STUDENT EMPLOYMENT MUST DO TWO THINGS

The duty of giving to students jobs which will help them in later life was emphasized as one of the most important functions of the University Employment Office by Walker W. Daly '14, newly appointed Secretary for Student Employment, in an official statement to the CRIMSON yesterday.

Should Do Two Things, He Says

"The University Employment Office should do two things," said Mr. Daly. "First, help students earn their way through college by actually helping them to make dollars to meet their college expenses; and second, help them to do that sort of work which will be of value to them in after life. In other words, the employment office should work with the other departments of the University, both of administration and of instruction, in the development of the individual.

"The Student Employment Office should lead men to think along the lines that make for success in business. It should teach men to realize that the employer who puts men on his payroll does so because it will be a profitable thing for the business in which the man goes. It is going to give the business in some small way a greater opportunity to be of service to the community.

"The student who is going into part time work or a summer position with a business house should realize that his value to his employer, his advancement, in fact, his very future will be tremendously affected by the way in which he handles the apparently insignificant tasks which are given him.

"A great many men in some of the smaller colleges pay their way through college by such jobs as shoveling snow, tending furnaces, and the like. This sort of work, while answering the problem, does not answer it satisfactorily. A man who spends four years shoveling snow has in no wise developed himself, whereas a man who has done some constructive work has made the work that is putting him through college do a double service and actually prepare him for his work in after life.

"The Employment Office itself is one of the administrative offices of the University and should cooperate very closely with the other administrative offices, particularly with that of the Dean of the College. The director of student employment may conceivably function as an unofficial vocational adviser, and as such could give undergraduates a fairly definite idea of the channels into which they will direct their energies after Commencement."