Yet several are able to pay half their way." A similar question put to a Vassar student brought the following response: "Why, yes, I know a girl who has a sign on the door of her room,--'Dresses pressed,'-- and she earns a good deal of money, too.

Of course, there are many wealthy girls here who are always having something like that done, and who are willing to pay well for it.

And so this girl makes a large sum of money, evenings and Saturdays.
"There are other girls who are agents for two of the great manufacturers of chocolate creams.
"The girl that plays the piano for the exercises in the gymnasium is paid for that, and some of the girls paint and make fancy articles, which they sell here, or send to the stores in New York, to be sold.
Some of them write for the newspapers and magazines, too, and still others have pupils in music, etc., in Poughkeepsie.

Yes, there are a great many girls who manage to pay most of their expenses." Typewriting, tutoring, assistance rendered in library or laboratory or office, furnish help to many a girl who wishes to help herself, in nearly every college.

Beside these standard employments, teaching in evening schools occasionally offers a good opportunity for steady eking out of means.
In many colleges there is opportunity for a girl with taste and cunning fingers to act as a dressmaker, repairer, and general refurnisher to students with generous allowances.