,,college ,,men ,,without ,,money ,,edited ,,by ,c4 ,b4 ,,riddle ,illustration ,,new ,,york ,,thomas ,y4 ,,crowell ,,company ,,publishers ,,copyright1 #aiad ,,by ,,thomas ,y4 ,,crowell ,,company ,published ,june1 #aiad ,,contents ,,part ,i ,,page ,a ,,mother',s ,,desire ,,realized--,,ames #a 8,,magna ,,cum ,,laude0--,,aspinall #e ,,task ,,worth ,,while--,,clark #h ,,making ,,odd ,,hours ,,pay--,,day #ab ,,the ,,college ,,store--,,dodge #ae ,,brother ,,helps ,,brother--,,draper #ai ,,the ,,college ,,inspiration--,,dyer #bd ,,overcoming ,,hardships--,,frazier #bi ,,the ,,dignity ,,of ,,service--,,fox #ce ,a ,,happy ,,misfortune--,,french #db ,,finding ,,one',s ,,place--,,gernert #dg 8,,the ,,tarheel0--,,gunter #di ,,no ,,work ,,too ,,hard--,,halfaker #ec ,,cultivating ,,side ,,lines--,,heller #fj ,a ,,smiling ,,self-,,reliance--,,hughes #fe ,a ,,mother',s ,,influence--,,kendall #fg ,,riches ,,more ,,of ,a ,,handicap ,,than ,,poverty--,,lawrence #ge ,,the ,,will ,,and ,,the ,,way--,,mccuskey #gi ,,keep ,,good ,,company--,,mcleod #hb ,,the ,,democracy ,,of ,a ,,college--,,moon #hc ,,obeying ,,the ,,call--,,morgan #hh ,,determination ,,and ,,steadfastness ,,wins--,,mosley #ia ,,making ,,oneself ,,useful--,,nelson #if ,a ,,faith 8,,divinely ,,simple0--,,nicks #aab ,,one ,,who ,,knows ,,it ,,can ,,be ,,done #aae ,,difficulty ,,and ,,willingness ,,are ,,enemies--,,rowland #abj ,,faithful ,,in ,,little ,,things--,,saunders #abf ,,from ,,janitor ,,to ,,college ,,president--,,staley #acd ,,starting ,,with ,,five ,,dollars #ach ,,from ,,good ,,to ,,better--,,swain #adb ,a ,,task ,,with ,a ,,moral--,,traynor #adf ,,from ,,the ,,university ,,of ,,denver ,,bulletin #aea ,,the ,,fraternity ,,of ,,workers--,,van ,,ruschen #aeg ,,how ,,the ,,physical ,,side ,,helped--,,wade #afb ,,the ,,way ,,always ,,open--,,walters #afg ,,the ,,victory ,,that ,,overcometh ,,the ,,world--,,watkins #aga ,,opportunities ,,make ,,us ,,known--,,wentzel #agg ,,making ,,play ,,out ,,of ,,work--,,wiggins #ahe ,,nothing ,,succeeds ,,like ,,success--,,wright #ahi ,,work ,a ,,stimulus ,,to ,,ambition #aid ,,the ,,university ,,as ,a ,,goal #bjj ,,part ,,ii ,,working ,,to ,,make ,,himself ,a ,,more ,,useful ,,man--,,bassford #bje ,,many ,,lanes ,,of ,,usefulness--,,boswell #bjh ,,another ,,example ,,of ,,the ,,willing ,,heart--,,daft #bab ,,difficulties ,,prepare ,,for ,,real ,,work--,,frye #bae ,,pluck ,,rather ,,than ,,luck--,,henry #bba ,,poverty ,,is ,,not ,,his ,,master--,,johnson #bbe ,,defeat ,,does ,,not ,,mean ,,failure--,,johnson #bbh 8,,start ,,right0--,,johnson #bcj ,,the ,,real ,,question--,,jorgenson #bcc ,,willingness ,,to ,,work ,a ,,great ,,asset--,,moore #bci ,,keep ,,on ,,trying--,,omahart #bdb ,,optimism ,,is ,,an ,,asset--,,oxley #bde ,,the ,,desire ,,for ,,something ,,better--,,patrick #bdi ,,determination ,,versus ,,poverty--,,porter #beb ,,the ,,real ,,needs ,,of ,,the ,,world--,,rankin #bee ,,the ,,one ,,who ,,succeeds ,,is ,,the ,,one ,,who ,,tries--,,scurr #beg ,,the ,,help ,,yourself ,,club--,,sellars #bfa ,,the ,,how ,,and ,,why--,,shinn #bfc ,,making ,,use ,,of ,,every ,,opportunity--,,smith #bff ,,education ,,worth ,,the ,,price--,,west #bgc ,,work ,,no ,,class ,,barrier--,,wright #bhj ,,part ,,iii ,,how ,,to ,,work ,,one',s ,,way ,,through ,,college--,,brown #bhc ,,does ,a ,,college ,,education ,,pay8 #bhf ,,preface ,having entered the preparatory schools with #id cents1 and college with less1 and knowing that the greater number of those who control the affairs of the nation and who strive to make the country better1 are men and women who did likewise1 the thought for this book entered my mind4 ,the first aim was to collect matter from students only1 but this was changed4 ,the main part of the book contains articles from college and university graduates4 ,the last part of the book contains contributions from students now in college1 and shows how the actual thing of working one's way through college or university is being done4 ,a few of the articles which go to make this volume were used as a special series in the ,raleigh ,times1 ,raleigh1 ,north ,carolina1 and requests from various parts of the country were received by the compiler for the production of the series4 ,the object of the compiler is not to praise the merits of those who have succeeded1 but to point a moral to young men and women who desire an education and have small means4 ,a prominent editor says3 8,the history of college education among ,english speaking people is now about one thousand years old4 ,it began with the ,university of ,oxford in ,england1 which has been in existence a decade of centuries4 ,it has spread to many lands1 but in all lands it has been about the same to the poor boy4 ,it can be truly said that he has never seen an age or a country or a college where he had an easy time in getting his diploma4 ,it has always been a fearful struggle for him1 and it will doubtless continue to be4 ,but it is also true that the brightest pages1 the very brightest1 in all our long educational history are those that record the triumphs of the poor boy4 ,and his triumphs are written throughout that great period4 ,he has demonstrated a thousand times over that #8where there is a will there is a way1' that #8poverty does not chain one to the soil4'0 ,so1 my efforts have been to help rather than to praise1 to make the past a great light for the future1 and to pave the way for more college men not blessed with wealth4 ,if this volume serves to aid one in these directions ,i shall be glad4 ,to ,professor ,w4 ,p4 ,lawrence1 ,professor ,e4 ,e4 ,randolph1 ,professor ,r4 ,a4 ,campbell and ,president ,w4 ,a4 ,harper1 of the ,elon ,college ,faculty1 the compiler is greatly indebted for their faithful service in the preparation of this work2 also to many others who offered suggestions and advice4 ,c4 ,b4 ,,riddle4 ,elon ,college1 ,n4 ,c4 ,march #af1 #aiad4 ,,part ,i ,a ,,mother',s ,,desire ,,realized ,,forrest ,b4 ,,ames1 ,b4,a4 ,before the close of my high school course ,i faced two proposals1 acceptance of one of which would cause me to go to college2 the other would set me to work4 ,the first was this3 provided ,i would live at home in ,bangor and go back and forth daily to the ,university of ,maine in ,orono 7a ride of about fifty minutes on the electric car7 ,i was offered about half of the expenses of my entire college course4 ,the second was--work4 ,thanks to my mother's influence and the fact that ,i wanted a college education1 ,i had no hesitation in accepting the first proposal4 ,thus ,i came to belong1 not to a class of 8college men with no money10 but rather to that of 8college men with little money40 ,the essential difference is one of degree only1 provided there is present a true determination to secure a college education4 ,why did ,i go to college8 ,to a great extent because of my mother's influence2 because of her who could not conceive of her sons as non-college men4 ,she thus constantly encouraged us to go to college regardless of whether we had to earn all or part of our way4 ,in addition to this ever-present influence ,i was a somewhat imaginative and philosophical lad4 ,it seemed to me that just as a hill was made not merely for climbing1 but that the climber should be rewarded for his attempt by the beautiful view of broader countries seen from the summit2 even so a college education was designed1 not to be a stumbling block to the youth of our country1 but rather to serve as a means of intellectual elevation from which should open up visions of greater things in life4 ,these two things made me become a 8college man with little money10 who was ready to do any honest work to make up the financial deficiency4 ,how did ,i earn my way through college8 ,in an account book1 which ,i have preserved for many years1 ,i find this statement1 written when ,i was a sophomore in high school3 8,school closed 7for the summer vacation7 ,friday4 ,on ,saturday ,i helped ,roy cut grass and received twenty-five cents4 ,from that regular employment followed and ,i earned and spent money as follows30 ,there follows1 then1 a record of fifteen cents from someone for cutting grass1 or fifty cents from another for a bit of carpenter work such as a boy could do4 ,very consistently during the remainder of my high school course ,i worked1 caring for lawns and gardens in the summer1 and running one furnace and sometimes two and shoveling snow in the winter4 ,i also pumped a church organ4 ,by these means ,i earned and saved #bjj4jj in the two years before ,i was ready to go to college4 ,this sum ,i placed in the bank4 ,for two years of my college course ,i lived at home and went to and from the ,university each day4 ,to earn money ,i tended a furnace and shoveled snow1 pumped a church organ1 and occasionally sold tickets at various entertainments in the ,bangor ,city ,hall4 ,in the fall of the sophomore year ,i won a first prize of fifteen dollars in the annual sophomore declamations4 ,during the summer between my first and second years in college ,i worked as an amateur landscape gardener1 caring for lawns and gardens and doing odd jobs of all kinds4 ,for the greater part of the summer following the second year ,i worked as a carpenter4 ,i also tried the work of book agent1 but made little headway at that4 ,beginning with my junior year at college my plans were considerably changed4 ,no longer did ,i travel to and from college daily1 but1 thanks to the generosity of a friend1 ,i was permitted to live at the fraternity which ,i had joined in my freshman year4 ,thus ,i was given an opportunity to enter into the larger life and activity of the ,university1 and so to share some of the college honors and profit by them4 ,but still there was the necessity of earning money4 ,i still lacked many dollars1 even many hundred dollars1 necessary to secure my college education4 ,during that junior year ,i worked at every opportunity and earned money by selling tickets at various places1 giving readings at a church entertainment1 winning another first prize in the junior declamations1 taking school census in my home ward in ,bangor1 and by doing odd jobs whenever any presented themselves4 ,during the summer ,i secured work at a seashore resort and because of the somewhat isolated nature of the place saved nearly all my earnings4 ,in amount of money earned in all ways1 my senior year was the best of my entire college course4 ,during the ,christmas recess ,i worked as floor-walker in a store1 and during the spring vacation again took school census1 this time in a larger ward which returned me more money4 ,i won fifty dollars in an intercollegiate speaking contest1 and earned nearly sixty-five dollars as substitute teacher in ,bangor high school4 ,these amounts1 combined with my previous savings1 or what was left of them1 and an advance from the same friend1 enabled me to graduate from the ,university of ,maine in #aiac with all bills paid1 but burdened with a great debt of gratitude that ,i can never properly pay4 ,as ,i look back over my college course1 ,i feel that it was worth all the work that ,i was obliged to do4 ,orono1 ,maine4 8,,magna ,,cum ,,laude0 ,,rev4 ,,richard ,,aspinall1 ,b4,a41 ,m4,a41 ,b4,d4 ,at the age of twenty-five ,i went to ,west ,virginia ,wesleyan ,college with a fairly large amount of worldly experience1 very little book learning1 and enough money to take me through two terms of school4 ,i was preparing myself for the ministry of the ,methodist ,episcopal ,church1 and was willing to preach my way through school4 ,i did not know anyone in the school1 nor did ,i have any definite promise that ,i would get a charge near the ,college4 ,incidentally1 ,i might say that ,i had been in this country only eighteen months at that time4 ,i landed in ,new ,york with only six dollars1 plus the amount that the immigration authorities require each one to have upon landing on these shores4 ,i did not know a man from ,maine to ,california4 ,after consultation with the ,dean ,i found that ,i needed one year to complete the college entrance requirements4 ,during the next summer ,i made enough money to pay my few debts2 so ,i returned to the college square with the world4 ,a few weeks after school opened1 ,i went to our conference and was assigned to a circuit in close proximity to the ,college1 which paid me #cfj for the year4 ,there were six appointments on the circuit2 each congregation wanted me to hold a protracted meeting and ,i had to hire a horse every ,sunday1 for the average distance for me to travel was twenty miles a ,sunday4 ,there was no opportunity to make any extra money1 for ,i held protracted meetings in the vacations and had to do extra pastoral work in the summer1 which1 of course1 had been sadly neglected during the school year4 ,it need hardly be said that there were many trying times4 ,i had much practical experience in a system of bookkeeping2 but1 somehow1 and at very irregular intervals1 the bills were all paid at the end of the year4 ,i was returned a second year4 ,the salary was increased #ej4jj1 and for a time ,i was passing rich4 ,but troubles were plentiful1 sometimes4 ,i was going out on a mission of good cheer1 riding thirty miles on ,sunday--it may be in sleet and snow1 and the steward had been able to collect only #c4ba1 when ,i needed much more than that to pay my board bills4 ,then when ,i could succeed in casting these gloomy thoughts from my mind1 in would rush the inspiring thoughts of my ,latin1 ,greek1 ,hebrew and ,math41 all fighting for first consideration4 ,notwithstanding1 given good health1 one can get through4 ,it has been done and can be done again1 is part of my philosophy4 ,the last two years saw me on another charge1 paying much more money1 but a much more difficult field1 mentally4 ,i was able to graduate1 free from debt1 though ,i had seldom been so during the whole five years4 ,i feel as though ,i have a right to say that ,i did not slight my work1 for ,i was graduated 8,magna cum ,laude0 and took a few other honors besides4 ,taken collectively1 the grind of lessons1 the worries of a circuit together with shortage of money are not always conducive to optimism1 but ,i felt like ,i had to get through4 ,the same zest ,i had then for learning is still with me4 ,i may say that ,i have no more money than ,i had when in college1 but as much ambition4 ,madison1 ,n4 ,j4 ,,task ,,worth ,,while ,,thomas ,,arkle ,,clark1 ,b4,l41 ,,dean ,,of ,,men1 ,,university ,,of ,,illinois ,i worked my way through college from necessity--,i had to do so1 or to give up the idea of having a college education at all4 ,i had no ideas then concerning the great advantages of such a course4 ,when ,i was a little boy my father had formed the plan of sending me to college when ,i should have reached the proper age1 but he died when ,i was scarcely fifteen years old1 and my hope of ever securing a college education vanished4 ,seven years later1 when ,i was twenty-two1 a chance experience renewed within me the desire to go to college1 and ,i laid my plans accordingly4 ,i had little money1 though ,i had been teaching school two years and had also been farming for myself4 ,it seemed to me then1 and ,i feel it much more strongly now that ,i have had an experience with hundreds of other students in a similar situation1 that it would be better to delay beginning my college course until ,i had saved enough money to give me a good start4 ,this ,i did1 farming another year and spending an additional winter in teaching a country school4 ,when ,i was ready to enter college ,i had money1 which ,i had myself earned1 more than sufficient to pay all of my college expenses for two years4 ,i had not been in college long before ,i saw that the fellow with no special talent or training is very much handicapped in earning his living4 ,such a man must take what work he can get1 and must usually work at a minimum wage4 ,often1 too1 the only work which he can get is mere drudgery4 ,the man who can sing or can play a musical instrument well1 the man with a trade1 or a particular fitness for any special sort of work1 can earn his living more quickly and more pleasantly than can the man who must confine himself to unskilled labor4 ,soon after ,i entered college a chance came to me to become an apprentice in the office of the college paper and to learn to be a printer4 ,i did not need to earn money during my first year1 so ,i entered the printing office1 and gave myself to learning to set type4 ,i worked at the trade industriously during my leisure moments1 the fellows in the office were quite willing to instruct me1 and at the end of a year ,i had become so proficient that ,i was employed as a regular type-setter4 ,in this way ,i earned satisfactory wages during the rest of my college course4 ,my connection with the college paper gave me an interest in newspaper work in general1 and ,i soon had an opportunity to do reporting for one of the city daily papers published in the college town4 ,for this work ,i was paid a definite amount a column1 with an understanding that the total amount of news which ,i should furnish each week should not exceed a set number of columns4 ,these two sources of revenue1 together with small amounts which ,i was able to earn proved quite sufficient to furnish me enough money to meet my regular college expenses4 ,they gave me1 also1 more pleasure than ,i should have been able to obtain had ,i been forced to earn my living by means of unskilled toil4 ,my summer vacations ,i employed on the farm4 ,i had many rosy opportunities presented to me by solicitors who came to the ,university to earn possibly fabulous sums of money during the vacation by retailing their wares1 but ,i preferred to work on the farm for two reasons3 such work offered me a definite sum for my summer's work1 small though it might be1 and ,i was in such a position that ,i felt that ,i should know what ,i could rely on4 ,it gave me in addition three months strenuous exercise in the open air1 and thus prepared me for the months of hard study that came through the college year4 ,as ,i look back now at the manner in which ,i earned my way through college1 it seems to me in the light of the many years of experience which ,i have had since1 a very good way4 ,as ,i have watched the hundreds of self-supporting students at the ,university of ,illinois1 ,i am led to the conclusion that it is seldom a good plan to start upon a college course without money1 even if one has to postpone going until that is earned4 ,unskilled labor is unprofitable1 and anyone who would succeed must have or must develop skill or training in some special work4 ,lastly1 it seems to me that the average man will find it very much better to employ his vacations in work that will bring him a definite and assured income1 even though that be small1 than to risk earning ten times as much1 as a book agent1 for example1 where he is quite likely to fail4 ,urbana1 ,ill4 ,,making ,,odd ,,hours ,,pay ,,rev4 ,,jonathan ,c4 ,,day1 ,a4,b41 ,d4,d4 ,i was born in ,harlan ,county1 ,kentucky1 which is one of the remote southeastern mountain counties of that ,state1 on the twentieth of ,december1 #ahgg4 ,i was one of eight boys4 ,after my mother died my father married a second time4 ,he had six boys and two daughters by his second marriage4 ,we lived on a rough mountain farm4 ,our income was meager and our educational and cultural advantages even more meager4 ,our public schools were of the poorest kind and lasted only three months in the year4 ,we did not attend them even consecutively through these three months4 ,i always was ambitious1 however1 after ,i had learned to read1 to get what ,i could from school1 and from books4 ,my mother died when ,i was fourteen years of age4 ,it was about this time that ,i began to try to attend public schools regularly although ours were poor4 ,at the age of seventeen ,i had my first five consecutive months of school4 ,this gave me a taste for more knowledge1 since here we were studying geography and history and those branches which gave us some knowledge of a larger world than we mountain boys knew4 ,at eighteen ,i entered the ,presbyterian ,school at ,harlan ,town4 ,i graduated from this little academy when ,i was twenty4 ,all of this time ,i had taken great delight in working odd hours outside of school and on ,saturdays and holidays1 to pay my way4 ,by this time ,i found it possible to teach in the country schools4 ,this ,i did two terms4 ,there was finally an opening at college where ,i had a chance to pay my way by taking care of the fires1 milking cows1 running errands1 etc41 for a gentleman who lived near the college and who had to be away from home most of the time4 ,i entered ,tusculum ,college at ,greeneville1 ,tenn41 in ,september1 #ahig4 ,i worked for ,mr4 ,l4 ,l4 ,lawrence1 an attorney1 who lived near the college campus4 ,my work was not very hard1 but took a great many hours each day4 ,by diligent application to my studies ,i found it possible to make up the branches in which ,i was deficient in the preparatory department1 and to graduate with my ,bachelor's degree on the #ast of ,june1 #aija4 ,having to do the manual labor that ,i did and at regular hours1 established in me regular habits1 both in meeting engagements and in preparation for classes1 which ,i have found in later life invaluable4 ,as ,i look back over my experience in college1 ,i cannot remember the time when ,i was not perfectly delighted with the opportunity of work and study1 even though ,i went many weeks destitute of 8spending money40 ,after ,i had finished college ,i entered upon a course of theological study which ,i pursued for four years graduating from ,mc,cormick ,seminary in the spring of #aijg4 ,meantime1 however1 ,i gave two years to teaching and to the work of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 as student secretary in ,tennessee4 ,this ,i found necessary in order to earn money to purchase books and carry on my courses of study without running too heavily in debt4 ,since ,i have been regularly in the ministry1 ,i have many times given thanks for the ,providence that made it necessary for me to get what little ,i did get in the way of education through this long course of labor1 manual and mental4 ,many encouragements came along the way4 ,there were many kind friends who1 without my solicitation1 have helped me at various times4 ,i believe that the man who tries will always find much encouragement4 ,new ,york ,city4 ,,the ,,college ,,store ,,professor ,w4 ,i4 ,,dodge1 ,b4,s4,a4 ,by way of introduction1 ,i will say that when ,i was in school ,i never had any inclination whatever to attend a higher institution of learning4 ,but upon graduation from the ninth grade ,i was influenced to attend the academy4 ,i was at that time living in ,st4 ,johnsbury1 ,vermont4 ,i attended the academy there two years1 and then finished my preparatory course at ,vermont ,academy1 ,saxton's ,river1 ,vermont4 ,as time drew near for graduation there1 ,i finally became quite interested in agriculture and ,i decided to enter the ,agricultural ,department of the ,university of ,vermont at ,burlington4 ,the next question was1 8,how am ,i to bear the expense80 ,my father was perfectly willing to help me and desirous of helping me through1 but he was financially unable to send me through on his own resources4 ,since ,i was desirous of learning1 ,i agreed to find some method of helping him out4 ,it was finally decided that ,i should enter that fall 7#aijh7 and my application was sent and accepted4 ,my father1 who aided me to the extent of #ej the first year1 went to ,burlington a short while before ,college was to open and held an interview with ,professor ,j4 ,s4 ,hills1 the ,dean of the ,agricultural ,department4 ,it ended in my securing the work of 8sampler0 at the ,experimental ,farm4 ,the work included getting up at five o'clock every morning and going out to the barn and 8sampling0 and 8weighing0 the milk from fifty odd cows4 ,there were two of us that did this work4 ,when there was nothing ahead we would help in the milking4 ,this required about two hours in the morning4 ,at five o'clock in the afternoon the same work had to be done4 ,if any of the readers have ever done this kind of work they can well appreciate my circumstances4 ,for remuneration1 ,i received fifteen cents an hour and was able to earn an average of twelve dollars a month1 from which ,i paid my board4 ,this consisted of one meal in a boarding house and two in my room4 ,although the work was rather undesirable in many respects1 ,i have1 nevertheless1 many times thanked fortune for it4 ,on ,saturdays1 ,i had a job emptying ashes and carrying coal for a woman down town1 and in the winter ,i kept her roof and walks clean4 ,in this way ,i picked up a neat sum4 ,i did this work all the first year of college4 ,during the summer ,i was very fortunate in securing a position at the ,experiment ,station under ,professor ,washburn 7the head of the ,dairy ,division7 for #dj a month1 working nine hours a day4 ,along with this ,i kept my work at the farm so ,i managed to get #ee or more a month4 ,most of this ,i saved to help me in my sophomore year4 ,when the three months' summer vacation was over1 ,i still retained my work at the farm and kept it during the whole year4 ,my father occasionally sent me a little money1 and ,i got along as well as ,i could4 ,during my sophomore year my uncle died and left me a small sum of money1 but ,i used only #ej of it during my sophomore year4 ,during my summer recess in that year ,i again worked for ,professor ,washburn on his books and experiment work4 ,i received the immense wage of #de a month1 and still worked at the ,farm1 so ,i managed to obtain about #fj per month4 ,i worked the whole three months1 and then ,i decided to change my work4 ,i went to see the student owner of the 8,college ,store10 ,mr4 ,i4 ,h4 ,rosenberg1 and obtained the work of clerk in the store at the salary of four dollars a week4 ,i worked the whole year for that and it more than paid my board4 ,the #abe saved during the summer paid my necessary bills4 ,then ,i received #ajj more from my uncle's estate4 ,in ,june ,i decided to buy the 8,college ,store10 as it was for sale1 but how was ,i to pay #gbi when ,i didn't have it8 ,i wrote to a relative of mine in regard to the money1 but he would not lend me the money without a note signed by myself1 father and grandfather for security4 ,i thought there must be another way to obtain it1 so ,i went down town and conferred with ,mr4 ,g4 ,d4 ,jarvis1 a merchant in the city4 ,he had known me for two years1 and had taken a strong interest in me1 and after knowing my circumstances he told me he would lend me the money4 ,of course1 ,i had no property to give as security2 but ,mr4 ,jarvis knew me and took my note as security for the money wanted4 ,i paid #fjj down for the store and gave a note for the balance1 the first of ,june4 ,so ,i became owner of the 8,college ,store0 for my senior year4 ,during the summer ,i went to ,nova ,scotia and worked in a creamery in ,brookfield1 doing the helper's work4 ,i wanted to learn creamery work and ,i thought that was my opportunity2 so ,i took it4 ,i received #ab a month and board4 ,i came back to college no richer financially1 but richer in knowledge4 ,i opened my store at the opening of school1 and ,i earned enough to pay my expenses through my last year4 ,i sold it in the spring to another student and paid ,mr4 ,jarvis4 ,i graduated in the class of #aiab1 the first class graduated by ,president ,guy ,potter ,benton1 now of the ,university4 ,i received the degree of ,bachelor of ,science in ,agriculture4 ,in ,june of my senior year ,i secured the position of teacher of ,agriculture and the ,sciences in one of the ,vermont schools4 ,i am still there1 and enjoy my work very much4 ,morrisville1 ,vermont4 ,,brother ,,helps ,,brother ,,henry ,f4 ,,draper1 ,b4,a4 ,when ,i graduated from the high school of ,oswego1 ,kansas1 in #ahif at the age of seventeen1 ,i had the ambition to attend college1 the ,university of ,kansas in particular1 which seemed to me