Odd Ways Students Make Money

ODD WAYS STUDENTS MAKE MONEY

BUYING AND SELLING SECOND HAND LECTURES.

Ticket Agencies, Speculating in Football Tickets, Chartering Cars for Detroit, etc.

Some ingenious Ann Arbor students, says a correspondent of the Detroit Journal, have originated unique business schemes for paying their college expenses. For several days a notice has appeared on the students' bulletin board reading:

"Wanted - Typewritten lectures of Prof. Adams, courses III. and IV."

A list of other lectures "wanted" was written on the notice.

More than 20 old printed lectures of Prof. Adams alone were bought at a few cents by the writer of the notice, a junior. This junior is taking Prof. Adams courses this year. Prof. Adams is, moreover, a very popular lecturer, on somewhat abstract subjects in political economy. Between the students who bolt so many classes that they muss the abstract "points" of the course, and the conscientious students who want to preserve every word which Prof. Adams speaks, the shrewd junior has sold his 20 second-hand lectures at an average of $1 apiece. Newly typewritten they cost considerably more. The junior does a sort of second-hand business in lectures.

Second-hand ticket agencies are another money making scheme. Mileage books, especially by electric car to Detroit, are bought in considerable numbers. Out of them single trips are sold at 10 cents less than cash cost of a ticket at the railway office. The student scalper makes a handsome profit.

One of the shrewdest schemes of all was worked at the Chicago football game last Saturday. Walter Main, a Michigan student from Chicago, bought three reserved seat tickets for $2 apiece. Twenty dollars was offered for standing room after the police had shut the gates. Just before the crowd was refused admittance, Main sold two of his seats for $10 each. He returned from Chicago with $5 more than when he started.

Plans are being made by another student to charter a special car to Detroit, for all the big theatrical attractions of the year. This scheme was worked with success last year. "Students' laundry agencies" are worked to death. In the law department there are several expert stenographers who attend all the lectures which their time will permit. Their object is to "make life easy" for the hardworking laws. So much are their efforts appreciated that a good stenographer can almost pay his university expenses with his shorthand.