SELF-HELP STUDENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 29 January 1912, Page 2

SELF-HELP STUDENTS.

Statistics printed here (says the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) show that the number of students who work their way through American universites tends rather to increase than decline; and there is confirmation also that the social status of the students is not handicapped, because in some cases, indeed, in most—the parents pay for 'their sons' education, and in others the boys pay for themselves. The students in one great university, Columbia, earned over £15,000 in the academic year, and they tried every form of employment imaginable, from secretarial work to bricklaying. Numbers of young men worked at waiters in hotels during the summer holidays and some as 'bus conductors- —a fact which ; so far from stimulating the snobbishness "inherent ■in some boys with paying parents," seems rather to have had the reverse effect. Columbia self-help students made one-half of the total.■earnings during the summer holidlays. One man earned over £500 during the a'cadeniic year. He was a senior^ and made this big sum by acting as press agent for an actress and by tutoring, and writing librettos.