to be the normal thing for a young man to do4 ,my parents were in full accord1 as their example and precept had always been favorable to as large a use of books as circumstances would allow4 ,though up to that time my every educational need had been met1 it was recognized that my college training must come only after ,i had earned the money to provide it4 ,i was the oldest of five children and my father's income was only that of a country doctor in a county seat1 a town of #bejj inhabitants4 ,before her marriage my mother had taught school and many of her best friends and mine were teaching school at the time of my graduation from the high school4 ,this and perhaps more particularly the further fact that ,i had received good grades at school seemed logically to suggest that by teaching school ,i should earn money for a college education4 ,but during the summer of #ahif1 and1 again the next year1 ,i sought in vain to persuade country school boards that ,i was the proper person to teach the youth of their district4 ,they considered me rather young and forsooth lacking in experience1 which ,i was seeking a chance to secure4 ,and so ,i was saved from becoming a poor school teacher4 ,opportunities as clerk1 however1 were offered and by the first of ,april1 #aija1 ,i had experiences in hardware1 grocery1 and shoe stores4 ,the various changes were made through no fault of my own2 but1 though they were in the nature of promotions1 the financial return was so slight that after five years ,i had perhaps not more than #ej saved toward my cherished college career4 ,on ,april #ae1 #aija1 ,i began work for a real estate loan company with duties but little more responsible than a fifteen-year-old office boy might have discharged4 ,the wages were small1 but were soon advanced4 ,in four years ,i was earning what was accounted a goodly amount for a town of that size4 ,though ,i had spent some money on vacation trips each summer and for necessary things throughout the year1 ,i had saved a few hundred dollars4 ,meanwhile1 my brother1 two and a half years younger than ,i1 had secured fairly remunerative work earlier in life than ,i had done4 ,he1 too1 wanted a college education and had entered the ,university of ,kansas in ,september1 #aija4 ,as nearly as ,i can recall he had enough money to go through the first year without doing any outside work4 ,occasionally during the next three years ,i lent him money which he repaid when ,i was later in school2 but in the main he supplemented his summers' earnings by strenuous activities during the school year4 ,he was at different times steward of a boarding club1 night clerk at a hotel1 and one of the student assistants in the ,university library4 ,his experiences and difficulties were really of more interest1 and more particularly those of a student working his way through college than any ,i can relate of myself4 ,in ,september1 #aije1 when twenty-six years old1 ,i went to ,lawrence1 ,kansas1 and enrolled in the state university as a special student4 ,i desired courses particularly in history and economics4 ,as ,i expected my college career to be limited to one year1 ,i believed the special classification was advisable4 ,because ,i wished to study as much as possible ,i attempted no outside work1 but ,i was economical in my expenditures4 ,yet ,i did not then1 nor at any later time1 deprive myself of a reasonable amount of recreation4 ,at the close of school in ,june1 #aijf1 ,i returned to my work in the real estate loan office in my home town4 ,i was not satisfied with the extent of the schooling received4 ,i kept under my ambition1 however1 and laid aside my earnings again until ,september1 #aijg4 ,i then returned to the ,university and again enrolled as a special student4 ,i started to earn my board by washing dishes1 but after six weeks' trial ,i found that it took so much time that ,i quit outside work and gave myself wholly to study4 ,the spell of the college was now strong upon me and ,i wanted to continue until ,i could secure a bachelor's degree4 ,to so shape my course during the next three years as to correct the irregularities of my 8special0 course was a task1 especially since ,i was now vitally in newspaper work and desired more courses in history and ,english than the schedule permitted for a regular student4 ,though ,i yet had money to my credit1 ,i wanted to be able to aid my sister who started this year4 ,therefore1 to earn my board1 ,i served as table waiter at a club from ,september1 #aijh1 to ,june1 #aiji4 ,meanwhile1 my outside duties on the student newspaper and in ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 work increased in addition to the larger opportunities for profitable recreation4 ,thus my life was growing strenuous4 ,in an effort to keep down expenses1 ,i started the fall of #aiji as associate steward of a club4 ,ill success attended me1 and before ,christmas ,i was paying board4 ,my work for the student newspaper brought me some slight return financially1 but not commensurate with the time it took4 ,i was also a member of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 cabinet this year4 ,from ,september1 #aiaj1 to my graduation in ,june1 #aiaa1 ,i gave a very considerable amount of time to my newspaper work and had more pay therefore2 but at the end of my course ,i had borrowed several hundred dollars from a brother4 ,i was on the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 cabinet during this last year also4 ,my university training has not prepared me for any get-rich-quick career4 ,efforts since graduation to push ahead into a newspaper life have added to1 rather than taken from1 my debt4 ,nevertheless1 ,i do not regret the plan of action which ,i followed to get a college education4 ,i cannot estimate in dollars the satisfaction ,i have in the retrospect4 ,i was not penurious with myself when in school1 and so enjoyed life1 even though always economical4 ,the friendships formed and the larger vision of life which ,i now have compensate me for past difficulties and those yet to be overcome ere ,i can obtain such financial stability as ,i might have acquired six or more years ago if ,i had been content to continue in the real estate loan office of my home town4 ,oklahoma ,city1 ,okla4 ,,the ,,college ,,inspiration ,,frank ,r4 ,,dyer1 ,a4,b4 ,my first inspiration toward college came from a public school teacher by the name of ,homer ,c4 ,campbell1 now a successful business man of ,portland1 ,oregon4 ,mr4 ,campbell was a gifted teacher1 brimful of inspiration and helpful suggestions4 ,my impression while ,i was a boy was that the rich only could get through college4 ,my estimated amount of money needed was far beyond what ,i ever had seen together and was beyond my fondest hopes4 ,during the seven months of ,mr4 ,campbell's stay with us1 he taught us much not in the books4 ,he made us realize that there were higher fields inviting us and the means to the end were within our reach4 ,before he left us he exacted a promise from me that ,i would go to college4 ,i was very willing to promise1 due to my confidence and admiration for the man2 but1 at this late date1 ,i realized that far1 far away was my hope to realize the goal4 ,my old teacher did not let me forget my early ambitions1 but took numerous opportunities to remind me of my promise4 ,after teaching a short term in the country and then serving as clerk more than a year in a country store1 ,i quit the job with many misgivings and started for the ,ohio ,normal ,university1 located at ,ada1 ,ohio1--the school founded1 and many years directed by that prince of educators1 ,president ,henry ,s4 ,lehr4 ,i had all the queer sensations of a new boy in a strange school1 but the experience is common to all who will read these letters2 so it will be unnecessary to repeat it here4 ,i had one hundred and forty dollars as a nucleus that ,i had saved from two years' work4 ,three terms made up my first year4 ,there were five terms in the year4 ,i was able to get through three of them1 and have a small amount of my capital left4 ,i may add that the ,ohio ,normal was run for the benefit of the student body and a vacation was a very rare occurrence1 and when it did occur1 there was what was known as a 8vacation term0 for the students who did not have time to quit4 ,in the town was my old teacher1 who often had a kind word for me and always pointed to the day of graduation1 a day which seemed too far away for me to consider4 ,i taught school that winter4 ,as soon as school closed ,i went back to the ,normal1 took a new start1 and worked all summer till time for school to begin in the fall4 ,so1 by the plan of the ,normal school1 ,i was able to teach each winter and go to school from early in the spring till late in the fall1 and still make the purse hold out4 ,the high cost of living was not in evidence4 ,i paid #a4dj a week for table board1 and fifty cents for my room4 ,this continued till the purse came in a little stronger1 and ,i went up to #a4fj a week4 ,i may add that in my later years ,i got into the plutocrat class and paid #b4jj a week1 but the room rent was the same4 ,two dollars per week was a regular ,rockefeller rate for the ,normal boys1 but we lived well4 ,our wants increased as the years went by1 but we were able to have some surplus left over each year1 which was a very gratifying condition4 ,thus1 by half year work and half year study1 ,i was able to complete the classical course when the long hoped for day of graduation came4 ,this is now history4 ,my ambition had been thoroughly aroused and ,i felt that ,i must now finish college4 ,my surplus with a little that my brother lent me during the last few months in college was enough to take me through4 ,as ,i look back over the road1 ,i find only pleasant recollections of the college work1 even though there were times when we bought our coal oil by the half gallon because it avoided a large investment at one time in one commodity4 ,we did not ride in automobiles then as many do now4 ,our only expense aside from lodging1 board1 and fuel1 was to spend a few dollars for a good book now and then1 and a few dollars more for lecture tickets4 ,the lectures were of the best1 by ,joseph ,cook1 ,george ,wendling1 ,sam ,jones and men of that type4 ,we must admit at this late date that our best girl beside us made the lectures more interesting and instructive than they could have otherwise been4 ,our temporal wants were few1 and our intellectual opportunities1 accordingly great4 ,one time in traveling through the mountainous part of ,kentucky the most conspicuous sights were the cabin on the barren hillside and the razor-back hog with the proverbial knot in his tail to keep him from running through the crack in the rail fences4 ,i was so impressed with the simplicity of the life there that ,i said to a gentleman on the train near me1 8,how do these people ever supply their wants80 ,he replied in the characteristic ,english of the locality1 8,mister1 they ain't got no wants40 ,these people seemed to be happy4 ,as ,i look back over my college work and experience when often the purse got down below the last nickel1 ,i recall that our desires for knowledge were so paramount that we did not seem to have any wants4 ,at this time of life ,i take off my hat from the place where the hair ought to grow to do honor to the ,ohio ,normal ,university1 because it made it possible for me and thousands of others to get inspiration for higher things4 ,all honor to the ,ohio ,wesleyan ,university1 my later school1 for its scholarly instruction1 its able professors1 its college association1 and above all its training in ,christian manhood1 a part of the curriculum never forgotten or neglected in the ,o4 ,w4 ,u4 ,may the years deal kindly with all such as the president emeritus of the ,ohio ,normal who will still inspire youths to do their best1 and reach out to the things beyond4 ,rewards have come to many of my professors in the ,ohio ,wesleyan ,university1 but the memory of their lives and work remains4 ,any young man or woman who has no obligation but his own support can enjoy the advantages of the best educational institutions of this or the ,old ,world and make every dollar of his expense independently4 ,wichita1 ,kansas4 ,,overcoming ,,hardships ,,viola ,e4 ,,frazier1 ,a4,b4 ,from the very beginning my opportunities in school were very limited4 ,i was the third child of a family of eight children4 ,my parents were very poor and we older children had to work hard helping father fight the wolf from the door4 ,then too1 father did not take the interest in sending us to school that he should have taken1 although he was an educated man1 and taught school nineteen years4 ,he claimed that we could learn as much at home as we could at school4 ,holding to this theory he kept us at home4 ,the theory might have worked well1 if he had given us fixed hours for study and play2 but instead of this he kept us at work on the farm all summer and fall4 ,in winter he would cut and sell wood4 ,every morning1 when the weather was not too severe1 he took my two oldest brothers 7and me too1 when mother could spare me7 to the woods to cut or saw a load of wood1 while he hauled a load to town and sold it4 ,of course1 ,i could not cut wood1 but ,i could pull one end of a cross-cut saw equal to either one of my brothers4 ,when the weather would not allow us to go to the woods1 father made us study4 ,i had a yearning desire to learn to read and cipher4 ,still1 like all other children1 ,i liked to play1 and devoted most of my time to it4 ,one of my cousins1 who lived near us1 used to come over and play with us every ,sunday4 ,she would tell us what a good time she had at school4 ,this made me anxious to go too1 and ,i pleaded with father to let me go1 but my pleading was all in vain4 ,he said ,i would learn more mischief than anything else1 and he was not going to send me4 ,mother saw that ,i would learn1 if ,i only had an opportunity1 and she1 too1 insisted on my going to school4 ,still father would not listen to the request4 ,at the age of twelve ,i had never been inside of a schoolhouse4 ,mother saw that father was making a mistake by keeping me out of school4 ,so she decided to send me without his consent4 ,one day when father came to dinner1 he did not see me and inquired where ,i was4 ,mother told him that ,i had gone to school4 ,he hardly knew what to say or think2 so at last he said 7realizing that he was in the wrong73 8,if she is determined to go to school1 let her go1 and let us see what she is going to do40 ,the question then arose1 how was ,i to get my books8 ,i knew father would not get them for me4 ,i told my cousin 7,miss ,nettie ,bruce7 my situation1 and she agreed to lend me her books the first year4 ,after that ,i always raised turkeys or ducks enough to buy everything that ,i needed in school4 ,i went to the public schools five sessions4 ,during this time ,i made fairly good progress4 ,an almost uncontrollable thirst for knowledge took possession of me4 ,i was not satisfied unless ,i had a book in my hand4 ,my teacher told me that ,i ought to go to college4 ,i thought this was impossible4 ,so ,i decided that ,i would teach the next year4 ,during the summer ,professor ,j4 ,j4 ,lincoln1 one of father's old schoolmates1 paid us a visit4 ,he insisted on my going to college4 ,father wanted to send me1 but was not financially able4 ,professor ,lincoln told him how ,i could go with very little cost to him4 ,he told him that he could get me a position in the dining room1 by which ,i could pay half of my board4 ,he thought that father could certainly arrange to lend me the other half1 and the college would wait until ,i finished for my tuition4 ,this seemed reasonable1 and after a little consideration father agreed to send me4 ,on ,september #e1 #aijf1 ,i started to ,elon ,college1 ,n4 ,c4 ,this was my first trip from home4 ,the first few weeks were trying ones with me4 ,the thought of being two hundred and fifty miles from home without money or friends was almost more than ,i could bear4 ,but ,i plucked up courage enough to conquer the homesickness1 and just determined to stay4 ,it was not long before ,i began to make friends4 ,i entered the sub-,freshman class4 ,had the faculty allowed me1 ,i would have undertaken two years' work in one4 ,i went there with the determination to do all that my strength would permit4 ,i managed to get them to allow me to take twenty-six hours' work a week4 ,this gave me all that ,i could do4 ,i did not have much time for pleasure like the other girls4 ,as ,i was kept very busy1 the time soon slipped away4 ,on ,april #ba ,i received a telegram saying1 8,mother is very ill4 ,come home at once40 ,the next day ,i arrived at home and found her very ill4 ,i knew that she could not live long4 ,i sat by her bedside until the #ith of ,june1 when ,god called her home4 ,my hopes of ever receiving an education were now gone4 ,as ,i was the oldest girl1 and my youngest brother was only four years old1 the responsibilities of the home and mother fell largely upon me4 ,i tried to fill her place in my humble way the very best ,i knew1 feeling that this was the only way that ,i could honor her4 ,the next fall before school opened ,i made preparation for my younger brothers and sisters to enter school the first day4 ,how ,i did wish that ,i could go too1 but ,i knew that this was impossible1 as father could not get anyone to keep house for him4 ,during the winter ,i devoted every spare minute that ,i could find to my books2 but you may know that ,i did not find much spare time after sewing1 cooking1 washing1 ironing and mending1 and keeping the house straight for such a large family4 ,of course1 my sisters helped me every evening and morning4 ,the next year ,i decided to teach the public school just three miles away1 where ,i could board at home1 and look after the home affairs too4 ,this year1 by raising turkeys and teaching ,i cleared one hundred and fifty dollars1 which was enough to pay half my board and other expenses 7not including tuition7 for one year in college4 ,father was very anxious for me to go to college now4 ,sister being seventeen years old1 father said he thought that she could keep house4 ,still ,i felt that she could not1 and that it was my duty to stay at home1 but at the same time ,i was praying for an opportunity to go to school4 ,taking father's advice1 the next fall ,i went back to ,elon4 ,the following spring1 before ,i came home1 sister ran away and married4 ,this made the way difficult for me to go back to college1 but father succeeded in hiring a housekeeper1 and ,i went back the next fall4 ,before ,i came home in the spring someone had persuaded our housekeeper to leave us and keep house for him4 ,father tried in vain to get another4 8,where there is a will there is a way40 ,i never gave up the hope of an education4 ,i did my best1 and left the rest with ,him1 ,who doeth all things well4 ,he opened the way1 led and directed1 and ,i did the acting4 ,the next fall1 one week before college opened1 ,god sent one of my cousins to keep house for us until ,i should finish my college course4 ,i continued waiting on the table in the college dining-room as long as ,i was in college4 ,this paid half of my board bill4 ,father lent me the other half4 ,during my vacation ,i raised chickens and turkeys enough to buy my clothes and books4 ,i gave the college my note for my tuition4 ,i graduated last spring and am now principal of the ,holy ,neck ,graded ,school4 ,i hope to clear enough money this year to pay my college tuition4 ,elkton1 ,va4 ,,the ,,dignity ,,of ,,service ,,rev4 ,,martin ,,luther ,,fox1 ,a4,b41 ,a4,m41 ,d4,d4 ,i was born on a ,michigan farm the third in a family of ten children4 ,some of the first words1 the meaning of which ,i learned1 were ,debt1 ,mortgage1 and ,interest4 ,and ,i soon appreciated that the united toil of the entire household was required through the season to provide for interest and annual payments on the mortgage4 ,we were happy1 notwithstanding the scarcity of money4 ,the produce from the farm furnished us with an abundance of good food and we had cheap but comfortable clothing4 ,with my brothers and sisters ,i attended the district school and completed my course in it at fifteen4 ,two or three young men of the neighborhood had gone to college and ,i was fully bent on going too4 ,it never occurred to me that poverty was a barrier to a college course4 ,i was large for my age4 ,so ,i took a teacher's examination and was granted a certificate and taught a six months' term of country school1 closing it seven days after ,i was sixteen4 ,i boarded at home and received #acj for the six months4 ,half of this money ,i gave to my father and with the other half ,i entered and completed the spring term of the high school4 ,during the winter evenings while ,i was teaching ,i studied ,latin grammar and ,jones' 8,first ,latin ,lessons40 ,hence ,i was able1 with some help from my brother1 to join the ,latin class on entering the high school1 to pass the examination at close of the term1 and thus to have a year's ,latin to my credit4 ,i returned to school at the opening of the fall term1 but left at ,thanksgiving1 when ,i returned home to teach the same school ,i had taught the previous winter4 ,i received this time #abj for four months4 ,i studied my ,csar evenings1 and on rentering school in the spring found myself able to join the class and to maintain a passing grade4 ,i always was needed on the farm as soon as school closed in ,june4 ,there was a large hay crop and a wheat harvest of #ge to #ajj acres4 ,then followed plowing and preparation of soil for fall seeding4 ,but ,i generally found a few weeks and a few rainy days1 that ,i could take for making money4 ,i canvassed the country one summer selling a ,united ,states wall map4 ,the price was #b4jj1 within the reach of the farmer's purse4 ,i was quite successful in making sales1 and the commission was good4 ,indeed1 ,i regarded it a poor day in which ,i did not make five dollars1 so that in two or three weeks ,i earned about #fj1 my capital for the coming school year4 ,i entered college in the fall of #ahhc4 ,i really had no money and had no hope of any financial help from home4 ,during the summer ,i had earned enough to purchase a four years' scholarship1 the value of which was #ajj1 but which ,i secured at a reduced price4 ,this1 together with good health and a hopefully inclined temperament1 was my capital with which to begin my college course4 ,i secured a room in the men's dormitory1 and to obtain necessary furniture1 ,i had to incur a debt of #af4 ,the room was to cost me #ab per year4 ,of course1 ,i had to have books and that increased my debt2 but ,i was perfectly familiar with the word1 for my whole previous life had been concerned with it4 ,i did not worry4 ,but with neither wheat nor potatoes growing to pay my debt1 ,i realized that the situation required some attention4 ,i noticed in a corner of the campus about fifteen cords of four foot beech and maple wood4 ,i made inquiry and learned that it belonged to the college president4 ,then ,i called upon him and applied for the position of wood sawer to him4 ,he asked me whether ,i had ever sawed wood4 ,i replied truthfully that ,i had never sawed much1 but that ,i knew how it was done4 ,he said he would furnish the saw and the 8horse0 and that ,i would have to saw only enough each day to keep him supplied4 ,that suited me1 for it meant that ,i could have other contracts running at the same time4 ,it took practically the whole winter to complete the work1 sawing usually toward evening enough for the following day4 ,my compensation in money was #bj4 ,but ,i was also facing the question of daily bread4 ,i couldn't go to a boarding club for ,i had no money4 ,there was a college boarding hall4 ,i noticed that they kept a cow1 and ,i conceived the idea that that cow might help support me4 ,i applied to the matron and arranged that for feeding and milking the cow and running some errands 7the telephone was not yet7 ,i was to have my board4 ,it seemed to me then that everything was favorable4 ,i continued to earn my board in this way till towards the close of my sophomore year4 ,then1 for what reason ,i do not now recall1 ,i resigned as milkman and secured a position to assist in the dining-room of a leading hotel4 ,there was no specific contract as to how much ,i was to do4 ,what was right in service for my board was left entirely to my judgment4 ,but ,i recall that ,i aimed at one thing--punctuality4 ,i do not remember ever to have been late4 ,i remained there until ,i voluntarily quit near the close of my senior year4 ,i never had any misunderstanding with anyone while there2 was always treated well1 and liked the place4 ,the board1 of course1 was good--almost too good for a college student4 ,a young man in college1 though1 must have collars and cuffs1 and a cravat occasionally and new clothes4 ,he will have laundry bills1 and must have money for stationery and postage1 if he writes home to mother weekly4 ,every young man who has a mother should do so4 ,i was such a young man1 and of necessity ,i was constantly alert for employment that would bring me needed money4 ,my suit became shabby4 ,i pondered what to do4 ,i saw in the ,sunday ,school ,times an announcement of ,dr4 ,trumbull's new book1 8,teaching and ,teachers10 and sent for a copy and agent's terms4 ,it sold for #a4ej and the commission was #fj cents per copy4 ,i started out1 and by putting in spare time for a week ,i earned enough to purchase the new suit4 ,the college cistern needed cleaning4 ,i took the contract for #c4ej4 ,it was a large cistern and supplied the drinking water for the dormitory students4 ,there was about one foot of water in it the day ,i cleaned it4 ,i hired a fellow for #a4jj to hoist the buckets and ,i went down into it and scrubbed it clean4 ,we finished about sunset4 ,the authorities concluded to lay a new conducting pipe from the dormitory to the cistern1 a distance of about fifteen feet4 ,while we were cleaning they tore the old one out4 ,just as we finished1 the college president came along and peered down at me4 8,ah10 said he1 8how nice and clean4 ,now pray for rain40 8,no1 no10 exclaimed the registrar1 who had overheard him1 8don't you see we have not laid the new conductor pipe8 ,wait till that is laid before you pray40 ,there was no sign of rain4 ,we felt perfectly secure in leaving it2 but that night there came a great storm with a terrific downpour4 ,the water collected from the dormitory roof was discharged into that open clay ditch in which the new conducting pipe was to be laid and thence flowed in a dashing stream into the cistern4 ,at sun-up there was four feet of water and clay in the cistern4 ,i had another contract at #e4jj that day1 and ,i wrote on the fly-leaf of my trigonometry that night1 8,god helps those who help themselves10 and ,i've believed it ever since4 ,let no one think ,i had no fun4 ,the memory of my college days is decidedly pleasant4 ,i found time to play ball4 ,i was a member of the college male quartette and of the ,choral ,union4 ,i always attended the college lecture and entertainment course4 ,i was a member of one of the literary societies1 and was frequently on the program of great public demonstrations of college oratory4 ,i never was conscious of any slight because ,i worked4 ,on graduation day ,ex-president ,rutherford ,b4 ,hayes addressed our class4 ,some things he said seemed intended for me4 ,he spoke of the ,dignity of ,work4 ,he said many people had hands and didn't know how to use them4 ,it was really an appeal for manual training1 a phase of education not then in vogue1 but to which advanced educators were turning attention4 ,but ,i had had it all as an extra4 ,i had read ,latin1 ,greek1 and ,german with my classmates4 ,i had traversed the historical centuries in their company4 ,i had struggled with them on conic sections and had lounged with them in logarithms4 ,they were my equals and superiors in all these1 but ,i had the advantage--,i