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at Cornell in my own day. Here, however, there 

 was no promise to provide employment for unskilled 

 labor such as was at first made by Ezra Cornell. 

 But opportunities for earning money were frequent 

 from the first — gardening, chores, cooking, waiting 

 on table, general house service, carpentry, and 

 (more recently) the care and driving of automobiles. 



In the University itself, students — especially ad- Students 

 vanced ones — have been employed on an increasing ^-^ Mpers 

 scale as departmental assistants, cataloguers, ste- 

 nographers, typists, laboratory helpers, and the like, 

 an adjustment which is of great value not alone to 

 the workers, but also to the professors, whose time 

 it saves for more important things. There has also 

 been a certain amount of opportunity in private 

 tutoring, though this has never developed into a 

 system for lifting the "tender rich" over exami- 

 nations, a gross abuse in some Eastern institutions. 



Various college fraternities and sororities early Fratermty 

 established themselves at Stanford with my ap- '^^'^'^^" 



•' ^ houses 



proval. Ultimately upward of forty chapter houses 

 (subject to the general oversight applied to all 

 students) were erected on the Campus. These have 

 added much to the appearance of the residence 

 section and have constituted an important factor in 

 its social life, though not without some accompany- 

 ing problems of a serious nature. But as I have 

 already discussed the general fraternity question at 

 some length,! I here refrain from further allusion 

 to it. 



* See Chapter iii, page 60. 



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