Report of the committee on undergraduate activities of the graduate council of Princeton University.

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 :

6 men had

nothing

2

men had

$125.

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$18.

3

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130.

I

20.

I

a

135.

2

30.

2

n

140.

2

40.

II

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150.

5

50.

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160.

I

60.

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165.

4

75.

2

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170.

I

85.

2

((

175.

2

90.

15

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200.

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