had taken ,manual ,training4 ,there were some points of contact around that college and campus that ,i only had touched4 ,to be sure it was of necessity1 but it was a blessing1 nevertheless4 ,i have not yet lived to see the hour that ,i have regretted that ,i worked my way through college4 ,st4 ,joseph1 ,mich4 ,a ,,happy ,,misfortune ,,hon4 ,,burton ,l4 ,,french1 ,a4,b41 ,,ph4,m4 ,burton ,l4 ,french of ,moscow1 ,idaho1 who is now serving his fifth term as representative in ,congress1 was born on a farm near ,delphi1 ,ind41 ,august #a1 #ahge1 of ,charles ,a4 and ,mina ,p4 7,fischer7 ,french4 ,in #ahhj the family moved farther west and lived two and a half years near ,kearney1 ,nebraska1 where young ,burton attended four terms of three months each1 in the country schools4 ,when he was seven years of age1 his people moved to the ,northwest1 living part of the time in the ,state of ,washington and part of the time in ,idaho4 ,at the age of fifteen1 ,mr4 ,french had completed1 in the ,palouse1 ,wash41 public schools1 a course practically equivalent to our present public school course1 including the first year of high school work4 ,from this period in his life1 he worked his way through the preparatory school and through college1 taking the degree of ,a4,b4 at the ,university of ,idaho in #aija1 and the degree of ,ph4,m41 at the ,university of ,chicago in #aijc4 ,,how ,,and ,,why ,,he ,,worked ,,his ,,way ,,through ,,college4 ,mr4 ,french says3 8,as one of the older children in a large family1 the responsibilities that rested upon my father and mother at the time ,i was ready to take up educational work preparatory to entering college1 and as well later1 to carry through a course in college1 were such that ,i was thrown upon my own resources4 8,two of the chief circumstances that attended my early life were3-- 8#a4 ,that of being required as a boy to perform under the direction of my father and mother1 a reasonable amount of wholesome manual labor1 largely the kind that is required of the ordinary farmer's boy4 8#b4 ,that at the age of sixteen1 ,i was thrown upon my own resources in the matter of continuing my educational work4 8,my parents1 aside from teaching me respect for manual labor and in a large degree helping me to be proficient in the same1 inspired me with the ambition to complete a college course4 ,i did not regard the fact that ,i would need to work my way through college as in any way an embarrassment1 and ,i do not recall ever having had the wish that my people could send me through college4 8,before reaching my eighteenth year1 ,i had been able to attend the preparatory department of the ,university of ,idaho for six months and had earned the money to carry me through this period by serving as clerk in a general merchandise store and by working in hotels as a waiter4 8,following the close of the term of school1 ,i found work as a waiter during the summer months1 and in ,september following my eighteenth birthday ,i began teaching in a country school4 ,during the succeeding eight years ,i completed the work in the preparatory school and a college course in the ,university of ,idaho1 leading to the degree of ,a4,b41 earning most of the money that ,i required to pay my expenses by teaching school and at periods when there was no employment in this field1 by working upon a farm4 8,my circumstances required that ,i take my college course by doing part of a year's work at a time and ,i was able to attend college from the opening of the college year in the fall until the close of the college year in the spring1 only once during my college course and that was during my junior year4 ,during the period1 too1 ,i was away from college two years in succession1 serving during this time as principal of the public schools at ,juliaetta1 ,idaho4 8,during the latter portion of my undergraduate years1 ,i was able to do a small amount of tutoring in the preparatory department of the ,university1 and as well1 at one time earned my board by managing a boarding club that accommodated from twenty-five to sixty students and faculty members4 ,in order to remain in college and complete my senior year with my class1 it was necessary for me to borrow a small amount of money1 which ,i was able to do1 without imposing upon anyone else the responsibility of standing as my security4 8,prior to completing my senior year in the ,university of ,idaho1 ,i had been elected a ,fellow in the ,political ,science ,department of the ,university of ,chicago4 ,my fellowship1 supplemented by a small amount of money which ,i borrowed1 enabled me to do postgraduate work in that institution1 leading to the degree of ,ph4,m41 which ,i received in #aijc4 8,it is proper to say that during my undergraduate days ,i was able to do certain classes of work while engaged in teaching that helped me materially in carrying my college work upon returning to the ,university4 ,for instance1 one spring ,i made my herbarium1 collecting1 mounting and classifying the plants required to be assembled by each student in botany4 8,not only was this work of benefit to me1 but it was of intense interest to every boy and girl in the country surrounding my school4 ,many were the children making herbariums of their own1 who would assume an air of superior importance in comparing themselves with their fellows who did not accept the names anemone-nemorosa in lieu of wind flower1 ranunculus ranunculace in place of buttercup1 and the common variety of the saxifrage family as philadelphus-grandiflorus instead of mock orange4 ,this was the most clear-cut piece of work that ,i probably did outside of the classroom1 though in history1 mathematics1 and the languages1 ,i was able to do a large amount of work that made it possible for me to carry with less difficulty the classroom work upon returning to the ,university4 8,another thing that is quite as important as the manner in which ,i earned the money to carry me through college1 is the manner in which ,i spent it4 ,the high cost of living was a serious problem1 and having obtained my money in serious manner1 ,i necessarily measured its value with much care1 and during more than half of my years in the preparatory and undergraduate school1 ,i found it necessary to be a member of a bachelors' club made up of students1 who1 like myself1 were working their way through college4 ,in this way we were able to lower the expenses of living considerably4 8,in the letter from the author of #8,college ,men without ,money1' ,mr4 ,riddle in referring to me as one who had worked his way through college1 spoke of me as among that fortunate class1 and ,i regard his phrase as a very happy one4 ,probably the brief recital of my experiences and the way in which ,i earned money to complete my college course1 may mean little or nothing to anyone other than myself4 ,to me1 however1 the working my way through college is a positive asset1 and as ,i said in the beginning of this sketch1 ,i regard it as one of the most fortunate circumstances of my life40 ,moscow1 ,idaho4 ,,finding ,,one',s ,,place ,,irwin ,w4 ,,gernert1 ,a4,b4 ,the problem of a college education confronts many young people4 ,we have many colleges1 but how to obtain a college education is a vital question to many high school graduates and others who have not the money4 ,here are the colleges and the teachers1 but many do not have the funds on which to go4 ,this is the decisive hour1 as here it is that one decides to climb the hill or remain at the foot4 ,my experience in working my way through college is not peculiar1 but tallies with the experience of hundreds who have undertaken the same task4 ,if a person is determined to get an education he will succeed1 and herein lies the keynote to the problem4 ,it was my fortune to attend a college situated in a small town1 as such locations are always best for the one who has to make his way4 ,work was easily secured1 and as my desire was to get an education by my labor1 ,i seized every opportunity for making a dime4 ,serving as janitor1 making fires in the early morning hours1 raking snow and ice from the college walks in the winter1 raking leaves on the campus in the fall and spring1 serving as clerk on ,saturdays and other work of this kind paid my way4 ,but that which gave me the inspiration for all this1 and made the task easy1 was the one great purpose of preparing for the gospel ministry4 ,i have finished the ,a4,b4 course in ,wittenberg ,college1 ,springfield1 ,ohio1 and was better off financially the day of my graduation than the day on which ,i entered4 ,there is work for him who desires it4 ,there is always a place in life which we should fill1 and the finding of that place is an epoch in our lives1 and the preparation for it is what makes the event memorable and life-lasting4 ,louisville1 ,ky4 8,,the ,,tar ,,heel0 ,h4 ,b4 ,,gunter1 ,a4,b4 ,the why3 ,i wanted a college education4 ,the how3 ,by sticking type1 kicking the #h x #ab ,gordon jobber1 feeding the old ,babcock drum cylinder1 yanking the lever of the paper cutter 7which usually had a dull knife71 doctoring the ramshackle old engine in the print shop of ,the ,university ,press at ,chapel ,hill1 ,n4 ,c41 and working fourteen and sixteen hours a day1--and enjoying it1 too--on rare occasions1 especially when there was a ball game on the 8the ,hill40 ,later1 when ,i came to be manager of the shop1 the principal part of my work1 at times1 was finding new and novel excuses for not getting the work out on time4 ,i am not sure1 but ,i am inclined to think that ,i did my full share of creative work in that field1 a field in which imagination has done and is doing wonders4 ,i believe that ,i may safely refer to ,acting-,president ,e4 ,k4 ,graham1 ,dr4 ,archibald ,henderson1 ,dr4 ,george ,howe1 ,dr4 ,l4 ,r4 ,wilson1 ,professor ,n4 ,w4 ,walker and other members of the ,university faculty for testimonials along this line4 ,certainly they will bear me out in the statement that ,i always had an excuse ready2 also that ,i usually needed one4 ,the smell of the print shop had been in my nostrils since ,i was a mere youngster4 ,i 8learned the case0 on ,the ,express1 at ,sanford1 ,n4 ,c42 graduated into the shop of ,cole ,printing ,company1 in the same town2 worked for a short time in one or two other shops1 and so when ,i started for ,chapel ,hill in the fall of #aijd1 fired with enthusiasm by glowing tales of life on 8the ,hill10 ,i felt that ,i was fairly well equipped to earn my living and get an education4 ,i might state1 parenthetically1 that the enthusiasm lasted almost to ,university ,station4 ,it came back later with compound interest2 but when ,i first set foot on ,chapel ,hill soil ,i did not stand calmly and survey the world that ,i had come to conquer4 ,in fact1 the conquering instinct in my manly breast was distinctly dormant4 ,i was armed with fifty dollars1 enough to pay the registration fees and to give me a feeble shove4 ,the above soon lost its force1 however1 and it was up to me to dig1 which ,i did4 ,there may be poetry and there may be glory in working your way through college1 but ,i found that it consisted mostly of digging4 ,i got along fairly well with my school work during my freshman year4 ,i earned enough money1 lacking just five dollars1 besides my initial fifty1 to pay my expenses1 but ,i didn't luxuriate noticeably4 ,i did1 however1 learn to study4 ,it was well that ,i had learned this4 ,during the summer ,i received the appointment as manager of the print shop at ,chapel ,hill4 ,and then my troubles began in earnest4 ,i used to examine my head before going to bed1 to discover if my hair had turned white during the day4 ,the shop handled six or seven university publications1 ranging from the weekly students' paper to the annual catalogue1 in addition to a goodly amount of job work4 ,the work1 all except the binding1 was done by students4 ,their work at best was irregular4 ,the supply of printer-students was always short4 ,the university authorities gave free tuition to the boys in the shop1 but there never were enough of them on hand to keep up with the work properly4 ,it was owing to this fact that ,i was compelled to develop the excuse-making part of my imagination4 ,oh1 it was a man-sized job4 ,and ,i was just turned nineteen1 and the little blue devils were constantly on the job4 ,it was probably very fine training4 ,but it was also rather fierce4 ,but never mind4 ,the job carried with it a regular salary1 ridiculously small1 but enough to furnish the necessities and a luxury now and then4 ,i learned to crowd much work into a given period of time4 ,i learned the value and limitations of running a bluff4 ,i learned to love some of the faculty men1 who were patient with the shortcomings of the shop4 ,also ,i got off my school work in pretty good shape4 ,my junior year was not so bad4 ,i had learned that it was not a hanging crime for a publication to come out late--although some of the editors seemed to think so4 ,i had a better and larger force of student printers1 and ,i had more time for recreation4 ,also my salary had been increased so that ,i never had to worry about my board bill4 ,at the beginning of my senior year1 having been elected editor of ,the ,tar ,heel1 the college weekly1 ,i resigned as manager and borrowed a little money4 ,i did some work in the shop1 enough to keep me from forgetting that ,i was a horny-handed son of toil1 and associated 7euphemism for loafed7 with my fellows more1 and played a little football--and made marks that were not nearly so good as those ,i had made in the days of my labor4 ,altogether1 though ,i wouldn't care to go through with it again1 the work there was good for me4 ,it was hard at times1 mighty hard4 ,but the old shop was a ,god-send to me1 as it has been a ,god-send to many another young fellow1 who owes his college training to the opportunity offered there4 ,greensboro1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,no ,,work ,,too ,,hard ,,rev4 ,,john ,s4 ,,halfaker1 ,b4,a4 ,on ,january #g1 #aijb1 after a long and hard summer's work on the farm ,i determined to enter college and prepare myself educationally for the ,christian ministry4 ,i had carefully saved the earnings from my summer's work1 which was my first away from home4 ,my accumulations amounted to one ,crescent bicycle1 a trunk filled with the kind of clothing that a green country lad would get when making his first purchases in the average 8,jew ,store10 and one hundred and twenty dollars in cash4 ,i felt that with this ,i would be able to become established and be in a position to earn my way4 ,my intentions were good and my faith was strong4 ,having seen in the ,herald of ,gospel ,liberty the announcement that any honest industrious young man who desired a college education could attend ,defiance ,college a whole year for one hundred and ten dollars1 ,i thought1 here was my chance4 ,surely if such a young man could go to college for the amount named above ,i was running no serious risk in undertaking to go from ,january to ,june on that amount4 ,my eagerness increased4 ,now1 it was almost two hundred miles from my home to ,defiance1 ,ohio4 ,this was a long journey for a lad of my makeup to take on his own initiative and under protest of many friends4 ,but amid showers of tears and volumes of good advice my mind was made up1 and no one was happier than ,i when the time came to start4 ,at eight-thirty o'clock ,i arrived in the historic old town of ,defiance1 reputed far and wide for its mud and natural scenery4 ,i shall never forget the old board walks4 ,it was dark and the rain was coming straight down4 ,no one met me at the train for ,i had sent no herald to announce my arrival4 ,i mounted the old hack and made my way straight to the ,college4 ,at that time the institution did not belong to the ,christian denomination4 ,really you would have thought it didn't belong to anyone4 ,dr4 ,john ,r4 ,h4 ,latchaw was the ,president and ,rev4 ,p4 ,w4 ,mc,reynolds was ,dean4 ,dr4 ,latchaw was out of the city and when ,i arrived at the college ,dean ,mc,reynolds met me at the door4 ,he received me and welcomed me in his characteristic manner and proceeded at once to enroll me as a student4 ,i was soon enrolled1 had my tuition paid1 and was on my way in company with the ,dean to find a room4 ,by nine o'clock ,i was located and had partially unpacked my trunk4 ,that was 8all glory0 for me4 ,i was out for business1 therefore it was my business to be out4 ,my plans were laid to be regular and persistent in my work1 so1 no sooner were we located1 than ,i was on my way down town to purchase an alarm clock4 ,not only did ,i need the ,college but the ,college needed me1 as luck would have it4 ,the basement was full of four-foot wood 7cord wood71 which must be made ready for four small heaters in various rooms of the building4 ,it was in the basement of the ,college building that ,i took my physical culture each evening and on ,saturdays1 with a cash dividend of twenty-five cents for each cord of wood ,i cut4 ,soon we had all the wood cut1 and ,i was out of a job4 ,but my attention was called to the fact that more wood was needed at my room1 and that it was my turn to furnish the supply4 ,i inquired and found that if ,i would walk out in the country about three miles ,i could have the privilege of chopping up the dead timber for the wood4 ,on ,saturday mornings ,i shouldered my ax and saw and made for the woods4 ,many was the day that ,i chopped entirely with the ax all day1 with four cords of fine wood in the rick at night and a good supply of tired and sore muscles4 ,we were able to get the wood hauled in at twenty-five cents a cord4 ,i had my supply of wood for our room1 and sold about ten cords to other students who had more money than desire to exercise after the woodman's fashion4 ,i would deliver the wood evenings at #a4ej a cord4 ,this gave me some spending money4 ,june came and ,i was getting along well1 when one day after supper at the club ,i engaged in a wrestling match which resulted in a broken arm4 ,all my plans were broken in a moment4 ,my work was at an end for the summer4 ,after commencement ,i returned home and spent the summer doing errands and chores with no financial income4 ,during the summer ,i was notified that the ,college would be removed from ,defiance1 ,ohio1 to ,muncie1 ,indiana1 about fifty miles from my home1 and that the school would be known as ,palmer ,university4 ,i was urged to come to ,muncie early and enroll in the new institution4 ,no sooner did ,i receive the word than ,i mounted my bicycle and peddled my way over to ,muncie to see what arrangements ,i could make to earn my way4 ,the ,president arranged for me to become advertising solicitor and business manager of the ,university ,bulletin4 ,this was a new line of work for me1 and it was with some hesitancy that ,i took hold of the work4 ,but ,i was in no condition for physical labor2 so gave myself the advantage of a doubt and went to work at once4 ,i was very successful and cleared about forty dollars1 which those in charge seemed to think was too large an income for a student and began at once to curtail the contract4 ,this was not at all pleasing to me4 ,in the meanwhile the effort to remove the ,college from ,defiance to ,muncie had failed4 ,the citizens of ,defiance arose in arms1 elected ,dean ,mc,reynolds ,president of the ,college1 put up a considerable cash guaranty and began an enthusiastic canvass for students and money4 ,the ,college at ,defiance became the property of the ,christian ,church1 and a definite campaign for funds was instituted and carried forward by ,president ,mc,reynolds4 ,all the old students were at once communicated with and urged to return4 ,i was acquainted at ,defiance and was only waiting for an opportunity to return4 ,president ,mc,reynolds remembered the farmer lad who could handle the saw and the ax so well4 ,he wrote me that if ,i would come to ,defiance he would give the position of janitor at a salary of seven dollars per month and that ,i could room in the ,college building and board myself4 ,i thought that ,i would be able to earn something in addition1 so ,i sat down and answered the letter at once1 stating the train on which ,i would arrive4 ,when ,i reached ,defiance ,i thought it the most beautiful spot in all the earth4 ,i felt like the prodigal son when he came in sight of his father's house4 ,president ,mc,reynolds met me about two blocks from the campus and with suit-case in hand we went to the ,college4 ,in less time than it takes to write it we had gone over the work and ,i was employed as janitor of the ,college1 a position which ,i held for two long school years4 ,my arm was weak and tender1 but the work was not slighted4 ,at the close of each month ,i received a check for seven dollars4 ,the smile that played over the ,president's face was worth more than the check4 ,he simply wouldn't let a fellow get discouraged or give up4 ,of course1 it was impossible to get along on seven dollars a month1 even if one had no room-rent to pay and boarded himself1 so ,i was compelled to earn something besides4 ,i undertook the laundry agency1 which the first week netted me the snug sum of ten cents4 ,but by the following ,june my commissions amounted to from two and a half to three and a half dollars each week4 ,it was a good business indeed for a student4 ,at the same time ,i was college librarian and in this way earned a part of my tuition4 ,my work was very heavy1 indeed1 but ,i had never failed to make the grade2 so ,i felt that the only honorable way out was to go straight ahead4 ,in the fall of #aijc ,i applied to the ,northwestern ,ohio ,conference for a license to preach1 which was granted4 ,i began by supplying wherever opportunity afforded4 ,i did not drop any of the work ,i had been doing1 but during the remaining college course ,i supplied the pulpits of over forty different churches4 ,sometimes they more than paid my expenses1 and again ,i bore my own expenses4 ,in the fall of #aijd ,i accepted the pastorate of two churches in connection with my college work4 ,all the time ,i was compelled to do at least a part of the work at the ,college4 ,in ,january of #aije when ,i engaged in special meetings with my churches it was impossible for me to carry the work at the ,college4 ,i then left school and accepted the pastorate of the third church4 ,in ,july of #aije ,i married and moved to ,wakarusa as pastor of the ,christian ,church there4 ,i served that church for a period of two years1 after which ,i resigned to complete my course at the ,college4 ,i moved to ,defiance and served two churches during the school year of #aijg-h1 and graduated in ,june of #aijh4 ,i am proud of my ,alma ,mater1 and since my graduation ,i have had the honor of being president of our ,alumni ,association4 ,in ,september of #aijh ,i was called to serve the ,christian ,church at ,lima1 ,ohio1 as pastor4 ,i continued for just four years4 ,i then received and accepted a call to the pastorate of the ,first ,christian ,church of ,columbus1 ,ohio4 ,these have been years of toil and sacrifice and joy4 ,though much of the way seemed dark1 ,i have been conscious of the guidance of an unseen hand all the way4 ,columbus1 ,ohio4 ,,cultivating ,,side ,,lines ,,professor ,,daniel ,,boone ,,heller1 ,a4,b4 ,i was born ,january #ai1 #ahhh1 on a small farm near ,ladora1 ,iowa ,county1 ,iowa4 ,my first nine years were care free1 with no responsibility except school and play4 ,in the spring of my tenth year my mother died1 and there being a large family it was difficult for father to keep the children together thereafter4 ,in the following fall ,i1 with two younger brothers and a sister1 was placed in the care of the ,iowa ,children's ,home at ,des ,moines1 ,iowa4 ,in the following ,february ,i was 8bound out0 to a big ranchman in ,south ,dakota4 ,tagged as a sack of sugar1 stating my name1 from whence ,i came1 and my destination1 ,i was ushered aboard a ,milwaukee train1 only too soon to reach my new home on the ,dakota prairie4 ,very soon after my arrival upon the ranch1 ,i was informed that the purpose of my presence there was not for ornament but for work4 ,i also very early realized that my portion of the work was not imaginary4 ,during the second summer1 my assignment was to milk ten cows twice daily and to spend the rest of the eighteen hours of the working day in the harvest field4 ,i did not1 however1 complain about the amount of work that ,i had to do1 but ,i did object to the kind of treatment that was accorded to me4 ,being but eleven years of age1 ,i did not have the judgment of a man1 and ,i suffered for it4 ,i shall carry through life scars of that old raw-hide whip1--and they did not come by chance4 ,believing that ,i was not adapted to ranch life1 ,i decided to take an extended leave of absence4 ,on the #eth of ,august1 #ahii1 before daybreak1 unknown to anybody1 ,i started on my journey4 ,all day under a scorching sun ,i tramped the dusty road westward across the prairie4 ,tired1 penniless1 and half starved1 ,i begged food and lodging of a family late in the evening4 ,i told them my story1 and winning their sympathy ,i remained with them several weeks4 ,after an absence of about two years1 ,i returned to ,iowa ,county1 only to find that my old home was no more4 ,my father1 older brother1 and sisters were each supporting themselves1 and ,i must do likewise4 ,for seven years ,i made my home with an old soldier1 who lived near ,ladora4 ,i worked during each summer1 and very profitably spent the short winters at the yellow schoolhouse located in the woods4 ,in the fall of my eighteenth year ,i entered the high school at ,ladora4 ,the school was small1 not accredited1 hence the advantages offered were much inferior to those of larger schools4 ,believing that ,i could make better progress elsewhere1 ,i entered the ,iowa ,wesleyan ,academy in the fall of #aijg4 ,it was here that ,i first came in contact with the real struggle for an education4 ,i had often dreamed of college life and its opportunities4 ,now my visions were beginning to be realized1 but not without effort4 ,i entered the ,iowa ,wesleyan ,academy with three hundred dollars and an ambition2 after graduating from the ,academy1 ,i had only an ambition4 ,my money was gone1 and there were four years of college life yet before me2 but my ambition was only bigger4 ,my willingness to work and my good health were the factors which made my education possible4 ,upon my arrival at ,wesleyan ,i had a very cordial introduction to a ,hershey ,hall dishpan and we very soon became intimate4 ,in addition to the dishwashing1 ,i mowed lawns1 tended furnaces1 swept houses1 and even did family washing4 ,i was there for an education and determined to get it at any cost4 ,during my first summer vacation ,i followed the worn trail of the canvasser1 to return with some valuable experience and little profit4 ,during my second summer ,i was given employment with a ,chautauqua system as tent hand4 ,i am now serving my fifth consecutive season1 having been promoted to advance diplomat4 ,the ,chautauqua affords employment for about ten weeks during the summer and an opportunity to hear the very best talent on the ,american platform4 ,the experience in ,chautauqua work has been worth as much to me as two years or more in college4 ,i value very highly indeed the privilege of coming into personal contact with such men as ,senator ,gore1 and ,hon4 ,w4 ,j4 ,bryan4 ,while listening to these masters of the platform1 ,i conceived the idea of lecturing on my own account4 ,realizing my lack of ability to compile an original lecture1 ,i secured a note-book1 wrote down everything ,i heard4 ,after collecting for two summers ,i arranged my stories in series under the caption of 8,chips and ,whittlings40 ,i had printed a lot of advertising material1 and posing as a humorist1 ,i began my platform career4 ,some of my friends laughed at my undertaking1 while others commended my nerve2 but it was easier bread and butter than sawing wood4 ,i had to do one or the other1 so ,i stuck to the platform4 ,without