University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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EASE OF OBTAINING AN EDUCATION HE day has passed When students Who come to the University to earn all or part of their expenses as they go through their four years, find life difficult. Now there are usually more positions than there are men and women to fill them. The people of Eugene have come to depend on the University students for business aid more and more, and many college men and women find it an easy matter to earn all of their expenses on the campus, especially if supplemented by summer work. Some of them claim that a savings account under such conditions is not at all out of the question. The most gratifying thing about it is that the students Who thus work lose none of their social position, as is unfortunately the case in many colleges. It is here that Oregon democracy comes to the front. In fact, it is more often than not, the student Who works his way through Who is most active on the campus, Who receives most of the campus honors. Sixty per cent of the men in the University earn part of their ex- penses and nearly forty per cent are entirely self-supporting. For the women, the percentages are a bit lower. The men have found a Wide variety of occupations to suit their special talents, their work ranging from repairing automobiles to presiding in pulpits on Sundays. The list i of their occupations is startling in its length. In addition to the more usual tasks, such as stenography and janitor work, may be mentioned the selling of various articles on commission, posing, surveying, playing in orchestras, tuning pianos, and even undertaking. The womenis work offers as many opportunities as the menis, for we find women, reporters, doctorsi assistants, bill collectors, department assistants, managers for plays, etc. It is certain that these men and women receive more from their work than the financial assistance alone, for their positions serve as a means of keeping them in close touch With the big World of hard actual- ities which the average student is only too prone to forget. Twenty-one

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