THE ANNUAL REPORT
of the Committee on
UNDERGRADUATE ACTIVITIES
of the
GRADUATE COUNCIL
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LIBRARY OF PRINCETON UNIYERSITY
Presented by
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COM- MITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE ACTIVITIES OF THE GRAD- UATE COUNCIL
Your Committee has held three meetings during the past year, and has kept in touch with affairs at Princeton.
Mr. Buxton, Secretary of the Bureau of Students' Self Help, has been continued, and the statement of his work, during the year, is included in this report.
Owing to the established position, which the Bureau of Students' Self Help, quickly ob- tained at the University, it has been deemed wise to turn this work over to the University as a permanent function of the administrative affairs of Princeton.
At a meeting of the Committee held Octo- ber 6th, it was decided to take this action, and after consulting with President Hibben, the work was placed under the supervision of Mr.
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Wintringer, the Secretary of the Business Ad- ministration of the University.
BeHeving that the work of the Graduate Council does not extend to the administering of any function of the University, the action of your Committee seems to have been the only logical step to take, and while at the mo- ment this cuts off your Committee from any established work, we are sure that other fields of activity will develop from time to time.
THE SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU
OF STUDENT SELF HELP OF PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY
This Department closed its second year of work when the University adjourned last June, and we submit the following as a short and concise report of that year's work.
The Secretary kept in touch with the office one day each week during the summer, an- swering such letters as were received, mostly from prospective students who desired infor- mation as to self support after they should have entered the University.
On September 22, 191 3 the office was for- mally opened for the academic year, and the
Secretary spent two weeks at the office regis- tering new men, and the men who were regis- tered the previous years.
We had during the year 169 men enrolled with the Department. They were distributed in the different classes as follows:
Freshmen "j^ Juniors 24
Sophomore 61 Seniors 8
The financial condition of the men registered was very much the same as that in our last report, as the following table will show. The men, on arriving at Princeton, had the follow- ing funds :
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6 men had |
nothing |
2 |
men had |
$125. |
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I |
$18. |
3 |
(( |
130. |
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I |
20. |
I |
a |
135. |
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2 |
30. |
2 |
n |
140. |
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2 |
40. |
II |
(( |
150. |
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5 |
50. |
I |
f( |
160. |
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I |
60. |
I |
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165. |
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4 |
75. |
2 |
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170. |
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85. |
2 |
(( |
175. |
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2 |
90. |
15 |
(( |
200. |
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9 |
100. |
The balance of the men had more than $200.
The work of all men receiving assistance was followed up as in the previous year, and our records show that practically all the men assigned to work performed the same to the satisfaction of the employer. As in the pre- vious year, most of the men who received as- sistance were from the Sophomore and Fresh- man classes, although as the foregoing table shows there were some men working through this Department from both the Senior and Junior classes.
The variety of the labor in which men were employed is very interesting. It covers almost every available line of work. We will men- tion first the well-known lines of college em- ployment, such as newspaper reporting, tutoring, acting as monitors in classrooms and chapel, students' pressing club, students' ex- press and the many selling agencies for all manner of articles. Then we placed men in such jobs as taking care of furnaces, shovel- ling snow, washing windows, cutting grass, gardening, potting plants in the fall, teaching boys to skate. We were called upon to sup- ply men to stay in homes at night while the whole family was out, handling the traps at the
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gun club, waiting on tables, inventorying household goods, delivering invitations. Two men were delivering newspapers and maga- zines; distributing samples for several ciga- rette firms, selling programs for the Triangle Club and the football and baseball games, ushers and gatemen at the 'Varsity Field, cata- logue work in the Library, wheeling an in- valid's chair, selling chocolate and sandwiches on the campus at night, taking care of tennis courts, and nine very competent stenographers obtained more or less employment and many students obtained work on the farm.
The Secretary devoted the same amount of time to the work as previously, being in his office for two entire days each week, and in his rooms in West College certain evenings from 7.30 to 9.00, thus making it possible for any student to reach him at some time during five days each week.