serious neglect to my college work1 ,i had by the end of that school year realized a profit of three hundred dollars above expenses4 ,after another summer ,i compiled another lecture entitled 8,scrap ,iron40 ,my people did not fall over each other to hear my lectures1 yet ,i usually made good and have even filled a number of return dates4 ,i cannot remember when or how ,i received the inspiration to attain a college education4 ,i entered with a determination to win2 to win not only a degree1 but every experience possible4 ,in many ways ,i have won1 but not because of my ability2 only by hard and persistent work4 ,three times ,i represented ,iowa ,wesleyan in debate2 twenty-two times ,i fought for her laurels upon the gridiron2 and1 last year1 representing ,wesleyan in the ,iowa ,state ,oratorical ,contest1 ,i carried the purple and white to victory4 ,i served as president of the ,hamline ,literary ,society2 was for three years a member of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 ,cabinet1 one year as president2 a member of a ,gospel team2 and a student member of the ,forensic ,league4 ,in my sophomore year ,i won the debating medal4 ,in my senior year ,i was awarded the national degree in the ,pi ,kappa ,delta1 an honorary forensic fraternity4 ,i was charter member of the ,sigma ,kappa ,zeta fraternity1 which1 during my senior year1 was granted a charter by the national ,sigma ,phi ,epsilon fraternity4 ,my activities were not1 however1 confined to college alone4 ,my college life at ,iowa ,wesleyan has truly been full of many and varied experiences4 ,believing that old motto1 8,we are rewarded according to our efforts10 ,i resolved always to do my best1 and the results have not been disappointing4 ,while studying constitutes a big part of college1 yet ,i am convinced that books alone are by no means all of an education4 ,in college ,i have ever striven for the practical4 ,i now possess two degrees1 one from the college of ,liberal ,arts1 the other from the college of 8,hard ,knocks40 ,i know what ,i have2 but more than that1 ,i know the price that it cost4 ,i pride myself as being one of the fortunates who has worked his entire way through college4 ,batavia1 ,iowa4 ,a ,,smiling ,,self-,,reliance ,,rev4 ,,bishop ,,edwin ,h4 ,,hughes1 ,a4,b41 ,a4,m41 ,s4,t4,b41 ,s4,t4,d41 ,d4,d41 ,,ll4,d4 ,when ,i was nineteen years of age1 ,i concluded that it was no longer right to ask my father to continue my support while ,i was a college student4 ,it simply meant going in debt for him4 ,i preferred1 if it were necessary1 to assume the debt myself4 ,i then began to plan to maintain myself during the remaining five years of my collegiate and professional courses4 ,i was able to do this without any particular difficulty4 ,i do not have the slightest reason to pose as a hero in the transaction4 ,i made considerable money by securing the agency for a photograph gallery in a large city not very distant from the ,college4 ,i added to my funds likewise by getting out certain advertisements for a lecture course1 being paid a fair commission on all advertisements secured4 ,i preached occasionally also as a supply and received some remuneration for this work4 ,in addition to these three sources of income1 in my senior year ,i received some prize money1 which was a very great help4 ,my last two years in the theological seminary ,i was able to support myself entirely and to add very largely to my working library by taking the pastorate of a small church4 ,indeed1 while ,i was in the seminary1 ,i managed to pay off all the debt that ,i had incurred while going through college4 ,it is my deliberate opinion that the poor boy in ,america has even a better chance for an education than the wealthy boy4 ,this observation grows out of the experience of my student days1 and likewise out of my experience as a college president4 ,the poor boy is much more likely to present over the counter those higher purchase-prices than are absolutely necessary in the securing of an education4 ,given strong purpose and good health1 there is no reason why the average ,american youth should not go through college4 ,my final word on the subject would be this3 ,some young fellows who 8work their way0 through are a little too apt to do considerable whining and to put themselves in the attitude of claiming sympathy4 ,i do not believe that this mood has a good effect on character4 ,a smiling self-reliance will represent a much more winning attitude4 ,i shall be happy if these few words shall prove in the least degree inspiring to any of our ,american youth and shall add even one good life to that procession that moves toward our higher institutions of learning4 ,san ,francisco1 ,cal4 ,a ,,mother',s ,,influence ,,rev4 ,a4 ,b4 ,,kendall1 ,d4,d4 ,i am not a self-made man4 ,i doubt if any man is4 ,i guess ,i was born with a love for books4 ,i did not make that4 ,i learned to read1 so ,i have been told1 by bringing a book to my mother and asking her the names of the letters and what they spelled4 ,i recall with a pleasure1 that has never lost its peculiar charm through the years1 a visit at the home of a neighbor when ,i was not yet three years of age and the placing in my hands of a blue covered book with pictures of birds and animals in it4 ,the feeling of delight1 the thrill of joy1 the profound impression of that one day and incident have never left me4 ,i love a book still4 ,just to feel it1 let alone peruse it1 is like caressing a loved one4 ,i possess1 ,i always have possessed1 an unusually good memory4 ,i did not make that4 ,i was naturally observant4 ,no credit can accrue to me from that source4 ,i loved to learn4 ,some grammarians may differ with me in the use of the word 8love10 but let them2 ,i do not care1 it may be because they have never loved in that way4 ,i must have inherited that4 ,i was passionately fond of music4 ,another day stands out across the years as memory travels back1 when as a boy of eight or nine years of age ,i traveled from the little log cabin on the farm where ,i lived to the nearest town1 three miles away1 with a pail of blackberries on my arm which ,i peddled from door to door4 ,in my travels ,i found myself in the vicinity of a group of fine brick and stone buildings which ,i knew instinctively was the ,state ,normal ,school and from within the walls of that building there floated strains of heavenly music4 ,it may have been some pupil practicing scales1 ,i know not2 but this ,i do know1 it was celestial to me1 and ,i see that boy in poor1 shabby clothes1 but neat as mother's love could make them1 barefooted1 tired1 dusty1 standing there with the big tears running down his cheeks1 his heart filled with an inexpressionable longing to be able to play like that1 and with it a desire to go to school and obtain an education4 ,i did not make that desire4 ,and then at the back of and under and through all the woof of every man's life1 if he be not blind1 he can see1 or if he be not dishonest and will acknowledge it1 there ever runs the warp of the wonderful influences of other lives and the strange providential guidings which do more than anything else to make men and women4 ,supreme among these influences1 as in most men's lives1 was the influence of my sainted mother1 whose self-sacrifice for her boy1 who so many times was so unworthy of it1 has been the most potent factor in helping me achieve whatever of real success ,i may have attained4 ,my mother was a widow left with six children1 five of whom were at home4 ,the youngest was a girl less than two years of age1 another was under four1 and ,i was not yet six years of age4 ,we moved at the time of her widowhood from the city to my grandfather's farm4 ,grandfather had died and grandmother was left with no one to care for the farm4 ,my brother and ,i were the farmers4 ,he was fifteen years of age and ,i was about six4 ,the country school was a mile and a half from our home4 ,i went winters rather irregularly1 for the cold weather and deep snows of northwestern ,pennsylvania in those days made it well-nigh impossible to attend regularly4 ,in the summer there was the farm work which prevented my getting the benefit of the summer term4 ,but ,i studied and read not with any definite aim1 but just because ,i liked to study and read4 ,grandmother's death and the sale of the old farm when ,i was about eleven years of age1 left the mother with nothing but her bare hands to support her growing family4 ,i went to work on a farm and the outlook for an education was anything but reassuring4 ,i still continued to get some schooling at the little country school during the winter4 ,the summer that ,i was fifteen ,i was working in the garden of the pastor of the little ,christian church1 which ,i attended1 and he told in the neighborhood that he had found a diamond in the rough4 ,i have never questioned the latter part of that statement as applied to me1 but have always felt that the good old man's vision must have been somewhat impaired by his years4 ,however that may be1 he resolved to see if some way could not be devised for polishing the rough specimen4 ,soon after this he retired from the active ministry and went to live in the town of ,yellow ,springs1 ,ohio4 ,at this place the ,christian denomination had a college known as ,antioch ,college4 ,one day our little family was thrown into excitement by a letter from the afore-mentioned pastor1 the ,rev4 ,joseph ,weeks1 saying that he had procured for my mother the position of cook for the college boarding club and an opportunity for me and my sister1 next younger than ,i1 to work our way through school4 ,after much deliberation and many councils1 it was finally decided that we go4 ,that was a happy time for me4 ,the impressions which crowded thick and fast into my life at this time can never be erased or forgotten4 ,the wonderful journey1 the great stone building1 the dormitories1 the beautiful campus1 the teachers1 and the dear old library4 ,oh1 the library was best of all4 ,on my arrival ,i went to work in the dining-room4 ,it was my duty to fill the water glasses on the tables before each meal and then to assist in clearing the tables at the close of each meal and to help in the washing of the dishes4 ,i also carried coal and water for the kitchen4 ,i spent one happy year there and ,i do not think that my teachers during the nine months that ,i was under their training and polishing ever discovered any diamond-like qualities about me except the roughness4 ,overtaxed with the work1 mother's health broke and we were forced to leave4 ,it was a bitter disappointment to me4 ,i1 as the oldest at home1 felt that ,i must try to do something to help care for the rest of the family4 ,then came days of darkness and struggle4 ,i could find no work4 ,finally a farmer1 taking advantage of my desperate condition1 hired me for the munificent salary of six dollars per month4 ,at one time during this period ,i walked twenty miles to the city of ,erie and hunted for work as faithfully as ,i knew how to look for work in a great city1 but found none1 and was forced to walk back again disheartened1 only to be told by a penurious relative where ,i had been staying that 8,i had not tried to get work40 ,i hope ,god has forgiven him4 ,i believe ,i have1 but it still hurts when ,i think of it4 ,then ,i walked fifty miles to the city of ,ashtabula1 ,ohio1 stopping at the towns on the way1 in some of which ,i had acquaintances1 and tried to find work1 but without avail4 ,finally1 finding myself in the city friendless1 homeless1 penniless1 night came on and ,i crept under a sidewalk hungry and thoroughly disheartened1 and slept4 ,in the morning somewhat rested ,i walked to a neighboring town where a cousin of my mother's resided2 there ,i got a dinner and a good night's rest4 ,from there ,i journeyed back home4 ,but the darkest day will have its dawning and the longest lane its turning1 and that fall again the way opened and ,i entered the ,old ,waterford ,academy at ,waterford1 ,pa4 ,here ,i did janitor work the first year1 in the ,academy1 and earned what extra money ,i could around the town by splitting wood and doing odd jobs during my leisure hours4 ,the second year ,i obtained the janitorship of the graded school4 ,by dint of hard work1 carrying seven studies each term1 ,i completed the three years' course in two years1 graduating in #ahhi4 ,then ,i felt that on account of my mother and sisters ,i could not remain longer in school1 but must look after them1 which ,i did until the death of my mother and the marriage of my sisters4 ,during these years ,i had varied experience1 working at shoveling dirt on the streets of ,erie1 unloading lumber barges at the docks1 as attendant in the ,state ,hospital for the ,insane1 teaching school1 driving a team in the lumber woods as a lumber jack1 working three years at printing1 two years in a general agency of fire insurance1 as secretary of ,young ,men's ,christian ,association and physical director of same1 and finally1 entering the ministry4 ,after the death of my mother and after someone else had relieved me of responsibility for the care of my sisters1 ,i felt the need of further preparation for the work to which ,i had been called4 ,i felt that ,i was too old to attempt a college course1 and decided that if it were possible ,i would like to take a course in the ,moody ,bible ,school at ,chicago4 ,i did not have the money to do this1 but felt that some way would open4 ,god almost miraculously opened a way1 and ,i became director of the religious and club work for men and boys in a social settlement in ,chicago where the salary was sufficient to aid me in doing this very well4 ,thus ,i was able to graduate from the ,moody ,bible ,institute1 the best school ,i know of for the training of ,christian workers4 ,i would like to say to any young man or woman1 anywhere1 ,i can think of but two things that need stand in your way of getting a thorough school training4 ,one is1 health so poor that you cannot attain it1 or the care of others which may demand your time and energies to such an extent that you cannot devote either to the pursuit of knowledge4 ,to such let me say that there are lessons to be learned under these circumstances of equal value with the training of the schools1 and the curriculum of no school1 college or university can furnish them4 ,your loss will not be without its compensation4 ,if you meet the disappointments cheerily1 bravely1 and strive to make the most of life and learn your lessons from the school in which you are ever being trained1 the great school of life1 you will grow into a broader1 deeper1 tenderer1 nobler man or woman4 ,it is not so much poverty and environment that will keep boys and girls from an education as it is lack of vision1 desire1 determination1 perseverance4 ,i am not at all anxious about the boy or girl who has these qualities4 ,they will succeed in the great race of life1 if upheld by a strong moral purpose at the back of it all4 ,it is the boy or girl who1 having the advantages1 the opportunity1 the means for an education1 has not the vision1 the desire1 the purpose1 that needs our sympathy and anxious thought4 ,burlington1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,riches ,,more ,,of ,a ,,handicap ,,than ,,poverty ,,walter ,p4 ,,lawrence1 ,a4,m41 ,,litt4,d41 ,,dean ,,of ,,men ,,of ,,elon ,,college ,early in ,september1 #ahij1 ,i arrived at ,elon ,college about a week after the opening of the first session of the ,college4 ,i had in money and other resources that ,i could turn into money less than #ajj4 ,my purpose was to stay until my money gave out--perhaps ,i could get on by supplementing it with odd jobs until well on into the spring4 ,it was my ambition to be a teacher in an academy or high school4 ,i felt that to rub my elbows against college walls a few months1 at least1 would eminently satisfy my ideal of preparation4 ,well1 that was a wonderful #ajj4 ,it opened doors1 revealed vistas1 heightened ideals1 increased the tension of life until since the day ,i entered college ,i have lived in a different world4 ,the ,college was young--had no traditions1 casts or cliques among its membership4 ,as a subfreshman ,i was allowed to possess my soul in peace and live my life as leisurely or as diligently as ,i pleased4 ,i chose soon after getting into the college current to live as diligently as possible4 ,i meant to make the freshman year and the substudies also while my money lasted4 ,i succeeded4 ,by the time my money was gone--about the first of ,april1 #ahia--;a long vista of a complete college course had burst invitingly before me with 8graduation0 in letters of fire at the end4 ,what should ,i do8 ,i was penniless1 and knew no one from whom ,i could borrow4 ,i had been reared1 the son of a country minister1 in a back section1 sometimes called 8backwoods10 where life was pure but simple and easy-going4 ,everybody was poor1 and a college bred man a curiosity4 ,having grown to manhood under such conditions1 ,i felt keenly the struggle now going on between poverty and the newly awakened ambitions in my life4 ,but there was nothing to do but to accept the inevitable4 ,the situation1 ,i kept to myself4 ,i felt it a disgrace to be penniless amongst many who seemed to have abundance2 so ,i kept my troubles to myself until ,i was about to leave1 when to my surprise1 ,mr4 ,tom ,strowd1 with whom and his excellent family ,i had boarded1 offered to credit my board account until the end of the session4 ,another gentleman1 ,mr4 ,p4 ,a4 ,long1 offered to give me a job of carpenter work during vacation4 ,the results were1 ,i finished the session on the strength of credit with people1 all of whom were strangers to me when ,i came to the college4 ,the carpenter work in the summer and of afternoons and ,saturdays until late in the fall1 together with more credit on college expenses in the spring1 got me through the sophomore year4 ,the severe strain of working my way and keeping up my studies threw me into a fever in the late fall1 which lasted several weeks1 and it was with difficulty that ,i passed my work in college4 ,at commencement1 however1 ,i had put the sophomore year behind me with a fair record1 and the burning letters 8graduation0 were perceptibly nearer than a year ago1 yet ,i was almost as near out of debt as then4 ,this summer ,i taught school at ,cedar ,falls1 a little manufacturing town in ,randolph ,county1 ,n4 ,c4 ,while here ,i fell under the kindly interest of the wealthiest man of the town1 ,mr4 ,o4 ,r4 ,cox1 who1 after learning something of how ,i had made my way thus far1 offered to lend me such sums of money as ,i should need to get through the next two years4 ,the remaining two years went smoothly along4 ,i was in good health and supplemented the loans from ,mr4 ,cox with what ,i could earn by various kinds of self-help2 for ,i borrowed as little as possible4 ,these two last years were filled with work and many gratifications also1 for the literary society and the religious organizations gave me what honors they had to bestow4 ,i was president of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a41 was sent to ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 conferences and conventions2 was teacher in the ,sunday ,school and later superintendent4 ,i represented the literary society several times1 twice at commencement1 and other times in public debates4 ,i was the valedictorian of my class on ,commencement ,day1 and on the same day was offered a position in the ,english department1 with privilege to prepare myself for the place by university study4 ,i have1 therefore1 supplemented my college course by special study in the ,university of ,north ,carolina1 ,yale1 and ,oxford4 ,it is trying and positively discouraging many times for one to have to make his own way through college4 ,the experience has put the conviction in me1 however1 that the young person appearing at the threshold of a college course is more seriously handicapped if he has too much money than he who has none at all4 ,elon ,college1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,the ,,will ,,and ,,the ,,way ,,rev4 ,,roy ,,mccuskey1 ,a4,b41 ,s4,t4,b4 ,i had a great desire for an education4 ,this desire was the outcome of two strong convictions--that my place in the world's work was to be in the ministry of the ,gospel2 that ,i could never render the best service in that capacity without a thorough education4 ,when ,i was ten years old my mother was left a widow4 ,father bequeathed to his wife and children a noble character1 but no estate4 ,i early learned the lessons of industry and frugality1 and these combined with some native determination1 made the venture of securing a college course at the age of eighteen rather easy4 ,i was not afraid to work1 nor to suffer4 ,i was a stranger to the faculty and student body4 ,moreover1 ,i was a stranger to college ways1 so my first step was to borrow enough money to put me through at least part of the first year4 ,i found some janitor work that year4 ,it helped1 but not much4 ,the next summer ,i worked in a grocery store1 and when the term opened in the fall1 ,i was back with a little money and plenty of nerve4 ,during the second year more janitor work occupied my spare hours until the spring when ,i organized a boarding club1 and remained as manager of that for the next two years4 ,this partly paid my board1 but room rent1 tuition1 and clothing were to be provided4 ,each summer ,i sought employment4 ,one vacation was spent in a tin can factory2 another in the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a41 as an assistant secretary2 another in doing my first preaching in a schoolhouse in the outskirts of the city of ,wheeling4 ,i had to do almost three full years of preparatory work1 and my work was so irregular that ,i scarcely had a 8class0 until my senior year in college4 ,through the kindness of the faculty1 ,i was permitted to do some work during vacation1 pass examinations at the fall opening1 and receive credits4 ,i thus made my full course in economics4 ,the first money which ,i had borrowed was long overdue1 although ,i had kept the interest paid4 ,the note called for settlement1 so after ,i had been in the struggle for four years1 ,i asked for an appointment at the fall conference of our church and was sent to a circuit that paid #ejj4 ,i served it for one year out of school4 ,i felt more than ever desirous to finish my education1 so ,i made preparations to return to college the next fall4 ,the officials of the churches which ,i had been serving made it possible for me to return to them while carrying the regular work in my studies4 ,pastoral work was not demanded1 and each week ,i traveled something over two hundred miles on the railroad1 going to and from these churches1 or rather1 the station nearest the churches1 and then walking from five to ten miles and preaching three times on ,sunday4 ,this was hard on the purse and the pulse1 so the next year ,i asked for churches nearer the college4 ,i got them4 ,a job lot of them at that--just eight1 with an extra preaching place tacked on6 ,what ,i lost in railroad mileage1 ,i gained in foot travel1 beautiful mountain scenery1 and good atmosphere4 ,in ,june1 #aijh1 ,i received the bachelor of arts degree1 and in ,september of the same year entered ,boston ,university ,school of ,theology1 from which ,i was graduated in ,june1 #aiaa4 ,my expenses were met here by preaching in a small church on the south shore of ,cape ,cod4 ,with all my working ,i needed more money than ,i could earn1 and the only resort was borrowing1 which ,i did from my life insurance company1 and from the board of education of the ,methodist ,episcopal ,church4 ,in all1 ,i have spent nine full years in college and seminary work with a fairly good record in studies1 and received no help except from my own labor4 ,having the will1 ,i made the way4 ,shinnston1 ,w4 ,va4 ,,keep ,,good ,,company ,,professor ,m4 ,a4 ,,mcleod1 ,a4,b4 ,being the son of an invalid mother and a ,confederate soldier who received a wound that permanently disabled him1 ,i did not attend school but five months till ,i was twenty-one years of age4 ,believing that education is to agriculture1 commerce1 society1 professions1 government1 and ,christianity what the sunshine and the rain are to the vegetable kingdom1 and what ,christ is to those who believe on ,him1 ,i decided to try to cultivate the mind of myself and as many others as ,i could4 ,when ,i left home1 ,i had one dollar4 8,keep good company1 and may ,god bless you10 were the words which my mother gave me4 ,by the time ,i had secured work1 ,i had spent my dollar1 but held on to the advice1 which did me more good than all the gold of ,california would have done me4 ,i was willing to do any honest thing to educate myself4 ,i plowed1 cooked1 walked four miles to school1 worked on ,saturdays and during vacation1 drove a wagon1 rang bells1 studied fifteen hours every twenty-four1 and taught school4 ,broadway1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,the ,,democracy ,,of ,a ,,college ,,hon4 ,,edwin ,g4 ,,moon1 ,,ph4,b41 ,b4,l4 ,i finished preparatory school in ,june1 #ahia1 and was in debt4 ,i taught a district school during the following season1 paid the debt1 and then taught another year in the preparatory itself4 ,in the fall of #ahic ,i had accumulated about #aej4 ,i had previously decided to enter the ,university as soon as ,i could1 and in ,september ,i went to ,iowa ,city with what cash ,i had and became a freshman4 ,at that time ,i did not know how ,i should be able to sustain myself during the year1 but proposed to remain there as long as ,i could and not to leave until ,i was compelled to do so by physical necessities4 ,in those days board was a good deal cheaper than now1 and clubs furnished the necessaries of life for #b4ej a week and the room cost us #f a month1 which sum was divided between myself and room-mate4 ,along toward ,christmas the necessity of purchasing a number of things that ,i could not figure on before1 in the way of clothing and supplies1 made it obvious that my funds would be exhausted long before the spring vacation of my freshman year4 ,i had previously been looking around for a place to earn part of my expenses and finally secured a job as a waiter at a restaurant4 ,in this manner ,i cut off the weekly expense for meals1 as my meals were furnished at the restaurant as compensation for my services4 ,aside from this my expenses remained the same4 ,i finished that year with some money to spare and invested something in an outfit to enable me to earn money in the sale of stereoscopic views4 ,the summer of #ahic was exceeding dry and times were very hard and this venture proved an expensive failure4 ,at the end of three weeks from the time ,i started my money was gone and ,i had to get back home and start into something else4 ,i finally got a job of looking after the insane patients at the ,poor ,farm at #be a month and went back to the ,university with about #ej4 ,the second year was the hardest ,i had at the ,university1 and1 in fact1 ,i had to borrow #ajj1 which ,i secured from an old gentleman to whom ,i was a stranger1 but to whom ,i was recommended by several students4 ,i had realized the necessity1 from previous experience1 of looking ahead for employment1 and so when the spring vacation came ,i had got a job in the ,university library which ,i think paid me #b4jj a day1 and in addition thereto ,i was janitor for the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 building and also for one of the churches4 ,the janitor work ,i did at night4 ,this work ,i carried through the summer1 managing still to do the work at the restaurant1 which was light during the summer1 but which paid for my meals4 ,this gave me ample funds to begin my junior year4 ,in the fall of that year ,i found an opportunity to write editorials for a local paper1 which paid me #e4jj a week1 so that ,i was able to quit the restaurant work4 ,i was able to pay something on the loan that year1 although not very much4 ,this