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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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FACTS I OK I RKSH.MI V 25 1 >ys who come for the first time to country places like Champaign and Urbana do not at first realize how many men there are who are trying to earn a H a r d e s t for living, and how difficult it sometimes is for New Men a new man at once to find something to do. Students who have been in college the previous year have wisely picked up all the best jobs before going home, so that little is left for the newcomer except the discard—that is waiting table, washing dishes or tending furnaces. T h e skilled laborer always gets more for his service than the one who can do nothing more than ordinarily v. 11. A student who can do no special work must Skill a take what he can get, and will receive for Help his services only the payment which is given the common laborer, that is commonly twenty or twenty-five cents an hour. One who has learned a trade will very rapidly find employment on Saturdays, and for his odd hours. Those with special talents may earn their living more easily than others not so endowed. People who sing, or who play a musical instrument w 11. draftsmen, chauffeurs, barbers, bookki pers, stenographers and any with special training are much better fitted to help themselves than are those without such training. The boy who intends to take upon himself the burd< of earning his living while in college should be mature— and by that T mean usually nineteen or Special twenty years of a g e The burden is t 0 Qualities great for the young boy to sunie. He Necessary should have a good physique, for he will often be forced to keep irregular hour either to bring up his colleg< work, or to do his outside worl He ill get into difficulty if he slights either. The hoy who works f r hi living will have to give more conscious alien tion t his clothing than other fellows, because he is n t likch to ha 1 new suit often; he must look neat, and yet his worl 4 pretty MII to be ha I on his clothing, No must keep h cl * in i I mdition, therefon or lie will so n come I
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