
justice to both, should not remain un-
noticed. The entire article is an inven-
tion manufactured without reasonable
foundation. ees
The city as a whole and the vicinity
of the College on the night and day
after the game was orderly and quiet and
free from carousing, drunkenness, dis-
turbance or indiscretion of any char-
acter on the part of Yale students as
could be asked for by citizens of this
or any other city insisting on the ut-
most propriety. :
It was the. universal comment at the
clubs and about the hotels on the even-
ing after the game, assuming that it
was an occasion for rejoicing and an
event worthy of recognition, that the
College men were exceedingly dignified
in celebrating their victory, which was
accompanied by most temperate and
gentlemanly conduct.
Our citizens, the officers of the police
force and the records will endorse the
WEEKLY
fact that nothing occurred of any im-
portance at this time that was not per-
fectly consistent with the institution of
learning and athletic prominence that
Yale University enjoys.
As president of an organization com-
posed of four hundred and fifty repre-
sentative business and professional men,
an organization founded and fostered
by such men as Roger Sherman, Noah
Webster and other distinguished men,
and not connected with the University,
it is perhaps not inappropriate that the
above statement should be made in jus-
tice and truth.
GEORGE H. FORD,
President of the Chamber of Commerce,
City of New Haven.
Water Company’s Petition.
The petition of the New Haven
Water.Company to close the upper part
of Lake Whitney against boating, skat-
ing and fishing was heard before the
State Board of Health last Saturday.
President Eli Whitney, Mr. Watrous
and Moran, Counsel for the Water
Company, spoke in favor of the peti-
tion. Professor Dana, and a score of
citizens opposed it. The Board ren-
dered no decision and the subject will
be taken up at the next meeting, which
will be held in January. It is proba-
ble that the petition will not be granted,
as it will close to the public the most
beautiful portion of the Lake, without
apparently any good reason for it.
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