UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S AN EDUCATION
Young Women of Kansas Earn Their Way Through University
HOLD MANY KINDS OF JOBS
Care for Children, Cook, Iron, Nurse
Make Candy, Sew, Darn—Not
Handicapped Socially.
By LUCY BARGER
How can I get a college education?
This question has repeated itself many times to Kansas young women, high school graduates and school teachers, but when one of them decided to find a way to come to the University of Kansas last September her investigations brought back the answer that many young students had already solved the question for themselves and 100 to 150 out of 750 young women students were partly or wholly self supporting while getting their college education.
What can a girl do? A very logical question, but the K. U. working girl will tell she does anything and everything she can get to do. Some have taught school or earned their money before coming to the University; many have tutored various kinds while carrying on their University course. These duties range from instructor or stenographer to nurse girl and dishwasher.
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU HELPS.
This year the University Employment Bureau, maintained under the auspices of the Young Women's Christian Association, has located over forty girls in positions that are paying all or part of their expenses. The secretary, Miss Nadia Thomas, keeps on hand a list of a dozen or more girls whom she can call on at any time to go out and take care of babies of mothers whose social duties call them away for an afternoon or evening. At present about fifteen girls live in homes of town and faculty people and earn their expenses by assisting the wife and mother with her household duties. This work pays, on an average, fifteen cents an hour and a girl is expected to put in about three and one-half hours a day for her room and board. In answer to a list of unsigned inquiry blanks sent out by the chancellor last year one girl writes, "I receive my room and board for work done here and I am considered as one of the family which means that I have many advantages. My duties consist in preparing the morning and even meals doing the kitchen work three times a day, and assisting with the Saturday cleaning. My duties are very much as those of an elder daughter would be."
NOT AFRAID OF WORK.
Apparently there is nothing too hard for these girls to do to accomplish their purpose. This is how one girl more than paid her expenses while a student, "From September to November I washed dishes at a frat house and did chamber work and ironing at a club, from November to March, I was in a private family, got up at 3 o'clock every morning, ironed or studied and got breakfast. I had from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. for my classes and took dinner with my dinner and supper dishes and gave a patient bath and massage, then I studied till 12 o'clock. During the summer vacation I nursed $25 per week.
The offices of the University and different organizations among the students afford many lucrative positions to girls as stenographers, assistant instructors, librarian and amanuensis. The sororites and clubs often support one of their less fortunate sisters as stewardess and accountant.
MAKE BUSINESS VENTURES.
Whether due to lack of confidence or to uncertain conditions surrounding the life of the _working student, until the last year or so the idea of starting enterprises on their own responsibility had not been popular with the girls. However many are coming to realize this as the best paying and easiest way of bettering their financial status, and as a result some clever and unique ideas have originated. Making home candy for one of the stores down town is the way one girl found a profitable plan of supporting herself and little sister while she attended the University. This year two girls, one in the law school and the other a junior college, have started a simple dressmaking establishment in their rooms and are doing enough sewing to fill up every spare minute and pay most of their expenses. Another girl in the very center of the
student district, does mending, darning and simple hand sewing for the students of the neighborhood. One clever girl has realized a handsome profit on Irish Crochet collars made in her spare moments, at $2.50 each, besides this she declares, "I do all of my own sewing."
"I believe I could get all the work I could do, if I were better known," says a freshman girl who does hair dressing, shampooing and manicure work, between classes and on Saturday.
Do you find any lack of courtesy on the part of other students because of the fact that you have to work your way? This question appeared on the query blanks sent out by the Chancellor, and always answered. "I have never looked for any," replied a girl who is entirely self supporting. But five out of a possible 150 answers were in the affirmative, two said, "yes; others said, "a little" or "think so." In the majority of cases the answer was a plain emphatic "no," while some seemed to think a double negative would be more expressive and replied, "not in the least," "none whatever and "never."
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A Civic Center for Bucklin.
Bucklin, Kanaas, March 14.—The school house at Bucklin is being opened every Wednesday night for the discussion of social and civic center work among the citizens of the town. Magazines will be furnished and the discussion of public questions will be encouraged. A new high school building will be built this summer.
CHANCE FOR HUNTERS OF KANSAS FOSSILS
Missing Linkin Vascular Evolution Should Be Found in This State
"This University is great on finding Mesozoic fossils," said Dr. John Coulter, head botanist at Chicago University, in his lecture on "The Evolution of Vascular Plants," at Snow Hall yesterday. "It seems to me," he continued, "you ought to be able to find some valuable pocketets of fossil plants, out there, which would represent the one missing link in the chain of Vascular evolution."
Dr. Coulter made this statement after explaining in his lecture that the chain of evolution in the present higher forms of plant life would be complete if certain forms of fossil plants belonging to the Mesozoic age could be found. These fossils plant belong to the same plant family as our common club mosses, although they are much larger, sometimes being 200 feet tall.
"America has a wealth of fossil material in casts," said Dr. Coulter, "but as yet none have been found that can be sectioned and they are worthless to the botanist in solving the mystery in the evolutionary chain."
HOW THE OLD BOYS
USED TO DO THINGS
From the weekly Kansan March 12, 1898.
Professor Hopkins insists that none of his English Composition students chew gum when class is in session.
"Shorty" Hamill, in practice last Saturday, threw the hammer ninety-seven feet three inches. This was "Shorty's" first day for training for the field meet this spring and the throw beat the University record, held by himself, by five feet.