work on the newspaper ,i continued as long as ,i was in the ,university and it finally was the means of my finishing there in #ahig4 ,i was a little in debt when ,i finished the course1 but had another year yet in school before ,i could be admitted to the bar4 ,i concluded to go to the city where ,i could get some business experience in a law office aside from training in school4 ,so ,i went to ,chicago and got a job in a law office at #e4jj a week1 and attended a night school4 ,previous experience had taught me that the bare necessities of life do not cost so very much4 ,i refunded the loan that ,i had secured while at the ,university and got #ej more4 ,by securing a room that was large enough for three of us at ,chicago1 and which in addition had an alcove with a gas stove in it1 where we could prepare part of our meals1 ,i found living inexpensive4 ,after finishing the law school there1 ,i remained a year working in a law office during the day and in the ,crerar ,library at night1 until ,i had sufficient funds to pay all of my debts and to come back to ,iowa and pay a few months' rent for an office4 ,i began business in my present location in that manner and have continued there ever since4 ,in #aijf ,i went to the ,state ,senate as a representative of this district1 and there found as colleagues five boys whom ,i had known at the ,university4 ,two of them had supported themselves while at the ,university by work similar to mine4 ,one of them was janitor of a church and the other had been a waiter at a restaurant4 ,i cannot say that ,i regard the experience as involving any great hardship4 ,i never felt at any time1 while ,i was at the ,university1 that this employment which was obligatory was of any disadvantage to me1 except that it took more time than ,i wished to devote to work4 ,my experience is that there is more of a democratic spirit in universities and colleges than is found elsewhere in the world4 ,such work as ,i did could have been done by any able-bodied student1 and ,i am quite certain it never would prove disadvantageous to his social standing4 ,i believe that if ,i had it to do over again ,i could do the same thing to better advantage4 ,while expenses are now higher than they were1 compensation for labor is also a good deal higher and employment is much more easily found than during the years from #ahic to #ahig4 ,the question as to whether a collegiate education is available to every young man in this country ,i think is entirely dependent upon the question as to whether it is desired4 ,i have no doubt that the experiences of many whom ,i knew at the ,university1 which experiences were similar to mine1 could be duplicated in almost any of the larger institutions of the country4 ,ottumwa1 ,iowa4 ,,obeying ,,the ,,call ,,rev4 ,j4 ,f4 ,,morgan1 ,a4,b4 ,when ,i was about fifteen years of age ,i was converted and joined ,big ,oak ,christian ,church in ,moore ,county1 ,north ,carolina4 ,at the age of about seventeen ,i felt the divine call into the gospel ministry4 ,i made known to the ,lord my willingness to obey the heavenly vision4 ,but ,i could not see how ,i could prepare myself for so great a work as ,i did not have any money4 ,neither was my father able to help me in a financial way4 ,i was then working at public work and the money that ,i earned was being used to help support the large family to which ,i belonged1 there being nine boys and four girls in our family4 ,however1 ,i told my father of my desires and how that ,i desired to become a preacher some day4 ,he told me that if ,i could make my own way through school he would let me go then1 even though ,i had not reached the age of my freedom4 ,i appreciated this kindness of my father very much4 ,he was always good to us boys1 and so was mother4 ,but they were poor and ,i knew they needed my wages1 at least until ,i was twenty-one4 ,i knew ,i was no better than my other brothers1 and ,i also knew that my father was not able to treat us all so nicely as to let us quit working for him before we were twenty-one years old4 ,hence ,i felt it best to work on with him until ,i reached that age1 which ,i did4 ,on my twenty-first birthday the 8boss man0 paid me off and ,i carried the money to my father and gave it to him4 ,i then began to work for myself and to plan to go to school4 ,i worked at a shingle mill for two months1 saving in that time about #cj4jj4 ,i then left home for school4 ,i had about fifteen dollars when ,i got to the first school ,i attended which was ,why ,not ,academy in ,randolph ,county1 ,n4 ,c41 it being conducted at that time by ,professor ,g4 ,f4 ,garner4 ,here ,i kept 8bachelor's hall10 doing my own cooking and cutting wood on ,saturdays to help defray my expenses4 ,while here ,i began to correspond with the ,president of ,elon ,college1 ,elon ,college1 ,n4 ,c4 ,this institution belongs to my own denomination and ,i decided that ,i wanted to study there4 ,i had no money with which to pay my expenses1 but ,i had some good friends who loaned me enough money to start to college on4 ,so ,i entered ,elon ,college4 ,i was timid1 dull1 and embarrassed1 but ,i know ,god had called me to a great work and that call included a preparation4 ,i was willing to make the sacrifice4 ,those things with which ,i busied myself in the afternoons were chopping wood1 cutting corn1 and cleaning off the town cemetery4 ,i kept up this work for the first year4 ,the second year my conference licensed me to preach and ,i was called as pastor of two churches4 ,after this ,i made my way through college by doing pastoral work4 ,it was hard on me1 but ,i believe it was ,god's way of helping me through college4 ,my college career was one of hard work and much toil4 ,in fact it was a miracle that ,i got through at all4 ,and ,i am convinced that if a man has a noble purpose prompting him to strive for an education1 he can get it4 ,elon ,college1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,determination ,,and ,,steadfastness ,,wins4 ,j4 ,r4 ,,mosley1 ,l4,i41 ,b4,s41 ,m4,s41 ,,ph4,d4 ,my observation and experience has been that anyone who is anxious enough for a knowledge and culture to be willing to sacrifice false pride1 and do well whatever his hands find to do that needs doing1 can easily go through college1 and even take advanced university training4 ,it is not so much a question of money as desire1 determination and steadfastness4 ,the only exception is where one is bound by higher duties1 such as caring for parents1 or any call from the ,divine that is direct and immediate4 ,when ,i started to college in the fall of #ahhi1 ,i only had1 of my own making1 a little more than enough money to buy necessary clothing and railroad fare from ,statesville1 ,n4 ,c41 to ,nashville1 ,tenn4 ,i had stood the competitive examination for a scholarship at ,peabody ,college for ,teachers and that paid two hundred dollars a year in addition to free tuition4 ,major ,finger1 who was then ,superintendent of ,education for ,north ,carolina1 wrote me that while others had won the scholarships open to ,north ,carolina for that year1 ,i was prepared to enter the sophomore class at ,peabody1 and that if ,i would pay my expenses one year1 he would1 upon the recommendation of the ,president1 appoint me to a scholarship which would be good for two years4 ,when mother saw my heart was set on going to college1 she said1 8,rufus shall go if we have to sell the creek field40 ,as ,i was the fourth child of a family of eight children1 and as we were not through paying for the whole farm1 ,i could not accept such a sacrifice4 ,when ,i told ,mr4 ,r4 ,g4 ,franklin of ,elkin1 ,n4 ,c41 of ,major ,finger's offer1 he said he would be one of three men to lend #ej4jj each4 ,col4 ,a4 ,b4 ,galoway of ,elkin1 and ,mr4 ,james ,bates1 near ,capps ,mill1 joined him in furnishing the strictly necessary money for the first year4 ,father stood my security1 and he and ,col4 ,galoway and ,mr4 ,bates have gone where such unselfish goodness and generous faith are fully appreciated and rewarded4 ,only ,mr4 ,franklin lives for me to thank and bless for his faith and helping hand when both were so much needed4 ,the good mother still lives1 and has increasing joy and hope in life1 and all of her children rise up and call her blessed4 ,during the first year at ,peabody we had a short vacation in ,february1 and ,i went out as an experimental book agent4 ,i found that as trying as it was on the agent as well as the people1 ,i could make money as a canvasser4 ,sometime in the spring ,dr4 ,payne1 ,president of ,peabody1 recommended me for a scholarship1 and ,major ,finger gave me the appointment4 ,this ,i held for two years until ,i received my bachelor's degree4 ,the summer vacations were all employed in canvassing or collecting1 and ,i became a good enough collector for a publishing house at ,nashville to pay me #gj4jj a month and expenses4 ,apart from my strict loyalty to my employer and hard work1 ,i regret this part of my life1 for ,i have seen for a long time that the selling of even ,bibles to the poor at high prices on the seductive installment plan1 is a form of business that is not righteous enough even to use as a means for getting an education4 ,as the true light breaks upon us1 we can do nothing that is not necessary1 right and beneficent4 ,during the first three years at ,nashville1 ,i received on scholarship1 made by summer work and saved enough money to pay back all ,i had borrowed for the first year and to take one year's graduate work at ,nashville4 ,my expenses had been considerably increased on account of rather poor general health and the loss of time and expense of three spells of sickness while ,i was canvassing or collecting4 ,being prominent in college life1 and having too much of the pride for the finest and most sensible economy1 also caused my expenses to be more than were strictly necessary4 ,indeed false pride has been my expensive weakness and has stood most in the way of a life in strict harmony with reason1 love and the spirit of truth4 ,before ,i had taken my master's degree at ,nashville1 ,i was offered a fellowship in the ,wharton ,school of ,finance of the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 that paid #afj4jj a year1 the necessary university expenses4 ,but ,i had my heart set on going to the ,university of ,chicago4 ,president ,harper told that they would do as well by me as the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 so ,i entered there as a graduate student in #ahic1 the year of the ,world's ,fair at ,chicago4 ,i got to see much of the exposition during its last month without harm to my class work4 ,i was given work as an assistant in the library1 which called for cutting leaves of new books and magazines1 putting the library stamp upon them1 and carrying them to the departmental libraries4 ,i was also an assistant in one of the departmental libraries4 ,a dear college friend and professor at ,nashville1 ,mr4 ,a4 ,p4 ,bourland1 gave me such aid as was necessary until ,i received a fellowship that paid me #cbj4jj a year4 ,the fellowship was awarded by ,professor ,harry ,pratt ,judson1 now the president of the ,university4 ,a short time after receiving this fellowship ,i was offered a professorship at ,mercer ,university1 ,macon1 ,georgia1 and the way was open for me to continue my education as a teacher and as a student as long as ,i cared4 ,for two years it was arranged for me to teach at ,mercer half of the year and spend the other at the ,university of ,chicago1 where ,i taught one class and continued my work as a student4 ,the third year ,i taught six months at ,mercer and spent the spring semester at ,heidelberg1 ,germany4 ,the following year ,i taught about seven months at ,mercer1 and went to ,harvard for the closing lectures of the spring term and for the summer work4 ,before the sixth year of my work at ,mercer had closed1 ,i was told by ,chancellor ,hill of the ,university of ,georgia1 that with my consent he would go before the board of trustees and recommend the creation of a new chair1 the character of which would be determined largely by preferences1 and he would recommend me to fill it4 ,as inviting as it was ,i declined the generous offer1 and in a short time resigned my position at ,mercer for the quest of health1 truth and the larger freedom along the lines of study and activity4 ,macon1 ,georgia4 ,,making ,,oneself ,,useful ,,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,,nelson1 ,b4,a41 ,m4,a41 ,,th4,m41 ,,th4,d41 ,,ph4,d4 ,i was the oldest of a large family of children4 ,my father had no income1 save what he made on a small farm1 and a little corn1 flour1 meat and other produce with a dollar now and then1 which he received for full time pastoring two or three churches4 ,the district schools where we lived were poorly equipped and managed1 and ran only a few months each year4 ,until ,i was thirteen years old ,i got the best these schools could give4 ,but with a growing family without a corresponding growth in my father's income1 at thirteen1 to aid in the support of the family1 ,i was forced to give up my schooling and do mill work when ,i was not working on the farm4 ,all ,i had learned up to that time was reading1 writing and a little arithmetic4 ,since the nature of my work did not require that ,i keep up my writing and arithmetic1 ,i soon forgot both4 ,but the thirst to know about things and people caused me to read all my spare time4 ,my father himself was a college-trained man4 ,he worked hard on the farm or elsewhere all the week and preached every ,sunday1 never faltering in spirit4 ,but sometimes he would fail in strength of body4 ,though he never complained1 ,i could often see that hurt look on his face4 ,this was caused by the financial depression which followed ,cleveland's administration1 the covetousness of the people he served and other circumstances1 which were depriving him of giving his children the educational advantages enjoyed by the children of those whom he served4 ,all this time ,i was longing for an education1 and saw the disadvantage to which the lack of it was placing me4 ,my father would each year promise me that the next year ,i could go to school4 ,but when the time came ,i would have to stay and work and let the younger children go or let a note on a new schoolhouse1 a new church house or ,howard ,college1 at ,birmingham1 ,ala41 be paid4 ,the fortitude of my father1 that look on his face1 the rainbow promise that some day ,i should even go to ,howard ,college1 and the thought that ,i was helping him care for the others and keep my sisters and younger brothers in school1 made it easier for me4 ,but many times ,i bathed my pillow with tears till the tired body forced sleep1 all because ,i could not go to school like my boy companions4 ,thus ,i toiled on until ,i was nearly eighteen years old4 ,my body was already stooping with toil1 my hands hard and horny4 ,i had forgotten how to write4 ,i knew not how to figure1 except a little 8in my head40 ,but still ,i read4 ,this only increased my thirst for an education4 ,at last the promised rainbow now appeared just ahead4 ,next year ,i was going back to school4 ,and ,i was to stay there till ,i had finished at ,howard ,college4 ,but again my father failed me because others failed him4 ,i did not get to go4 ,this was my severest disappointment1 and but for a move my father made it would have been almost unbearable4 ,this time he resolved to sell his little home and go ,west to try life all over again4 ,we moved to ,texas into a frontier section where there were not even at that time the small school advantages back in ,alabama4 ,it took all the little home brought to get us out ,west4 ,we had to start again from the very bottom4 ,the second year my father bought a piece of undeveloped land4 ,for five years ,i stayed with him1 helping him to make sure a home for him1 mother and the children4 ,his health was fast breaking by this time4 ,for the first three years there was no opportunity for schooling4 ,i was by that time twenty-one years old1 too old for free tuition1 and ,i had no money4 ,the winter of the fourth year ,i had one month of a breathing spell which brought to me an opportunity4 ,my father told me of six acres of very fine land he wished opened and if ,i could get it cleared ,i might have all it made4 ,meantime the trustees of a little district school two miles away needed some wood for the school and offered to take it as tuition4 ,so here was my chance4 ,during the day ,i went to school1 furnishing wood for tuition4 ,after school hours and at night1 by the light from burning brush1 ,i cleared the land4 ,it made three bales of cotton1 the proceeds of which ,i saved for my future education4 ,the next year ,i hired to my father for ten dollars a month and my board4 ,this money ,i also added to my schooling fund4 ,the following winter ,i got another month schooling at the little district school1 again furnishing wood in payment for tuition4 ,i again hired to my father for twelve dollars and fifty cents a month1 saving every cent ,i could4 ,things were now getting easier at home4 ,our new home was paid for4 ,the land was very fertile4 ,my father's health was much better4 ,many settlers were coming in4 ,a good district school was being developed4 ,most of my brothers and sisters were getting the free schooling4 ,some of my older sisters were being sent away to school4 ,i was now nearly twenty-three4 ,i had taken advantage of what ,i had4 ,the little school where ,i had gone for a month each of the two preceding winters was not a graded school4 ,this had made it a little less embarrassing for me4 ,for fear the teacher would hold me back1 ,i had carried a copy-book in my pocket without his knowledge1 that ,i might the sooner learn to make the letters of the alphabet4 ,i had learned how to use figures up to common fractions and how to spell a few simple words4 ,with the exception of these two months' schooling it had now been about ten years since ,i left the schoolroom1 ten years of the best part of my life for acquiring an education--from thirteen to twenty-three4 ,but after this added waiting and hoping of a little over five more years1 my rainbow again appeared as from a sudden burst of sunlight on a receding cloud4 ,my chance had at last come and ,i was going to use it4 ,it came in this fashion3 ,it was one ,march day just after the noon hour ,i had started to the field1 when there came to me a letter from the principal of a boarding school which had both a graded and high school department4 ,he wanted someone to live with him and do his chores for board while attending the school4 ,the crop was started1 and1 of course1 to leave at this time would disconcert my father and his plans for the year4 ,but there were only a little over two more school months in that session4 ,and if ,i would go then ,i could have the place as long as ,i wished it4 ,if not1 someone else might take it and my chance would be gone4 ,my father saw the opportunity for me and acquiesced4 ,with the money ,i had saved and this opportunity to work for my board1 ,i now left home and began my schooling in earnest4 ,i entered this school in the low sixth grade4 ,however1 having a strong body and willing mind1 ,i carried eight studies while the others carried only four4 ,in the two remaining months of that session and the two following years ,i completed the high school course4 ,i graduated with honors1 was valedictorian1 and received the faculty medal for the highest grades made in school my senior year4 ,the week following the close of school ,i passed an examination for a county teacher's certificate4 ,but to do all this ,i had to work4 ,for my board in that home1 ,i had all the wood to cut1 water to draw1 fires to make1 garden and yard to keep1 horses and cow to care for1 fences1 etc41 to repair and many other odds and ends to do4 ,in order to prepare my school work ,i did not retire till ten and arose again at three or four1 getting only from five to six hours' sleep out of the twenty-four4 ,there is one little incident connected with my stay in this school that might be worth mentioning1 as it shows how ,i met one of the greatest difficulties which a young man just entering school at my age has to meet4 ,as ,i have said1 ,i entered this school at the age of twenty-three in the low sixth grade4 ,those in my classes were children about twelve and thirteen years old4 ,you can imagine how ,i felt1 a big awkward young man twenty-three years old in classes composed mostly of little children from ten to twelve years younger4 ,but my embarrassment was intensified when one day a little twelve-year-old girl made fun of the way ,i was trying to work an example in common fractions4 ,i felt hurt2 ,i closed my book and quietly walked to my seat4 ,a cousin of mine was teaching the class4 ,she caught the look on my face and saw that it was not that of rebellion1 but that ,i was only hurt1 embarrassed1 and was trying to conquer4 ,i shall never forget the kind look she gave me1 as she said1 8,will1 you are excused1 if you wish to go40 ,her remark was not only a rebuke to that member of the class1 but it helped me to conquer4 ,i took my books and went to my room resolved to show this little girl that1 8,he laughs best who laughs last40 ,and ,i did4 ,when ,i started she was almost a grade in advance of me4 ,but ,i finished one year ahead of her with honors while she hardly got through a year later4 ,i had been working heretofore during the summer vacation months that ,i might be able to return to school each winter4 ,but as ,i was to teach the coming winter1 ,i spent the summer studying at the ,north ,texas ,state ,normal1 ,denton1 ,texas4 ,to do this1 ,i now for the first time borrowed money1 fifty dollars1 from a friend of mine1 a banker1 who had once struggled for his education4 ,he had been watching me and gladly came to my help and voluntarily offered all the money ,i needed4 ,with this fifty dollars ,i was able to take the summer normal course4 ,at the close of it ,i passed an examination for a state teacher's certificate which entitled me to teach in any of the public schools in the ,state4 ,on returning home ,i was given the home school where four years before ,i had learned to figure and write1 paying for my tuition with wood4 ,the salary was forty dollars per month and the length of session was now six months4 ,this seemed like a big salary to one who had never before received more than twelve dollars and fifty cents per month4 ,but it was not the salary1 it was the opportunity that ,i now saw further to pursue my studies and to instill something of the same spirit and enthusiasm in others1 that now meant so much to me4 ,i had once hoped for no more than the mere knowledge of how to read and write and figure1 which this little district school had in former days given me4 ,but with that knowledge had come a broader vision and the ability and opportunity to pursue that vision--that of getting a high school education4 ,and now ,i had reached that goal1 had gone to the state normal and held from the ,state a recognition of the right and ability to pursue this still greater vision of giving knowledge and inspiration to others1 how could ,i ever wish or hope for more8 ,but it chanced that that very summer my rainbow again moved out just ahead of me4 ,i attended a district ,baptist association4 ,dr4 ,s4 ,p4 ,brooks1 president of ,baylor ,university1 was there and made a speech on education4 ,here ,i heard how he had once been a section hand on a railroad4 ,and now he was the president of a university1 and with a great heart was telling me and others how we needed that college and how it really needed us as instruments through which to bless the world4 ,oh6 ,that was almost another world's message to me4 ,my vision again broadened4 ,the rainbow of my boyhood days again appeared4 ,i did not get to talk to this man4 ,i was half-way afraid of him or revered him4 ,but ,i did not need to talk to him4 ,i had heard him and he had inspired me4 ,i returned to my home with new hopes and soon formed new plans4 ,i would work hard till the opening of my school to pay off the fifty dollars ,i had borrowed4 ,then ,i would save all that ,i made teaching that session that ,i might go to college the next4 ,yes1 ,i wanted to be faithful to my former vision and purpose to teach that school4 ,but at the same time ,i would make it a stepping stone to something higher4 ,but ,i was prevented from doing this4 ,just about two weeks before my school was to open1 a preacher from a near town came to me and asked me if ,i wanted to go to ,baylor ,university4 ,i readily told him ,i did4 8,would you go80 he asked4 ,i replied1 8,i would if ,i could40 ,but that seemed impossible4 ,i had no money4 ,my father could not help me4 ,and1 besides1 ,i was under obligation to teach that school4 ,he offered to help overcome all these difficulties if ,i would only go4 ,i afterward saw that his main purpose was to see if ,i wanted to go1 and would if ,i could4 ,he himself had worked his way through ,mississippi ,college and the ,seminary4 ,without my knowledge1 he and his church had watched my struggle for an education4 ,ofttimes in former days ,i had sold him and other members of that church1 not knowing who they were at the time1 many cords of wood and watermelons to help pay my way in school4 ,i had now stopped and was going to teach4 ,they were afraid this would mean the end of my own school days4 ,thus he came in behalf of his church to ask me to go on at once to college4 ,if ,i would do so they would furnish me ten dollars per month4 ,i saw the trustees of the school ,i had contracted to teach4 ,they were unselfish and sympathetic toward me4 ,glad that ,i had this opportunity1 they released me on condition that ,i help secure a teacher in my place4 ,this was easily and satisfactorily done4 ,i renewed the note at the bank1 and with the money ,i had made since my return from the ,normal and the first ten dollars from that church ,i made preparation1 and bought my ticket for ,waco1 ,texas1 to enter ,baylor ,university4 ,after ,i had bought my ticket ,i had but fifteen dollars4 ,i felt that if ,i could only get there ,i could work for my board1 and with the promised ten dollars a month ,i could pay all my other expenses4 ,when ,i reached college there was but one person in all that city1 student body and faculty1 that ,i had ever before seen--,dr4 ,brooks4 ,and he had never before met me4 ,i could not get there till the night before matriculation began4 ,then ,i could find no opening or home where ,i could work for my board4 ,they had all been taken4 ,dr4 ,brooks saw my anxiety and disappointment4 ,he encouraged me to hope and hang on4 ,and ,i did4 ,i made arrangements with a students' club for a month's board1 matriculated as subfreshman and got down to work4 ,i saw that ,dr4 ,brooks was very busy4 ,therefore ,i never went to him with my troubles4 ,but he would sometimes overtake me on the campus or call for me to come to his office and would encourage me4 ,once while on a trip somebody sent by him fifteen dollars to help me hold on4 ,i do not now know where it came from4 ,i was able also to get five dollars per month from a students' aid fund4 ,i have often felt that without this it would have been impossible for me to stay4 ,for at the end of the first month there was still no place open for me to work4 ,and so it was from time to time for the first year4 ,when ,i would hear of and go to see a place someone was just ahead of me4 ,then once or twice the church would fail to send me the ten dollars4 ,how ,i ever stayed out that first year ,i can hardly realize4 ,it seems like a nightmare at times as ,i look back on it4 ,i had no money to renew my worn-out clothes4 ,and in those days ,i became an artist with a needle4 ,i could put as nice a patch on the elbow of my coat sleeve and elsewhere as any woman4 ,and when the feet of my socks would no longer hold darning1 ,i would cut them off and sew two legs together1 sew up one end1 and wear them that way4 ,and at the wash tub1 there was