We are pleased to report that the total amount of money which passed into the hands of the students through the work of this of- fice shows a slight increase over the amount for the previous year. The figure for 1912-13 being $20,161.50 as against $17,560.63 in 191 1-
12. We can again report that not one student was forced to discontinue his work at the University through lack of funds.
The work at the Athletic Field was again handled by the men from this Department, they taking entire charge of the entrance gates, ushering, programs, etc., to the entire satisfaction of the athletic authorities. This again resulted in the students being enabled to attend all events at the field, even those who could not aiford to pay for their admission.
All business matters on the campus which the students controlled in the past have been continued, such as the Clothes Pressing estab- lishment. Students' Express and all agencies. There was established during the year one new and important business feature, a Stu- dents' Shoe-Shining Parlor. In February last two students, selected by the Secretary, fitted up a room in the basement of the old office building which we secured through the hearty cooperation of the Secretary of the Business Administration. This room was supplied with six chairs and three Greeks were employed as shoe shiners. The two students are responsi- ble for the management and superintendence
of the establishment. Since the opening of the present year we have added a sophomore to the staff, so now one member of each of the three upper classes shares in the management and profits. They have sold since college opened over six hundred season tickets to stu- dents. The rates are $2.00 for one term, or $4.00 for the year, entitling the purchaser to unlimited shines during the life of his mem- bership.
We also succeeded last spring in obtaining permission from the Athletic Association authorities to open a booth inside of the Athletic Field for the sale of peanuts, apples, chocolates, etc. This has developed into a very successful adventure, the receipts ranging from $30 to $50 on days of the games.
There was also organized a "delivery" busi- ness, a system being devised whereby two stu- dents deliver the monthly statements of most of the large business houses in Princeton, in- cluding the student bills from the University Store. They make this delivery for ic per bill, thereby saving the merchants 50 per cent of the usual charge for mailing. They collecet all these statements the same day, and after
routing them, the delivery is rapid and ac- curate. This business has also embraced the distribution of all sample goods that are from time to time sent around the campus to be de- livered throughout the Dormitories, and ad- vertisements in the shape of fancy blotters and such matters.
The University Farm has completed its sec- ond year, and reports progress. The Commit- tee decided during last winter that the ultimate success of the farm depended upon its being absolutely self-sustaining. So during the past season we put many acres in red clover and cow peas, to be turned under. This neces- sarily cut down, for the time, the number of students we could use on the farm, as such land as was used in this manner needed no cultivation after the planting of the crop. We also secured the most improved farm equip- ment and for these reasons we could employ only six men during the past summer. Next year we hope to employ ten or twelve, and finally fifteen or more by the time we have brought the entire farm land up to its highest efficiency.
Through a friend of the University, who
desires to remain unknown, we are enabled to offer five prizes aggregating $300 to the five students who produced the best results from one-half acre of land, which was assigned to each one. The University plowed and ferti- lized this ground and provided the student with whatever seed and tools he wished to use. From this on the student did the entire work on his special plot at such time as he could be spared from the general farm work. A great deal of this work was done early in the morn- ing from five to seven o'clock. The five prizes were won by the following men:
1st prize Paul McCready '16 2nd " Alexander Dodd '15 3rd " Samuel Rosenberg '15 4th " D. H. Williams '15 5th " L. A. Hillyer '14 The undergraduate body has throughout the past year shown loyal cooperation in the work of this Department, and in all the branches and organizations of undergraduate life they unhesitatingly express their enthusiastic belief in the value of this work to the present day University life. The Committee feel that this Department has, at the close of its second
year, more than ever demonstrated its useful- ness and value to the University.
James E. Bathgate, Jr.,
Chairman. Committee :
Jas. E. Bathgate, Jr., '94 P. A. Rollins '89 John Larkin '82 G. C. Eraser '93 W. W. Phillips '95 A. C. Smith, Jr., '03 H. L. Mills '04 A. C. Studer, Jr., '08 W. M. WiLKiNs '10 Jas. N. Ewing '12