The following notice signed by Chancellor Snow, was posted on the door of the Law School recitation room: "On account of breakage of furniture by members of the senior law class, this room, number 8, will be closed until further orders, except when the dean of the Law School or some member of the law faculty is conducting a class exercise."
The rain interfered with several parties that had been planned to go to Eudora to hear the Glee club.
If any of the engineers were seen wandering inimelessly about the fields Thursday or Friday, they were neither surveying nor trying to kill time, but were on the lookout for birds to describe for the advanced English class.
MEN CHASE DOLLARS TO BUY LEARNING
H. E. Hoadley, of Fort Scott, a senior electrical, who has been out of school three weeks on account of malarial fever, is improving but will not be back in school for two weeks.
Total Amount Earned By University Men is Very
Large.
CLUBS AND LAUNDRIES HELP
Forty-two Boarding Houses Employ Many Students—Washeries and Paper Routes Good as Scholarship.
By STANLEY PINKERTON
Men of the University of Kansas who earn a part or all of their expenses during the school year make not less that a yearly total of forty thousand dollars. Very few students make all of their expenses while attending school, but a large number depend upon making enough to pay their board or room-ment, and many others intend to make only enough to keep their supply of "pin money" up to where it should be.
FIND WORK IN CLUBS.
The University employment bureau, under the direction of the University Y. M. C. M. A. secured work for seventy-five men during the first term of the present school year. Six hundred students reported to the Registrar last year that they were earning a part or all of their expenses while in school. These figures show that a very large percentage of the University men do work outside of their regular college duties.
The boarding clubs employ the largest number of the students who work. At present there are forty-two of these clubs employing from two to six students each, or an average of three. These act as stewards, watters and dish-washers, and get their training in cooking. They figured at four dollars per week, would amount to something near eighteen thousand dollars during the year.
The paper routes probably give employment to the next largest number of students. About twenty men carry the Tropea, Kanaka City, and St. Louis papers. The earnings of these students amount to about a thousand dollars during the school year.
LAUNDRY SCHOLARSHIPS.
About twelve students act as agents for the Lawrence and outside laundries, and earn a total of approximately two thousand dollars the year.
A large number of students are also employed in various other capacities, such as, clerking, typewriting, doing chores, singing and playing, tutoring, and day labor. The amount which these earn is very hard to deter, but a conservative estimate would be fifteen thousand dollars a year.
It may thus be seen, that while a large number of students earn no money while attending school, that there is also a considerable number who earn enough to materially decrease the monthly check from "dad."
DROPS OF SEALING- WAX ON HIS WINGS
Perhaps the Cedar wax-wing is Original of Icarus-Daedalus Myth.
Who knows the why of the red wax drops on the cedar bird's wings? Scientific investigators have been baffled by this simple appearing thing; just drops of sealing-wax-like substance on the secondary wing feathers of the cedar wax-wing. Perhaps it is solely for ornament, and not for sexual attraction as both male and female share alike the handsome decorations. The bright red spots show plainly against the silky grey-brown plumage of the birds.
If there is any one who wishes to try to solve the problem of these wax drops, let him be on the sharp lookout for the cedar bird. He is with us now—for a short time, and as his name indicates he will be found most often among the cedar or everygreen groves, from which he gets his daily food.
Two species visit us in winter. Bomby cilia cedorum, the cedar wax-wing is usually a visitor, while his larger and more handsome relative Bomby cilla, gauxulla, the Bohemian wax-wing, is a circumpolar bird, and is with us only when the winters are long and severe. He is well known in Northern Asia and is beloved by the Japanese artists who have many times paid his beauty tribute in their charming block prints.
WITH A TINY FORCEPS HE ROBS PINE CONES
The Crossbill, Campus Bird. Has Bill Specially Adapted to His Diet.
"Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are" is a truism that can be worked again and again in Natura's laws. Sternly does she inforce structural changes whenever a specialized diet is adopted by a bird, animal or plant.
The crossbill is represented in our state by three or four species. At this time of the year a sharp eyed observer may have chance to see the highly specialized birds, in the campus pines.
These birds are about the size of an English sparrow, but are built more shapey. The color and the peculiar bill of this bird can be observed in the "Birds of the Season" case, on the second floor of the Museum.
The crossbill is a noteworthy example of such a change, due to its peculiar feeding habit. This bird lives exclusively on the cones of the evergreen trees, and, to enable him to reach the fleshy creech seeds, Nature has admirably adapted the bird's bill. The bill is long and curved and the mandibles are crossed, like a pair of scissors. But it is no deformity, only a clover arrangement which greatly facilitates the feeding of the bird.
One bird may have its bill crossed' one way and another bird may have, its bill crossed the other way. The bill of the female may not always be different from that of the male.
DIRECT PRIMARY FOR ANNUAL Y. W. C. A. ELECTION
Meibers Will Express Their Preference by Voting in Boxes in Rest
Room Beginning This Week.
At the regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A. yesterday the committee on nominations was appointed. This committee will report at the meeting March 20, and on April 3 the annual election of officers will take place
A box will be placed in the Rest Room this week to receive suggestions for the four offices from the members. The committee will choose from this number. This committee consists of the following: Gale Gossett, chairman, Nadia Thomas, Isabel Thomas, Helen Burdick, Florence Fugua, Nell Martindale, Lucy March.
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