HIGH FIGURE REACHED IN STUDENT EARNINGS

Despite unfavorable business conditions, students in the University earned last year toward their self-support $96,860.68 in jobs secured through the College Employment Office and other agencies at the University, according to the annual report of the Employment Office, made public recently.

The report, while it includes only positions secured through university agencies and makes no mention of the numerous jobs which students secured independently outside, throws light on the most popular ways of earning an education at the University. It shows that an average of 40 students a week were employed during the year as waiters by the Union alone, earning a total of over $22,000, and 252 men were employed by the Athletic Association as clerks, ticket-takers, waiters, etc.

Positions as monitor and proctor for the University also were popular, 158 men serving as monitors and 85 as proctors. The Employment Office placed 74 students as tutors or tutor-companions, 64 as clerks, and 36 as chore men, while 34 secured typewriting work through the efforts of the office. There were also 22 student guides, 21 ushers, 17 chauffeurs, 15 musicians, and 13 waiters. Other students were employed as camp counselors during the summer, as salesmen and boys' club leaders, as stenographers and farmers, as coaches and translators, as janitors and librarians, and in a large variety of other kinds of work.