not in all the ,south a black mammy that could beat me4 ,i bought me a set of smoothing irons and with the exception of my collars and occasionally a shirt ,i ironed all my clothes4 ,i also pressed my coat and trousers4 ,and by pressing now and then for others ,i would bring a twenty-five cent piece to my depleted purse4 ,but there were homesickness and heart aches4 ,there was no going home ,christmas and other vacations4 ,and more than once my hope was almost gone4 ,and ofttimes when my room-mate had gone to sleep ,i would slip away into the darkness to the old ,baptist ,tabernacle1 that once stood where the ,first ,baptist ,church now stands1 and pray till far into the night for ,god to help me hold on and to open up some way4 ,i well remember one morning after a night of wrestling1 my room-mate approached me and asked if ,i needed any money1 saying that his parents had sent him more than was necessary for his immediate needs4 ,i told him my condition4 ,he gladly lent me enough to pay up my board for another month4 ,this ended my first year4 ,the delayed check from the church enabled me to return home1 where ,i spent the summer at hard work4 ,i had had a taste of college life4 ,i had also tried my mettle1 and was now determined to finish4 ,the church again promised to continue its help4 ,therefore1 ,i came back that fall1 but with a more hopeful outlook4 ,soon after my return ,i found a good home three miles out from the college where ,i could work for my board1 and also some clerical work4 ,i notified the church that ,i could get along without their help1 thanking them for what they had done for me and asking that they help someone else as they had me4 ,this they did4 ,the nature of the work ,i did in this home was very much like that ,i did while in high school4 ,i continued to work here for three years4 ,after staying in this home a year and at the close of my freshman year1 the pastor of the ,east ,waco ,church1 where ,i worshiped and taught an adult ,bible class1 had to give up his work because of ill health4 ,though ,i had never been ordained1 but had tried to preach a few times1 the church asked that ,i supply the pulpit till they could get a pastor4 ,i agreed to do so4 ,they paid me ten dollars per ,sunday for my service1 which lasted for six months4 ,but ,i continued working for my board1 fearing to give up the place lest somebody else would have it when ,i got through with the church4 ,besides1 by doing this1 and with that forty dollars per month for six months1 ,i was able to pay the fifty dollars ,i owed the bank1 provide myself with some necessary things1 continue my college work during the summer term and have enough to return for my sophomore year4 ,however1 all this work was not done without some embarrassment1 especially at first4 ,this family for whom ,i worked were in good circumstances financially and were members of that church4 ,ofttimes on ,sunday morning after ,i had done their chores1 dressed in my blue 8,carhartt0 overalls1 ,i would hitch their horse to the carriage for them to go to church4 ,then ,i would put on my best clothes and go and get in the pulpit and preach to them4 ,but these proved to be some of the best friends ,i ever had4 ,thus1 by means of plenty of hard work1 it was made easier for me to stay in college4 ,when ,i ceased my service for the ,east ,waco ,church ,i was called to serve a small suburban church for one-half time for ten dollars per month4 ,after a while they increased this to fifteen4 ,in my junior year ,i was called to another church1 sixty miles out from ,waco1 for the other two ,sundays at twenty-five dollars per month4 ,at the close of my junior year ,i gave up working for my board1 devoting all my energies to my college and church work4 ,also at the close of my junior year ,i was awarded the first holder of the ,m4 ,h4 ,wolfe scholarship of two hundred and fifty dollars to be used during my senior year4 ,during this year ,i had smooth sailing4 ,at the close of my senior year ,i was awarded the ,e4 ,l4 ,marston scholarship of two hundred and fifty dollars to ,brown ,university1 ,providence1 ,r4 ,i4 ,i again spent my summer working hard and then borrowed two hundred dollars that ,i might supplement this scholarship and go to ,brown for my ,a4,m4 work4 ,i had become so accustomed to working during both school and vacation that ,i might stay in school1 ,i continued to do so while in ,brown and on through my seminary year4 ,after taking my ,a4,m41 ,i returned to ,brown for a second year of postgraduate work4 ,this last year ,i made an average of ninety-five dollars per month while also carrying on my university studies4 ,the next year ,i went to the ,southern ,baptist ,theological ,seminary1 ,louisville1 ,ky4 ,the first year ,i was there ,i finished the ,th4,m4 degree1 and pastored a half-time church outside of ,louisville4 ,i returned to the ,seminary a second year1 completed the class work and stood the examination for the postgraduate ,th4,d4 course4 ,i expect later to submit my thesis for that degree4 ,through it all ,i got a full share of college and seminary life and spirit4 ,the knowledge1 inspiration and visions of life were but a part of what ,i got4 ,there were also close friendships and insight into human nature4 ,i also had my part of college fun and got my share of class and student honors4 ,it was not necessary to be1 as some may think1 a mere grind4 ,thus ,i have told you the story of how ,i got my education4 ,i was twenty-three when ,i left home to begin in the sixth grade4 ,i was thirty-three the day before ,i received my ,th4,m4 degree from the ,seminary4 ,and one year later ,i left the schoolroom with a younger spirit1 a broader vision1 better equipped to continue my place in the service of humanity and ,god4 ,during it all ,i borrowed only two hundred and fifty dollars4 ,at the end ,i had paid this back and paid for fifty acres of land4 ,my father never helped me a cent4 ,he was not able at first4 ,but he did appreciate my struggle1 and late in my college course came to me and said that he was in better circumstances and if ,i ever got to where ,i could not go myself to let him know4 ,i never got to that place4 ,he asked for the pleasure of making me a present of my first college diploma4 ,i gladly gave him this pleasure4 ,the departure of that hurt and disappointed look on his face1 in knowing that ,i was somehow getting what he wanted me to have1 has repaid me a thousand times for all the struggles ,i have had to make unsupported by him4 ,you may think that my being a minister and the salary from preaching made it easier for me than it would be for others4 ,but this is not necessarily true4 ,for if you will note1 the work that ,i did was the work that anyone can do and it was up to and through my high school1 subfreshman and freshman years in college that ,i had such a hard struggle4 ,and it was after this time that ,i ever received a cent for preaching4 ,moreover1 for two years of my time at ,baylor ,i had to pay my tuition1 one year by working in the ,library1 the other with a scholarship4 ,and at ,brown ,university no free tuition is given2 preachers and all pay alike4 ,there is a college education for every man4 ,and all that is needed for the acquiring of such is an uncompromising desire and purpose and strength of body and mind4 ,rock ,hill1 ,s4 ,c4 ,a ,,faith 8,,divinely ,,simple0 ,,rev4 ,s4 ,f4 ,,nicks1 ,a4,b4 ,orange ,county1 ,north ,carolina1 was my native home1 where ,i was reared on the farm in a home of limited means4 ,there were eight of us children who grew to manhood and womanhood in the old home4 ,our advantages for an education were unusually poor1 being only that of the old free school which at the time ran from two to three months in the year and ofttimes we did not get to attend all the time4 ,that old free school was all that my brothers and sisters ever had the privilege of attending4 ,father provided a good honest living for the home1 but was not able to send his children away to school4 ,i was not willing to stop with only the advantage that little school afforded4 ,at twenty-one ,i had fifty-four dollars1 and with that ,i entered the ,siler ,city high school and remained there for three five-month terms4 ,while there ,i did my own cooking1 cut wood1 made fires and swept the academy for my tuition4 ,i then taught one session of public school at #bj per month4 ,i then entered the ,caldwell ,institute of ,orange ,county1 ,n4 ,c41 and was in school there two years4 ,the first year ,i boarded with a widow and did enough work to pay my board and received my tuition there for work that ,i did in securing students4 ,in the fall of #ahii ,i entered ,trinity ,college1 where ,i remained four years1 graduating in the spring of #aijc4 ,while in college the work that ,i did for paying expenses was mostly during vacation4 ,by this time ,i had become quite a successful salesman4 ,i traveled every vacation1 selling books1 pictures1 etc4 ,the goods that ,i handled were always of a helpful nature1 and as an evidence of this fact ,i traveled the same territory for five different summers4 ,every summer ,i made enough to pay my expenses in college the following session1 and when ,i graduated ,i was in better circumstances financially than when ,i entered4 ,the last summer ,i was promoted as general agent for books and had several sub-agents working under me4 ,now ,i have briefly outlined how ,i worked my way through high school and college1 while there are many other ways not mentioned in which ,i earned small amounts1 such as cutting hair1 mending shoes and cleaning clothes1 ,i desire to say that the working my way was not all2 ,i can remember how well ,i managed--making a little go a long way2 learning the value of a dollar and knowing when and how to spend it to the best advantage4 ,all this is due to my keeping a book account of all my expenses4 ,i kept an itemized account of everything1 even to my postage stamps4 ,i shall never forget the kind words of encouragement from ,dr4 ,w4 ,p4 ,few and others while ,i was in college4 ,dr4 ,few1 now president of ,trinity ,college1 is truly a friend to a poor boy4 ,in conclusion ,i desire to say that my working and managing my way through school has been of untold value to me in other ways4 ,i have never had work that paid any fancy salary1 but have always been able to lay aside a little every year4 ,the ,giver of all has helped me to manage that little so that it continually grows and multiplies and shall ever be dedicated to the ,master's use4 ,milton1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,one ,,who ,,knows ,,it ,,can ,,be ,,done ,perhaps during no other period of civilized history is the excuse for a boy's not obtaining at least a college education so unfounded and unacceptable1 to those of us who have traveled this very same road1 as it is to-day4 ,about us everywhere are great schools and institutions of learning with their various departments supported by ,state and individual endowments1 eliminating the once felt great college expense1 and placing the best within the reach of us all4 ,this fact1 however1 is not apparent to everyone1 and it is for this reason the writer has been induced to say just a word of encouragement to the boys on the farm and to those who have seen a very little of life4 ,first of all1 allow him to assure you that 8no one knows the possibilities of a newly born babe10 and one must remember that our greatest statesmen and thinkers at one time could scarcely read1 as well as that the most famous musicians once knew not the musical scale4 ,just so it is with the boy in the remotest district of the country4 ,he may have the making of a ,lincoln or be able to rise to the position of a ,king4 ,therefore1 we see1 8,everyone is the architect of his own fortune10 and the only three necessary requisites are health1 strength1 and a sound mind4 ,it has been the writer's great pleasure to have lived in every walk of life from the boy on the farm to one in the greatest cities of both the ,united ,states and ,europe and it is not through hearing or fancy1 but with personal authority he can speak4 ,there is a greater appreciation for the working college boy to-day than ever before4 ,even the greater institutions like the ,university of ,chicago1 ,illinois1 and ,wisconsin1 as well as all the ,state ,universities of the ,south1 have in their enrollments not only boys who are earning their way1 but boys who are leading their classes and represent the strongest types of young manhood we know4 ,one almost comes to feel that1 though the path is a bit more rugged1 self-help develops in the college boy1 as in the football player1 a keener sense of duty2 gives to him a firmer confidence1 and leaves no obstacles that he by constant1 honest effort cannot surmount4 ,oh6 what the writer would have given to have known this when he was a boy6 ,he was reared on a farm and had very few of the opportunities enjoyed by the boys in the remotest districts of the country to-day4 ,there must have been an inborn instinct to try for an education1 because no forms of business or other like inducements ever claimed any part of his mind4 ,he remained on the farm till he was seventeen years of age1 going three months to school in the summer and doing what he could with his books himself at odd times4 ,finally his brother gave him a cotton patch4 ,the cotton1 when sold1 netted him #he4 ,with this money he went away to a boarding high school where he came in contact1 for the first time1 with teachers of some influence and moral strength4 ,he remained at this school five months and had to return to the farm because of no more money4 ,from the farm he went to work in a general store1 thinking perhaps this was a quicker and shorter way1 but found this a difficult task1 too1 to save any money ahead because of such small wages4 ,all this time there was an ever increasing desire to go away to school1 8money or no money10 but lack of experience made him afraid4 ,from the store he went out from town to town as a picture agent and it was here perhaps that a bit of self-confidence was first gained4 ,all this time the one purpose and desire was to save money for college1 but sales were not successful enough to warrant his going into what seemed impossible to the inexperienced mind4 ,finally1 one day he came in tired out and discouraged feeling that to be a picture man was to be of little force in the world4 ,he clearly saw that1 first of all1 one must be educated4 ,acting upon this conclusion he boarded a train for the ,state ,university of ,louisiana1 which was to open in ten days4 ,he first set about finding out whether boys without money could earn their way by work4 ,he told the ,president that all the money he had was #fe1 but that he had come there determined to enter school4 ,this determined spirit made the ,president offer some encouragement by advising the young student to register and try4 ,he did far more than this by saying he would give the boy the name of a newspaper editor who wanted some boy to assist in managing the circulation of his paper4 ,with this small spark of hope1 the young student settled down to study and to try to meet the entrance examination1 which he himself thought he could not pass4 ,the necessary 8mark0 was made to enter the subfreshman department1 however1 and he was finally enrolled and became one of the boys4 ,he worked every afternoon in this newspaper office1 seeing that the papers were delivered promptly1 collected for the paper and solicited new subscriptions4 ,thus he made his expenses for the entire year4 ,this did a great deal to encourage him4 ,after spending the following summer looking after the horticultural gardens1 he returned the next session and carried papers as an ordinary newsboy1 and passed his freshman year4 ,after this year a scholarship was granted him by the ,university1 which made his expenses possible during his sophomore year4 ,during his junior and senior years he assisted in the zological laboratories at the ,university and taught the sciences at the city high school1 which more than paid his expenses to graduation4 ,during his summers he worked as 8tick agent0 for the ,bureau of ,animal ,industry1 ,washington1 ,d4 ,c41 and in this way saved sufficient money to begin a medical course1 which he saw no chance of completing at the time4 ,luck came his way1 however1 and he met every obstacle for two years and finally borrowed money from a friend to finish his medical course4 ,one finds a course in medicine somewhat more difficult to work through than a college course1 but after one has gone through college these difficulties are easily met4 ,finally1 allow him to say that all any boy needs to obtain an education is money enough to pay his railroad fare to the school he wishes to attend2 after he reaches there1 if he is in earnest1 someone will show him a way4 ,the writer does not wish to disclose his name for personal reasons1 but anyone interested can get his address from the author of 8,college ,men without ,money10 and letters written to him concerning how to work through school will be answered with pleasure4 ,mississippi4 ,,difficulty ,,and ,,willingness ,,are ,,enemies ,,rev4 ,c4 ,h4 ,,rowland1 ,a4,b41 ,m4,a41 ,d4,d4 ,on the #ajth day of ,september1 #ahie1 ,i arrived at ,elon ,college to do five years' work in order to receive a diploma from that institution4 ,it seemed like an impossible task4 ,a well-worn trunk held my belongings1 which consisted of a preacher's coat of long standing4 ,my purse contained the whole amount of six dollars and seventy-five cents4 ,it might be of interest to say that ,i was nearing my twenty-seventh birthday1 and had been a licensed preacher for four years4 ,there is no need to tell why ,i was at college without money1 for ,i have already said1 that ,i was a preacher1 and the ,scriptures say1 8,not many wise men after the flesh1 not many mighty1 not many noble are called40 ,it was ,dr4 ,smith ,baker1 of ,maine1 who said1 8,in the ministerial profession1 four-fifths of the ministers worked their own way by doing all kinds of work from sawing wood to teaching school40 ,i was not one of the class who sawed wood1 neither did ,i teach school1 but ,i preached1 just simply preached4 ,i have not asked those who heard me what they called it1 but ,i called it 8preaching40 ,i always believed that if a young man had brains and energy he could obtain an education without much help from anyone but ,god4 ,my trouble was1 ,i wanted enough money before ,i went to college to 8put me through40 ,i suppose1 if ,i had been so favored with money1 ,i would not have been worth 8putting through40 ,that was a ride never to be forgotten on that ,september morning1 when ,i left my home to drive thirteen miles to ,raleigh1 ,n4 ,c41 to take the train for ,elon ,college4 ,a widowed mother at home--practically no money in my pocket1 and five years' work to be done in college4 ,my little bark was on a stormy sea1 but ,i had decided to use the oars with all my might1 and if ,i went down ,i would be breasting the storm4 ,if it had not been for the prayers and sacrifices of a ,christian mother1 and the encouragement of a devoted cousin1 who lived with us1 ,i should have failed4 ,that same mother is helping her boy to-day by her prayers1 although she has passed her four score years1 and has been an invalid for many years4 ,when ,i arrived in ,raleigh1 ,i was met on the street by an uncle1 and he asked1 8,where are you going80 ,i said1 8,i am going to ,elon ,college40 ,he turned and walked with me down the street until he came to a drug store1 and then he said1 8,come in here for ,i want to give you something40 ,we went in1 and he asked for a box of soap1 and he purchased a box containing three bars of soap4 ,he had it wrapped nicely1 and we walked out1 and then he said1 8,i want to give you this for service and a symbol2 keep yourself clean40 ,i do not know which he thought ,i needed the most1 the soap or the advice1 but ,i know that both were timely1 and ,i feel sure ,i profited by the incident4 ,my first day at college left me almost penniless1 for ,i paid five dollars as a matriculation fee1 and the remaining one dollar and seventy-five cents was invested in second-hand books1 except a few cents retained to pay postage in writing to my mother and my girl4 ,that first week at college was a long one1 but at last ,saturday came1 and ,i dressed and went to the depot to go to my ,sunday appointment fifty miles away4 ,i met one of the professors on my way to the station1 and he asked me1 8,where are you going80 ,my heart sank within me1 for ,i did not have a dime in my pocket1 but ,i said1 8,i am going to fill my appointment40 ,just before ,i got to the depot1 for ,i 8walked and was sad10 ,i met a preacher4 ,he looked kind1 but preachers are generally poor men to borrow money from1 but ,i said right out1 8,brother ----1 loan me one dollar until ,monday40 ,that preacher had the real money1 and it might have been his last dollar1 but he handed it to me4 ,it took almost every cent to pay my railroad fare1 and nothing with which to return4 ,that was one time ,i acted on faith4 ,the church which ,i was serving at that time held a conference on that ,saturday afternoon1 and one of the brethren asked that they pay up just a little better1 as 8their pastor was in college40 ,they paid me a little more than a dozen dollars that day1 and ,i am sure that ,i preached better than usual on the following day4 ,i received one hundred dollars from that church that year1 and paid twenty-five of that to the railroad for transportation4 ,that college year was not far spent1 when another church called me to become pastor at a salary of fifty dollars for the year4 ,i had resigned two churches before ,i left home1 as they were so far from the ,college that they took more of my time than ,i could give1 and the expenses were more than the salary paid4 ,my brother gave me most of my clothes1 and all the help he could1 and my churches paid other bills4 ,the vacation was spent in evangelistic work for which ,i received a small amount4 ,the second year was even more gloomy than the first1 for the hired man at home had failed to make good4 ,someone had to be found to take his place1 and it seemed for some time that ,i would have to be the man4 ,after arrangement was made for home ,i began my second year at college with one more church1 and that one was much nearer and it was to pay one hundred and twenty-five dollars as a salary4 ,it may seem like a small matter to preach three ,sundays in each month1 and attend school1 but it is hard on all--the professors1 the student1 and the people4 ,with three churches ,i began the third year1 but in ten days after ,i returned to the ,college ,i had the misfortune to shoot one of my feet1 and a part of the foot had to be taken off1 and one-half of the year was lost from college4 ,it seemed that the way was now blocked entirely1 and that my college days were at an end2 but mother1 my faithful cousin1 and ,i put our heads together1 and we decided to move to the ,college4 ,when we arrived at ,elon ,college1 ,christmas of #ahig1 ,i was still pastor of three churches1 but my expenses were so much increased that ,i took the fourth appointment at a salary of seventy-five dollars for the year1 making my salary in all three hundred and fifty dollars4 ,the remainder of my time at the ,college ,i preached every ,sunday1 with few exceptions4 ,it does look like a reflection on those churches to tell of the small amount paid for preaching1 but the thing that startles me is1 how they were ever able to pay what they did for such preaching4 ,i hope they feel that they were giving themselves to save a poor preacher in college4 ,the amount received for preaching did not meet our family expenses1 but we took a few boarders1 and received a little from the farm1 and the rest ,i borrowed4 ,the last year was a test of faith also1 for my strength was hardly equal to the task of keeping up with my classes1 and looking after home duties1 and preaching every ,sunday1 and trying to make up some work missed while lame from my accident4 ,work was piling up1 churches were paying poorly1 grades were poor1 and the breaking-point almost reached1 and it was my senior year4 ,i would not let myself think about failing to receive my diploma1 but the way was dark4 ,the commencement time was coming1 and money was getting more scarce1 and bills more frequent4 ,one day a real friend came to me and said1 8,a man trying as hard as you are needs help10 and she handed me a sum of money4 ,i wept1 and she wept with me1 but ,i saw through those tears light that ,i had not seen before4 ,the day of graduation came on the #adth day of ,june1 #aijj4 ,it was a glad day1 and a sad day1 for ,i felt that ,i had almost reached the goal1 but ,i knew that ,i had not gotten all that ,i ought to have gotten out of my college course4 ,i thought people would ask me about my grades1 but not one has asked me about them yet4 ,i find that folks are not interested in what my grades were1 but what ,i can do4 ,one thing ,i learned by being at college without money1 and that was that money is not essential to character4 ,money cannot cover up badness1 neither can poverty hide goodness4 ,it is not a matter of how little money you have to get through college1 for the money is the smallest part of a college life4 ,the less money the better in some cases4 ,it is not so much money as it is great ,faith1 and a ,determination4 ,franklin1 ,virginia4 ,,faithful ,,in ,,little ,,things ,,hon4 ,c4 ,g4 ,,saunders1 ,a4,b41 ,,ll4,d4 ,my father1 ,george ,w4 ,saunders1 was born in ,england1 ,june #c1 #ahcg4 ,his parents emigrated with their children and settled in ,oneida ,county1 ,new ,york1 in the spring of #aheb4 ,my mother1 ,mary ,e4 ,walker1 was also born in ,england and came with her people in the forties to the same county in ,america1 and ,i presume they should properly be placed in that large class of people who were 8poor but honest02 my maternal grandfather1 ,thomas ,walker1 became a prosperous farmer1 and lived to a very old age4 ,shortly after his coming to ,america1 my grandfather1 ,william ,saunders1 became an invalid and my father1 being the oldest of a large family1 was compelled to assist in earning a livelihood for the family and so was deprived of early educational advantages4 ,he was a man of strong natural talents1 of strict integrity1 and was commonly known as a 8hard-headed old ,englishman40 ,he became a very successful farmer before his death and 8passed over the grade0 financially just as ,i became of age4 ,my sainted mother was a plain1 home woman who loved her family and her ,god1 and who devoted her life to her family of eight children and her husband4 ,i was the oldest child1 and was born on the #ajth day of ,april1 #ahfa1 in ,oneida ,county1 ,new ,york4 ,in #ahfh my father removed to ,iowa ,city1 ,iowa1 where he was a railroad foreman for five years1 and during those years ,i attended the graded school when ,i was not sick4 ,in the spring of #ahgc my father concluded he did not desire to rear his boys about a railroad1 and so settled upon an eighty-acre farm1 near ,stuart1 ,iowa4 ,at this early age1 when ,i was puny and weak1 ,i was forced by the financial condition of the family to enter upon the active duties of the farm4 ,many a day have ,i plowed1 when ,i did not possess sufficient strength to pull the plow around the corners1 and lifted it around by getting the handles upon my shoulder4 ,in the spring of #ahgf1 my father saw that he could make only a bare living upon his small farm1 so he sold it and removed to ,vail1 ,iowa1 and settled in the rich and fertile valley of the ,boyer ,river4 ,at this time he had about two thousand dollars1 a weak body1 and an ambition to achieve success4 ,an injury sustained while in the railroad employment incapacitated him from doing the heavy work of the farm1 but it did not impair either his ambition or his energy4 ,i worked from seven in the morning until sundown on the long summer days behind a heavy team4 ,mother sympathized with me1 but father never realized that the toil was beyond my strength4 ,he was a firm believer in the doctrine of 8hard work0 and that 8,satan finds mischief still for idle hands to do10 and governed himself accordingly4 ,he loved his family and did the best for them that his means permitted4 ,the county was new and people were all poor1 but the land owners characterized the others as 8poor renters40 ,for four years we were in the latter class4 ,i completed the country school1 in the spring of #ahgg1 and then desired to enter the ,vail school1 the course of which did not extend beyond what would now be classed as the eighth grade4 ,we lived three miles from town1 and as my people could not afford to pay my board in the village1 ,i was necessarily compelled to live at home and go horseback to school4 ,when ,i was about sixteen1 ,i determined to become a lawyer and so informed my people4 ,they treated the announcement as a boyish whim1 and later discouraged me from entering upon such a course4 ,father urged that ,i might become one of those 8educated fools0 and mother1 who was a devoted member of the ,methodist ,church1 quoted to me that passage of ,scripture1 8,woe unto ye lawyers40 ,books to the amount of about seven dollars were required if ,i should enter the ,vail school and that was a large sum of money in our large family4 ,the turning point in my life came on a cold ,december day in #ahgg4 ,i had taken a load of hay to ,denison about eight miles away4 ,all the way there and back ,i was pondering over the question of an education4 ,when ,i drove into the yard after returning from town1 father came to assist in putting away the team4 ,i was stiff with cold1 but ,i said1 8,father1 ,i am going to ,vail to school after ,new ,year's40 ,he retorted1 8,where is the money to come from for the books80 ,i said1 8,father1 you spend six dollars per year for chewing tobacco0 7his only bad habit71 8and you can afford that much to send your boy to school40 ,i went to school two and a half months that winter and likewise the next two winters4 ,i then secured a second-grade certificate and taught a county school the two winters preceding my twenty-first birthday4 ,each winter ,i taught a four months' term--wages #cj per month the first winter1 and #ce the second4 ,the first winter ,i walked three miles across the prairie1 cared for a team at home and acted as my own janitor at the schoolhouse4 ,this was the awful winter of #ahhj-ha1 when the snow was four feet deep on the level4 ,there were no roads that were available to me1 and ,i made my own path4 ,i saved one hundred dollars that winter and a like sum the following winter1 so when ,i attained my majority in ,april1 #ahhb1 ,i had two hundred dollars4 ,i had never had an overcoat and ,i did not possess even a trunk4 ,i owned a colt that ,i sold for fifty dollars4 ,that summer ,i worked on my father's farm at a wage of twenty dollars per month for five months1 and on ,september #ae1 #ahhb1 ,i started for ,drake ,university with #cej1 a suit of clothes and a trunk4 ,i had thought by day and dreamed by night of a college education1 and now the dream was to become a reality4 ,as the train whistled at the station1 father grasped me by the hand and1 with tears streaming down his face1 said1 8,boy1 ,i have opposed this all the time1 but ,i guess you are doing the right thing40 ,that was the first word of encouragement ,i had ever received from my parents to proceed with my education4 ,my room1 partially furnished1 cost me four dollars per month when ,i shared it with another1 and board was #a4ge per week in the 8club40 ,we did not fare sumptuously1 but we had sufficient wholesome food to keep us in good health4 ,i did not earn any money during the first fall and winter1 but in the spring ,i seized an opportunity to earn three dollars per week by sweeping six rooms1 carrying the coal for the same1 and ringing the bells for all the classes and the college bells from #f ,a4 ,m4 to #i ,p4 ,m4 ,a watch was necessary for my work1 so ,i took part of my hard-earned wages and bought a watch which is now a treasured possession4 ,the following summer ,i worked upon the home farm and returned to ,drake in the fall4 ,i did janitor work during my second year at the same scale of wages4 ,i also spent many of my ,saturdays grubbing stumps out of a lawn near the ,university4 ,in the spring of my second year ,i worked ,saturdays on the streets with a shovel1 receiving #a4ej for eight hours' work4 ,in the spring term of my second year1 some of my college chums found that my return was doubtful3 hence they elected me steward of the boarding club for the succeeding year4 ,this paid my board and room rent during the third year4 ,in the summer following my second year1 ,i assumed the role of book agent4 ,this experience was not very successful1 netting me only about seventy-five dollars for my summer's work4 ,when ,i entered ,drake ,university1 ,i had two years of preparatory work to do4 ,i carried five studies for three years1 reciting daily in each4 ,this was possible because we had eight class hours of forty-five minutes each4 ,as ,i approached the end of my third year1 some of my teachers urged me to return for another year4 ,i found that by carrying six studies all the year ,i could graduate classical1 and on the last ,sunday night before commencement ,i determined to return1 notwithstanding the fact that my purse was empty4 ,i worked again on the home farm in the summer vacation1 and returned in the fall with sixty dollars and an assurance of a loan of one hundred dollars from my father4 ,the ,university had agreed to take my notes for the tuition of my senior year1 so ,i returned in the fall of #ahhe not knowing how ,i should get through the year1 but confident that in some way ,i would earn some money and complete the course4 ,the evening ,i returned to the ,university1 the secretary of the faculty offered me the editorship of the college paper4 ,frank ,morgan1 of blessed memory1 assumed the business management1 and we divided two hundred and forty dollars between us as the profits of the venture4 ,a personal friend1 who was as poor as ,i1 with me rented a furnished room in which we kept 8bach40 ,i shall not state the amount it cost us for fuel1 coal oil and food1 but it was much less than the expense of boarding in the club4 ,i edited the paper1 carried six studies1 and broke down about two weeks before commencement4 ,i did not take my final examinations1 but was awarded my degree upon my class standing4 ,i had borrowed the promised one hundred dollars from my father1 had given my notes for my tuition1 and when we made our final division of profits arising from the paper1 ,i had sixty dollars in my pocket and my college degree4 ,between the winter and spring terms of my senior year1 ,i applied for the principalship of the high school at ,manning1 ,iowa4 ,for six weeks the board was in a deadlock and then it elected the other applicant4 ,it was a bitter disappointment1 as such positions were not numerous and most of them were then filled4 ,i planned to teach two years and then pursue the study of law4 ,about two weeks before commencement1 ,i was offered the principalship of a two-room school just outside the corporate limits of the city of ,des ,moines4 ,but ,i saw1 however1 that ,i could immediately take up the law1 and so about ,july #a1 #ahhf1 ,i entered the law office of ,c4 ,c4 ,nourse and in the next fourteen months ,i read the junior year of the law course laid down by the ,state ,university4 ,in the fall ,i took charge of my school1 but ,i read law nights1 mornings and ,saturdays4 ,i was fortunate in securing board at a very reasonable price4 ,by close economy ,i paid all my debts and had about one hundred and fifty dollars left when the fall of #ahhg came4 ,i then entered the ,state ,university of ,iowa1 passed the examinations of the junior year1 became a member of the senior class1 and graduated in ,june1 #ahhh4 ,such in brief is the story of my struggle for an education4 ,i have written it with the hope that it may encourage other young men and young women of limited means to make the effort that ,i made to open the gates of opportunity4 ,while the expenses have increased1 the opportunities for employment have multiplied in a much greater ratio1 and ,i am fully convinced that any young man or young woman1 with fair health1 may secure a higher education if he has it in him and is but willing to pay the price of toil and sacrifice4 ,some may inquire1 ,did it pay8 ,within one hundred feet of where ,i performed janitor work1 ,drake ,university in #aijj conferred upon me the ,,ll4,d4 degree2 three times have ,i been elected to the ,state ,senate4 ,the ,state ,bar ,association has honored me with its presidency4 ,council ,bluffs1 ,iowa4 ,,from ,,janitor ,,to ,,college ,,president ,,rev4 ,w4 ,w4 ,,staley1 ,a4,b41 ,a4,m41 ,d4,d41 ,,ll4,d41 ,,ex-,,president ,,of ,,elon ,,college ,i have been asked to tell why and how ,i worked my way through college4 ,because there was no other way to get through college1 but to work through1 gives the reason why4 ,my father1 ,john ,tilmon ,staley1 was a school teacher4 ,he died of typhoid fever at twenty-eight1 when ,i was five4 ,my mother married ,archibald ,m4 ,cook three years after my father's death1 and was the mother of eight children3 three ,staleys and five ,cooks4 ,at the close of the ,civil ,war1 emancipation left us nothing but land4 ,in #ahff my uncle1 ,lieutenant ,j4 ,n4 ,h4 ,clendenin1 proposed that if ,i would work with him on his farm he would send me to ,dr4 ,w4 ,s4 ,long's school in ,graham the next winter4 ,my stepfather said he was not able to send me to school1 but he would give me my time4 ,i worked on the farm that summer and entered school ,january #ag1 #ahfg1 and walked three miles to school that term4 ,at the end of that term1 ,dr4 ,w4 ,s4 ,long proposed to furnish me board1 clothes and tuition1 if ,i would live with him and provide wood1 keep rooms in order1 build fires1 cultivate the garden1 milk cows1 feed horses1 and cultivate a small crop in summer vacation4 ,i accepted and entered his service in ,september1 #ahfg4 ,i hauled wood two miles1 cut and placed same in place for fourteen fires1 swept schoolrooms and built fires2 attended to horses1 cows1 and garden2 went to the country for feed1 flour1 meat1 and live beef and butchered it2 cultivated vegetables1 potatoes1 and corn in summer2 did sundry errands for ,dr4 ,long2 and recited lessons when other duties did not prevent1 and kept up with my classes4 ,in #ahfi ,i taught the ,graham ,public ,school and in the spring ,i entered the store of ,col4 ,a4 ,c4 ,mc,alister in ,company ,shops 7now ,burlington7 as clerk4 ,in addition to my store duties1 and with the consent of my employer1 ,i attended to the morning express train and sale of tickets at four o'clock4 ,my pay as clerk was board1 laundry1 and #aj4jj per month2 and ,i received #aj4jj per month for attending to the early morning express train4 ,at the end of the year ,col4 ,mc,alister paid me #e4jj per month more than he had promised4 ,in the spring of #ahga1 ,i spent four months more in the ,graham ,school1 and entered the sophomore class in ,trinity ,college1 ,n4 ,c41 in ,september1 #ahga4 ,i graduated from ,trinity in ,june1 #ahgd1 in a class of thirteen4 ,the first half year in ,trinity ,i boarded myself by renting a room from a minister whose wife prepared meals for me and another young man1 who is a distinguished judge4 ,the son of the good woman who prepared our meals worked his way through college by sweeping rooms and building fires4 ,he became a fine judge4 ,two years and a half ,i boarded on credit with ,w4 ,s4 ,bradshaw and his good wife4 ,at the end of the spring term of #ahgb1 ,mr4 ,bradshaw asked me if ,i was coming back in the fall4 ,i told him ,i would have to stop and make some money and would come again4 ,he replied3 8,i will board you till you get through1 and wait with you for the money40 ,i said1 8,i have no security to give you40 ,he replied1 8,i will trust you and take the risk40 ,after ,i finished ,i paid for my board with interest1 paid my tuition in full 7though the college did not charge ministerial students71 and made a donation of #ajj to the college4 ,in addition to this1 ,i secured a #ajj subscription from each of the other twelve members of our class to be paid in four equal annual instalments after graduation4 ,friends and churches aided me in the sum of two hundred and forty-nine dollars4 ,since then ,i have paid to the church in cash more than twice as many thousands as ,i received hundreds4 ,after leaving ,college seven hundred dollars in debt1 ,i taught with ,rev4 ,d4 ,a4 ,long and ,judge ,b4 ,f4 ,long in ,graham1 and preached as assistant pastor of ,new ,providence ,church till #ahgg1 when ,i entered the ,university of ,virginia4 ,that was the only institution where ,i accepted free tuition2 but ,i paid all other fees4 ,about the easiest task of my life was to work through college2 and1 if ,i may make one remark1 it would be that the danger of schools is to make education too easy4 ,the armor used by ,roman soldiers in camp exercises was twice the weight of that which they used in battle4 ,this made battle easy as compared with drill4 ,it seems to me that college life ought to develop human powers by double strain so as to prepare for life's big task4 ,hot-house methods cannot make men of greatest endurance and usefulness4 ,that is why so many men drop out suddenly in the prime of life4 ,they cannot stand the strain of great public service4 ,suffolk1 ,va4 ,,starting ,,with ,,five ,,dollars ,i graduated from high school in #aijg with less than #e left from my previous summer's earnings4 ,although1 when younger1 school attendance had been distasteful to me1 ,i was now fully determined to get a college education1 and that without asking financial aid from my parents4 ,i had been reared on a farm and was used to hard work2 but ,i felt that my education should now count for something1 and that ,i should be able to get something better than manual labor4 ,i made a complete canvass of the town and obtained offers of two very lucrative positions4 ,the first on a local paper 7,i had already made some progress in learning the printer's trade7 at the enormous salary of #b4ej per week1 and the other as assistant bill clerk in a wholesale house at #c per week4 ,i decided to accept the latter1 as it offered the better chance of a quick rise1 but the offer was rescinded before ,i could accept it4 ,i then returned to the paper1 but found that they no longer needed a 8devil40 ,i saw then that it was the overalls for me4 ,my first position was in a lumber camp in the ,smoky ,mountains at #a4dj per day of eleven hours4 ,next ,i took work with a gang engaged in grading at #a4be per day4 ,it was in ,july and slightly 8warm around the edges10 but ,i was getting along fairly well when ,i was offered the position of 8devil0 on the other local paper at #d per week4 ,i accepted4 ,i worked for this paper for over two years and my wages were steadily raised4 ,our week consisted of fifty-four hours1 but ,i frequently worked from ten to twenty hours a week overtime1 in addition to walking back and forth from my country home and doing the chores night and morning4 ,i frequently spent only my pay for overtime1 and deposited all of my regular salary in the bank4 ,i well remember the fall of #aijh1 when1 in a big rush the other two printers got on a big drunk and quit1 thus leaving the whole burden on me4 ,the strain was heavy1 but ,i stood it and as a result got the foreman's place long before ,i had served a four years' apprenticeship4 ,by the summer of #aiji ,i had saved #ege4 ,i had never commanded a large salary1 as ,i quit just when ,i was becoming efficient enough to hold down a position in a bigger office4 ,i was offered a chance to learn the linotype1 but refused and entered college in ,september4 ,i did no outside work until the following spring when ,i started to working in a local printing office at odd times4 ,i picked up #be in this way4 ,during my sophomore year ,i made #ej1 and started with the same work in my junior year1 but was offered work correcting ,english papers and made #fj in this way during the year4 ,the first summer out of college ,i worked at my trade and saved about #ajj4 ,the next summer ,i took an agency with the ,aluminum ,cooking ,utensil ,co41 which has1 ,i suppose1 helped more boys through college than any other one company4 ,i was absolutely inexperienced as a salesman1 but worked hard and cleared #bjj4 ,the next summer ,i took the same work1 but as ,i had secured an instructorship which would pay the expenses of my senior year1 ,i 8loafed on the job0 and saved only #ge4 ,i have since sincerely regretted this wasted summer4 ,by these financial means1 without any assistance whatsoever1 ,i completed my college course1 and on the day of graduation ,i could have paid all of my debts and railway fare home1 and still have had #be to my credit1 or #bj more than ,i had when ,i finished high school4 ,when ,i landed in my college town ,i knew absolutely no one and1 although ,i had very little money to spend and the college has the reputation of being somewhat aristocratic1 ,i haven't made such a bad record4 ,in my freshman year ,i won the ,english scholarship2 in my sophomore year the history scholarship2 and in my junior year the endowed scholarship1 under which ,i took the instructorship4 ,i have served as president of the literary society and have twice represented it on public celebrations4 ,i have been on the intercollegiate debate1 and was elected to the position of valedictorian by the senior class4 ,i was also elected to membership in ,phi ,beta ,kappa and ,delta ,sigma ,rho 7both honorary74 ,i mention these facts merely to show that a fellow without money need not be denied an active part in college life and activities4 ,in looking back over the past six years ,i attribute my ability to do what ,i have done to perseverance and good health4 ,too much emphasis cannot be laid upon the latter4 ,any young ,american with determination1 good health and reasonably good sense1 who has no one else dependent upon him1 can get a college education to-day4--8,,zank ,,rein40 ,lexington1 ,va4 ,,from ,,good ,,to ,,better ,,rev4 ,w4 ,e4 ,,swain1 ,d4,d4 ,i was born and reared on a little farm in ,washington ,county1 ,n4 ,c41 near the present site of ,creswell4 ,my father was poor4 ,four years of service and suffering in the ,confederate army so wrecked his health that he was able to do but little after it was all over4 ,there were no schools of any consequences near1 and had there been1 they were barred to me1 for my father was not able to pay tuition1 and there were no public schools in that section4 ,when ,i was nearly fifteen years old a gentleman living near by employed me to grub new ground4 ,this work had to be done at night after my day's work at home4 ,by piling the brush and firing them two hours' work could be done before the light was entirely gone4 ,it took about eight nights to do a 8task0 which was a piece of ground sixty feet square4 ,after having finished three tasks1 the gentleman paid me4 ,with the money so earned a bottle of ink1 six pen points1 half quire of paper1 a pen staff and a 8blue-back speller0 were purchased4 ,the speller was necessary that the script letters might be learned4 ,having made a small rough table in which a drawer was placed to hold writing material1 the task of learning to write was begun4 ,to me this was much more difficult than grubbing4 ,even after ,i had learned to make the script letters ,i did not know how to spell4 ,as a substitute for this lack more than half the speller was copied4 ,by the time this was done some of the simpler words had been learned and so ,i began to write4 ,about the same time ,i undertook to work 8sums0 in ,greenlief's ,arithmetic4 ,this was painfully slow4 ,ben4 ,spruill1 now ,capt4 ,spruill1 of ,creswell1 ,n4 ,c41 taught me to reduce a fraction to a common denominator4 ,this was done with the sharp point of a cotton burr1 the figures being made in the sand between the rows of cotton4 ,on ,august #ab1 #ahhj1 ,i arrived at ,yadkin ,college1 now ,yadkin ,college ,institute1 engaged board1 matriculated and began to cast about for some work4 ,mr4 ,james ,benson1 long since dead1 was a large merchant of the place and employed me to make drawers to place under the shelves in the store4 ,i made the first one the best ,i could and tried to make every drawer better than the preceding one4 ,this work was done on ,saturdays1 and when it was finished he employed me to stay in the store on ,saturdays and paid me really more than ,i was worth4 ,soon his health failed and ,i was out of a job4 ,on ,march #bd1 #ahha1 ,i began work at house carpentry and tried to keep up my studies by sitting up late at night preparing the lessons for the next day4 ,at commencement ,i had my speech prepared and stood my examinations1 passing on all but one study4 ,during the vacation of #ahha taught school and saved a few dollars to begin the next term4 ,when school opened this was soon gone and something had to be done4 ,a small unused room was secured1 a pair of scissors1 two razors1 a comb and brush and a barber shop was opened4 ,the boys were kind and long suffering1 so the business prospered4 ,thus another term was finished1--and no debt4 ,again during the vacation of #ahhb ,i taught4 ,at the close of this vacation ,i was elected town constable4 ,this was by no means to my liking1 but something had to be done1 or quit4 ,this business frequently broke into my school work and made it hard to keep abreast of the class4 ,however1 in this way ,i managed to pay expenses for the term and saved a few dollars besides4 ,during the vacation of #ahhc ,i taught school near ,denver1 ,n4 ,c41 and in the meantime served as pastor of ,fairfeld ,church4 ,both together made it possible for me to have more money than ,i ever had at one time before4 ,on returning to college at the close of vacation ,i was elected a tutor4 ,in this way ,i earned ten dollars a month and kept up my own studies4 ,this work was more in keeping with my general taste than anything ,i had hitherto tried4 ,it was a fine opportunity to review what ,i had done and was perfectly agreeable to me4 ,the amount thus earned was ample for all my real needs1 and so the difficulties began to give way4 ,hope that had been groping amid the shadows began to mount up1 and resolution grew strong4 ,thus1 sustained by a kind ,providence and encouraged by friends1 my college course was finished4 ,i feel that this would be incomplete were ,i to omit to speak of ,rev4 ,john ,parris1 ,d4,d41 who gave me so much encouragement and help4 ,when ,i was yet a boy1 never having been to school a day1 he1 somehow1 learned that ,i was anxious to read4 ,knowing ,i had no books he would borrow them from ,capt4 ,t4 ,j4 ,norman1 becoming personally responsible for their safe return1 and bring them to me4 ,when bringing them he would say1 8,now1 young sir1 if you damage this book ,i may not bring you another40 ,he not only brought the books1 but would question me on the contents when he returned4 ,he was a man who seemed stern and repulsive to the young1 but when better known was as gentle and sweet spirited1 loving and tender and patient as a mother4 ,mebane1 ,n4 ,c4 ,a ,,task ,,with ,a ,,moral ,,hon4 ,,fred ,j4 ,,traynor1 ,a4,b41 ,,ll4,b4 ,there is nothing remarkable about my experience in working my way through college4 ,i do not deem it worth the telling1 except that it may help to encourage the boy who thinks that it is more than he dares undertake to obtain an education without means to back him4 ,i was born in ,ontario1 ,canada4 ,i was fortunate in being able to get an excellent common school training and three years of high school work before having to get out and dig for myself4 ,since the age of fifteen1 when my father died1 ,i have been at all times self-supporting1 and1 before coming to ,north ,dakota at the age of twenty1 ,i had taken such employment as was obtainable4 ,in the summer of #ahih ,i had saved enough money to make the trip to ,north ,dakota1 looking for opportunities4 ,teaching seemed to be the most feasible stepping-stone1 so that fall1 after having spent three months as a farm laborer in this ,state1 and having saved what ,i had earned1 which1 together with a little ,i had left of what ,i had brought from ,ontario1 made about #ij1 ,i entered the preparatory department then in existence at the ,university of ,north ,dakota4 ,it was a month after the opening of the school year when ,i entered school that year with the idea of taking a winter course for teachers in order that ,i might take the state examinations for a teacher's certificate in the spring4 ,instead of taking the course intended1 however1 ,i fitted in as nearly as ,i could to the regular course of study for the last year of the preparatory department and used what spare time ,i could obtain to study the common branches upon which ,i would have to take examination for a teacher's certificate4 ,by close application to business ,i was able to carry along the regular course of study and also to secure the coveted teacher's certificate in the spring4 ,i left the ,university that spring at the end of the winter term1 ,march #bb1 or thereabouts1 and taught school from then until about the last week in ,october4 ,i left the ,university on ,friday and commenced the term of school on the following ,monday and had no vacation during the summer2 and1 in addition to that1 ,i succeeded in obtaining the permission of the school board that had employed me to teach six days a week during the last five weeks in order that ,i might get back to the ,university a week earlier than otherwise4 ,my salary was #dj per month4 ,i had barely scraped through from ,november #a until ,march #bb on that ninety dollars1 and had to make a loan of twenty dollars from a friend to tide me over until ,i got a month's salary4 ,at the end of the term of school ,i had paid back the #bj and saved about #aaj4 ,during the spring term of the ,university1 while ,i was teaching1 ,i continued my studies as if ,i had been at the ,university1 endeavoring to do the same work that my class-mates at school were doing and reporting from time to time to the professors4 ,i burned midnight oil many nights1 but ,north ,dakota spring weather is healthful and invigorating1 and ,i gained flesh on it and was able to take the examination with my classmates in ,june to get better than a pass mark in all subjects4 ,then ,i commenced on the subjects4 ,i expected to begin on in the fall1 as ,i knew ,i would be about a month late entering college4 ,the story of my life for the next twelve months is much a repetition of the previous year1 except that ,i did not have the extra work of preparing for teacher's examination4 ,i had to borrow about #cf to tide me over until ,i got my first month's salary1 but ,i paid this back during the summer and returned to school late in the fall as usual with about #abj4 ,the following spring1 in fact1 before the winter term had ended1 ,i was 8broke10 as each year seemed a little more costly than the previous4 ,president ,webster ,merrifield1 then and for many years previous at the head of our ,university1 was the good angel who came to my rescue4 ,every boy was his friend and he was the friend of every boy in the institution4 ,always looking for an opportunity to help those he thought worthy1 he divined my need and offered to help me with a loan that would tide me over the spring term4 ,at first ,i declined the tender of aid1 but later thought better of it and accepted a loan of #fj and gave my note1 payable one year after the expected date of my graduation4 ,that summer ,i took a position as timekeeper for an extra gang doing surfacing work on the line of the ,great ,northern ,railway in ,minnesota and returned to school at the opening of the school year that fall with about #ge ahead4 ,the ,university of ,north ,dakota1 at that time1 had about two hundred and fifty students1 including those in the preparatory department4 ,a little book store and postoffice was conducted by students in one of the ,university buildings4 ,president ,merrifield controlled the appointment of the postmaster and manager of the book store1 but the students getting the positions had to finance the book store themselves4 ,i applied for and received appointment in the book store and postoffice1 and retained an interest in it during the three years following4 ,i had to do some skirmishing to borrow #ajj to add to my #ge to provide my share of the capital necessary to make advance payments on our stock of books1 and was denied a loan from friends ,i thought knew me well enough to trust me4 ,again a generous professor in the person of the dean of the college of arts came to my aid and made me the loan4 ,i shall not soon forget his kindness4 ,during those last three years of my college days while completing the courses of arts and law ,i was able1 writing life insurance among the students as a side line in addition to doing my share of the business in the book store and postoffice1 to make my entire expenses and leave school free from debt4 ,devil's ,lake1 ,n4 ,d4 ,,from ,,the ,,university ,,of ,,denver ,,bulletin ,benjamin ,eitelgeorge arrived at ,university ,park the #fth of ,september1 #aije1 ,with #de4jj on hand4 ,he took the severely plain quarters in the basement of ,university ,hall and worked for his room rent and tuition4 ,he did his work well4 ,he went from house to house in search of work for ,saturdays and afternoons4 ,at first no one seemed to need him4 ,later on1 however1 there was all the work offered which he could do1 in house-cleaning and other work1 at twenty cents an hour4 ,he won a prize in that first year and was made head janitor at the college4 ,in the second and third terms he had the care of a cow and a furnace4 ,so the first year closed with a new sense of self-reliance4 ,in the summer he went to summer school1 working for his tuition1 and had the care of a cow1 pony and lawn for his room and #ae4jj per month4 ,in the fall he was made head janitor at #ae4jj per month1 with room rent and tuition added4 ,saturdays he had all the outside work he could do4 ,this brought him through the year in comfort and with a still deeper sense of self-reliance4 ,now he was given charge of the church at ,black ,hawk1 on request of the people there who had heard him preach1 and he has kept that service for four years4 ,indeed1 the people at ,black ,hawk desire to have him appointed as their pastor for life4 ,he now preaches at three places each ,sunday4 ,of course1 this left ,mr4 ,eitelgeorge no opportunity to get into all sorts of college sports4 ,he took part in all inter-class games1 however1 where the object in view is the pure fun of the game4 ,he was active in the debating club1 and made the honorary debating fraternity1 ,tau ,kappa ,alpha4 ,he was conspicuous in all the ,christian activities of the college4 ,mr4 ,eitelgeorge says he enjoyed college life as much as any student who ever went to college1 and that he would not take anything for the experience and satisfaction of having worked his way through college4 ,he was graduated with the ,a4,b4 degree in #aiaa4 ,this sort of discipline creates men who can do things4 ,if ,benjamin ,eitelgeorge were shipwrecked on an island which was peopled by rude savages he would know what to do at once4 ,with a prayer in his heart1 and that everlasting smile on his face1 he would begin at once at the task of creating a ,christian nation out of the raw material4 ,and in twenty-five years he would have trade relations with other countries1 an ambassador of his government at ,washington1 and a ,christian college1 with the whole faculty from the class of #aiaa in the ,university of ,denver4 ,john ,f4 ,sinclair's story reads like a romance4 ,in ,february last he made an address at the ,denver ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 to the high school and working boys on 8,how to ,work ,one's ,way ,through ,college40 ,from that speech the following facts are taken3 ,mr4 ,sinclair came to ,university ,park with ,mr4 ,eitelgeorge from ,new ,mexico in ,september of #aije4 ,he had #bj in his pocket and plenty of pluck1 but with no certain ideas about how he could make a living4 ,he went with ,eitelgeorge in that first canvass for work1 but no one seemed to want them4 ,there were plenty of discouragements at the start1 but presently he had more work offered than he could do4 ,he roomed in the basement of ,university ,hall and did honest work to earn his tuition and room rent4 ,at that time we had a boys' club where the fellows kept in prime condition on two dollars a week4 ,for two years he made his way with odd jobs4 ,he 8waited on tables1 washed dishes1 cooked meals1 scrubbed floors1 washed windows1 cleaned furnaces1 built fires1 chopped wood1 beat rugs 7the most despised job in the curriculum71 cut out weeds1 mowed lawns1 spaded gardens1 painted1 calcimined1 solicited1 sold peanuts and pop-corn1 ran errands1 etc40 ,this sort of discipline for two years made him very self-reliant and resourceful4 ,now he found more permanent sort of work4 ,one year he served as boys' secretary in the ,north ,side ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 ,in another he made good money in charge of a laundry agency4 ,in the following year1 his fifth1 he did janitor work in the city in a down-town office building4 ,in his sixth year he has made a good living in teaching mechanical drawing at night in a country high school and has sold mail boxes4 ,he cleared several hundred dollars in one summer selling books to the farmers in ,kansas4 ,sinclair says that some of his friends have done well in carrying papers on regular routes1 in reporting for newspapers1 in playing musical instruments1 in growing mushrooms and in tutoring4 ,he says jobs come to the fellow who sticks and works4 ,each year he has found it easier than the year before1 and each year he has had more profitable work than the year before4 ,he wears good clothes and lives in a first-class college room now4 ,sinclair played on the college baseball team four years1 and1 of course1 was in all the interclass games of his class4 ,he made his 8,d0 in baseball4 ,he counted it his first duty to make his living1 his next duty to keep a high rank in his classes1 and his third duty to get into such athletic sports as were possible to him and necessary to his health4 ,the popular conception of a student who earns his living is that he is a lank and lean boy who burns the midnight oil in a poor room in an attic4 ,sinclair says he found it profitable and conducive to health to live in an airy room and to sleep seven or eight hours every night4 ,so he has been in superb health every day since he came to college4 ,sinclair believes in concentration and in being wide awake4 ,the rest of this story must be reported in his own words3 8,in spite of my participation in athletics and in other activities1 and although ,i've worked hard for a living1 and even though ,i've never burned the midnight oil and never studied on ,sunday1 yet ,i've made high grades1 averaging over ninety4 ,i count myself only an ordinary chap1 too4 ,get your lessons day by day and you will find time for other important things4 8,i took part in the other activities of the ,university4 ,i sang in the glee club one year2 was a member of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 cabinet almost every year2 was president of the freshman class2 acted as treasurer of the debating club2 served on the students' commission2 was yell-master last fall2 and besides was actively engaged in church work4 ,it is the old story that the more you do the more time you find in which to do4 ,this active school life prepares one for strenuous life in the world4 ,however1 there is great danger in overdoing this matter4 ,college life should be secondary to your studies4 ,we go to college to learn and we must not sacrifice our mental and spiritual training for minor things4 ,a man should not neglect his social training1 either1 but this1 too1 is a secondary matter4 8,the working student is treated as a social equal by most people in most colleges4 ,i have never been snubbed4 ,on the contrary1 ,i have become a member of one of the national fraternities2 ,i have dined with a professor's family often2 when ,i was janitor in the city the people called me ,mr4 ,sinclair and not ,mr4 ,janitor2 ,i was welcome company to the best girls in college4 ,a working student is highly respected if he conducts himself as a gentleman should4 8,in conclusion ,i would offer these suggestions3 ,if you have a strong desire to secure an education1 to serve the world efficiently1 and are free from ill health and family encumbrances1 go to some educational institution with a determination to stick it out4 ,have faith in yourself1 in your fellow-men1 and in ,god4 ,if you are a ,christian your struggle will not be so hard4 ,i cannot give too much weight to my religion as a factor in making my college work successful and my life happy4 ,i doubt whether ,i could have withstood without my faith in ,god40 ,,the ,,fraternity ,,of ,,workers ,,rev4 ,,edward ,,van ,,ruschen1 ,a4,b4 ,during the winter of #ahig-h1 after a campaign lasting for more than two years1 ,i came to my last stand and finally surrendered to the call of ,jesus ,christ to enter the ,gospel ministry4 ,i had completed the eighth grade in my fourteenth year and had spent two or three years working with my father at the carpenter's trade4 ,i began now to gather information about colleges and the cost of getting an education4 ,i soon found that to wait until ,i could earn enough money to pay my way through college would take a long time4 ,i had no friends or relatives to help me pay even a part of such an expense1 and ,i realized that ,i must either work my way through or give up my vocation4 ,the long and bitter struggle that preceded my decision to become a minister left me but one alternative4 ,i was determined to get an education which would fit me for the work ,i had chosen4 ,i felt that a minister must know men as well as books1 and that whatever would give me a touch with folks as they are would add to future efficiency4 ,i liked work1 carpenter work or any other kind4 ,i had never known what it was not to work1 even as a child1 and so it was but natural that ,i should look about for an opportunity to work while attending school4 ,this is why ,i worked my way through college4 ,one man's need is often another's opportunity4 ,in the fall of #ahih the ,synod of ,south ,dakota found it necessary to close its university at ,pierre1 after a long struggle against great odds4 ,it was finally decided that its academy at ,scotland should also be closed and a new institution started at ,huron1 the best location available4 ,huron had a large four-story brick hotel building unoccupied for several years4 ,this building became the home of the synod's new educational venture and became known as ,huron ,college4 ,rev4 ,c4 ,h4 ,french1 the ,president of ,scotland ,academy1 became the new president of ,synod's ,college4 ,i had become acquainted with ,president ,french during the summer of #ahih1 and with the opening of ,huron ,college he found an opportunity for me to help put the old hotel building in shape4 ,so it happened that ,i landed in ,huron1 ,south ,dakota1 about ,december #a1 #ahih1 having about #be in money and my chest of tools4 ,i went to work at once repairing and remodeling the college building1 and for five years ,i was the college carpenter 7ex-officio74 ,i had been there about two weeks when one of the boys1 ,ray ,scofield1 found a place for me in a small hotel where ,i received room and board for three or four hours' work a day waiting on tables1 buying provisions1 etc4 ,i remained in this hotel three school years4 ,railroad men and other common laborers were the boarders at this hotel1 and ,i learned to know this class of men in a very intimate way4 ,odd jobs of carpenter work1 or perchance scrubbing office floors1 carrying coal1 cleaning rugs or cutting wood1 added a little now and then to my cash account4 ,during the first two summer vacations ,i worked with my father and helped him to carry the unequal burdens of life4 ,during the summer of #aijj ,i read ,latin in the evenings and made up one year's required work in that subject1 thus enabling me to graduate from the academy department the following commencement4 ,in the spring of #ahii ,i signed the ,student ,volunteer ,declaration1 and began to look forward to service on foreign mission fields4 ,i had become active in ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 work1 and became treasurer of the local association4 ,during the fall ,i began to give talks to ,sunday schools held in country schoolhouses1 and in ,december1 #aijj1 ,i took charge of a country church about thirty-five miles from ,huron1 preaching regularly every two weeks4 ,often the alternate ,sunday would find me supplying some other pulpit near ,huron4 ,this added a little to my income1 and gave me plenty of opportunity for studying different kinds of people as well as learning how to reach them through preaching4 ,from this time forward there was rarely a ,sunday that ,i was not out of the city preaching somewhere4 ,the school year of #aija-b ,i spent at home working with my father1 though ,i continued to preach on ,sundays4 ,when ,i returned to my school work in the fall of #aijb ,i was absent from my classes for over a month at the request of the president1 in order that ,i might be able to fit up additional dormitory rooms on the fourth floor4 ,i might have paid my way through college that year1 but my habits of work made the boarding club less desirable for me4 ,i rented a room in a private home and secured work at a large caf where ,i received my board for waiting at table three hours a day4 ,i took great delight in study1 just for its own sake1 and found in my outside work a wholesome check to the tendency to forget that books and real people are often very far apart4 ,the claims of both were ever present with me1 and to respond to them both ,i found it necessary to keep on working4 ,that became another reason why ,i worked my way through college4 ,there are perhaps few men in whom poverty extinguishes the desire to give to others4 ,it is one of the prerogatives of free sovereign manhood to bestow gifts on others4 ,this is one of the primitive instincts that remains amid the evolutionary changes of the human race4 ,under the influence of ,jesus it has become a form of the highest act of worship4 ,it was this impulse that led me to form habits of giving in college4 ,in looking over my college accounts now1 ,i find that during those seven years ,i gave to church1 missions1 ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 and other objects from #ejj to #hjj in money4 ,in addition ,i paid my own expenses to the ,student ,summer ,conferences at ,lake ,geneva1 ,wis41 three times1 attended the ,international ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 ,convention at ,buffalo1 ,n4 ,y41 and the ,international ,student ,volunteer ,convention at ,toronto1 ,ont41 all at my own expense4 ,at the close of my college work ,i had a library of several hundred volumes4 ,now1 after eight years1 ,i can look back and feel that were ,i to do it over again ,i would1 without hesitation1 follow a similar plan4 ,i am now finding almost constantly that my college experiences are to my advantage in many ways4 ,to the young men and women who may read this brief story ,i would say3 ,be never afraid of work1 but honor it by doing it in the very best manner possible4 ,add to your strength1 efficiency1 to efficiency a noble purpose1 and with it all be loyal to ,jesus ,christ whose moral grandeur and spiritual transcendence have made the honest laborer a member of the world's best aristocracy4 ,in the hope that this story may nerve another for the struggle to breast the current which sweeps humanity onward1 'mid hopes and fears1 'mid agonies and tears1 to destinies unknown2 and with the prayer that the vision of far off success may inspire another to do and dare in the search after ,education's ,holy ,grail1 ,i send forth this little message to all who belong to the great fraternity of ,workers4 ,plankinton1 ,s4 ,d4 ,,how ,,the ,,physical ,,side ,,helped ,,hon4 ,,frank ,c4 ,,wade1 ,,ll4,b4 ,in the summer of #aijc1 at the age of twenty-five and with very little high school training1 ,i determined to go to college4 ,i had no money and my people were too poor to give me anything but encouragement4 ,i had taught one country school and spent one summer in the ,west selling maps1 but the most ,i could scrape together1 in addition to experience1 was a slight equipment of clothing and #cj in money4 ,with these stored in my old trunk1 ,i landed in ,bloomington1 ,indiana1 a few days early to report for football practice and to look for work4 ,i was given a try-out at football before any arrangement was made for permanent quarters4 ,i shall never forget that first afternoon football practice4 ,nature had been kind to me in giving me a strong body and good judgment1 and ,i felt ,i could tackle any fellow that ever carried the pig-skin4 ,i was well seasoned1 having spent the summer working on the section1 and it was lucky that ,i was4 ,we kicked and fell on the ball for a while and then the coach lined us up for a little line-bucking4 ,this was in the days when the line man on the football team selected his opponent who played opposite him and fought it out with him4 ,the modern1 open and better style of football had not yet invaded the game4 ,i had always played the position of tackle and it was there ,i was tried out that first afternoon4 ,captain ,clevenger took the back field to run down punts and ,coach 8,jimmie0 ,horn took us heavyweights for a little line-bucking4 ,i happened to be the only lineman that was an unknown quantity to 8,jimmie0 and he promptly proceeded to get acquainted1 in the peculiar way that coaches sometimes have4 ,he first lined me up against 8,cube10 but as he was fat and soft from his summer vacation1 he was put to snapping the ball and ,smith1 ,shirk and ,i tried it4 ,i was not tried out much on the defensive that day but was asked to open up a hole between that big tackle and guard for the man who was coming through with the ball just behind me4 ,we worked at that for about an hour4 ,i do not know how well ,i succeeded but there never was a time after that first practice that ,i ever feared losing a place on the team4 ,the coach and manager knew of my financial condition and1 as that was the days of the training table1 my first job was purveyor for the training table4 ,it was really the best snap ,i ever had4 ,all ,i had to do was to collect the money from the other fellows at the end of the week and turn it over to the manager4 ,things moved along well until the football season was over and the training table broke up4 ,i then took the job of waiting on a table and washing dishes at one of the high-priced boarding clubs4 ,this lasted until ,i was given a job by a friend4 ,one ,sunday afternoon when ,i was feeling unusually blue1 because of the fact that my books and incidentals had drawn very heavily on my #cj college fund1 one of my friends1 a senior by the name of ,payne1 called in to see me4 ,just as he was leaving he handed me a #e bill and said that 8,jake0 ,buskirk had sent it to me and said to tell me that he admired my playing and wanted to make me a little present4 ,i shall never forget the feeling ,i had when ,i realized that it meant he was giving me #e4 ,i was overjoyed at getting the much needed five1 but studied for a long time whether ,i should keep it or return it4 ,i felt a little like ,i was being bribed4 ,however1 when ,i invoiced my assets the feeling somewhat subsided and ,i decided to keep it1 but for a long time ,i told only one or two of my very best friends about it4 ,that was the first ,i knew there was such a fellow as 8,jake0 ,buskirk1 but the next afternoon at practice1 in compliance with his promise1 my friend ,payne was there and gave me a real introduction to 8,jake40 ,i do not know just what ,i said2 ,i only know that ,i tried to thank him and thought that he looked like the best man ,i had ever seen4 ,i met him a number of times afterwards that season and later became very intimately acquainted with him and ,i have never yet changed my first opinion of him4 ,before ,christmas 8,jake0 asked me how ,i would like to come up and stay with him and take care of his furnace and horse4 ,he explained that he had a large roomy house and could fix up a room for me without much trouble4 ,i was glad of the opportunity and made my home with his family1 which consisted of himself1 his good wife1 one of those splendid ,southern ladies1 and his two boys1 ,kearney and ,nat4 ,at the end of the winter term1 however1 my money was gone and my clothes were worn4 ,i determined to leave school and work until the beginning of the following year4 ,during my short stay at ,bloomington1 ,i had met and made many friends who were anxious to assist me in any way they could4 ,when ,i left school ,i took a job as brakeman on the ,illinois ,central1 but as ,i had to provide for extra board ,i made very little more than expenses4 ,when school opened in the fall ,i accepted a position as teacher in the city schools of ,linton1 ,indiana4 ,in the spring of #aije ,i learned through some of my friends at ,bloomington that there would be an opening in the ,co-,op1 the university book store4 ,i immediately applied for the position and obtained it4 ,i had saved up a little money and stocked up in clothes4 ,when ,i entered school in the fall of #aije ,i felt like a new man1 full of hope4 ,the ,co-,op was a book store owned and operated by the ,university for the benefit of the students and1 aside from a business manager who was a member of the ,university office force1 it was managed by students4 ,it took three to run it4 ,by dividing our time we were able to attend our classes and keep the ,co-,op open from nine to twelve in the morning1 and from two to five in the afternoon4 ,we were paid on a per cent4 basis4 ,with what money ,i could make during my vacations ,i was able to graduate in the class of #aijh1 receiving the degree of ,,ll4,b4 ,we do not go to college merely to develop our mental self1 but we have a physical and social self which ,i believe is as essential to train and develop while in college as is the mental4 ,i have always been a large1 strong physical fellow and many of my less fortunate companions have laughed at the notion that my college training has helped me physically2 but1 my college has done as much for me both physically and socially as it did mentally1 and ,i believe the former two are as important elements in a young man's make-up as is the latter4 ,thanks to my college athletics1 ,i contracted physical and mental habits that have made me a better and more useful man and ,i think will prolong life several years4 ,i was one of the more fortunate self-supporting men while in college and1 while ,i do not disclaim all credit for sticking to it and pulling through1 yet ,i often wonder if ,i would to-day be the proud possessor of a college diploma had ,i been small of stature and not able to make good on the gridiron4 ,fredonia1 ,kans4 ,,the ,,way ,,always ,,open ,c4 ,m4 ,,walters1 ,a4,b41 ,,ph4,b41 ,m4,a41 ,m4,d4 ,after attending the ,burlington ,high ,school one year and spending all the money ,i had except one dollar1 ,i decided to take a business course in ,elon ,college4 ,i arranged with ,dr4 ,j4 ,u4 ,newman1 ,dean of the ,faculty1 to get my tuition1 room rent1 fuel1 and light for ringing the ,college bell4 ,i also collected and distributed laundry to help pay my expenses4 ,with the money collected in this way and from doing other small jobs about the ,college1 ,i succeeded in paying all my expenses for the first five months except #fe4 ,i secured my diploma in the ,business ,course in ,june1 #aijj4 ,realizing that my preparation in ,english was not sufficient for me to command the best positions in the business world1 ,i decided to take the regular college course4 ,so in ,september1 #aijj1 my brother and ,i organized the first boarding ,club at ,elon ,college4 ,i was elected manager to collect for board1 buy all provisions1 hire a cook1 and have general oversight of the ,club1 all for the small salary of one dollar a week4 ,i still held my job as laundry agent1 but ,i gave up my position as bell boy for the ,college4 ,by sweeping1 dusting1 lighting1 and building fires in the ,psiphelian ,society ,hall ,i made twenty-five cents a week4 ,i was also janitor for the ,philologian ,society part of the time at the same salary1 and two years later when the acetylene gas lights took the place of the old oil lamps in the ,society ,halls1 ,i had charge of the gas generator1 which paid one dollar a month4 ,i also made stretchers for the art room and did other small jobs of carpenter work1 cut wood1 and did most any little job ,i could get to do to make money4 ,of course ,i didn't have any time for play1 but ,i worked enough to get plenty of exercise and graduated in four years with high honor4 ,i gave notes for my tuition except for the last year4 ,i was laboratory director during my senior year1 which paid my tuition4 ,from the time ,i was a small boy in the public school1 too young to study ,physiology1 when the class recited ,i would stop studying and listen to them and long for the time to come when ,i could study medicine4 ,this dream was realized in the fall of #aijd when ,i entered the ,university of ,north ,carolina1 and began the four years of hard work which was required to get my ,m4,d4 ,it was during the ,christmas examinations of this year that my eyes failed1 due partly to using a microscope too much1 besides the hard strain of late study hours4 ,i could not see how to read1 but ,i managed to get some one to read for me and ,i passed my examinations4 ,during my second year at ,chapel ,hill1 ,i secured boarders1 collected for board1 and kept books for a regular boarding house to help pay my board4 ,i also acted as laundry agent1 managed a pressing club1 and taught ,english and ,latin to medical students who did not have sufficient preparation in these branches to study medicine4 ,my last years in the medical course were spent at the ,university of ,maryland4 ,the first year ,i distributed tickets and posters for the ,city ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 meetings during my spare hours1 for which work ,i received #b4ej a week4 ,there was so much walking in this ,i would be so tired at night that ,i could not study1 so ,i soon gave it up and devoted all my time to my books4 ,i secured an appointment as medical assistant in the hospital 7which was awarded to the best students in the class71 for my senior year4 ,owing to the difficulty we had in securing good board near the hospital my class mates persuaded me to organize another boarding ,club1 which ,i managed for a few months2 but because my hospital work required so much time1 ,i had to turn it over to someone else4 ,i graduated with the class of #aijh from the ,university of ,maryland and passed the ,state ,board examination in ,june of the same year1 and located at ,union ,ridge1 ,n4 ,c41 where ,i have enjoyed a very lucrative practice4 ,i have been asked to write this for the benefit of other young men who are working their way through school4 ,while it has been a hard struggle1 and ,i have seen a few dark days when it seemed that ,i would have to give up for want of means to go forward2 still when the time came that ,i had to have money1 ,i always found some way to make it or some friend kind enough to lend it to me4 ,so my college career has been a very pleasant one4 ,union ,ridge1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,the ,,victory ,,that ,,overcometh ,,the ,,world ,,rev4 ,e4 ,a4 ,,watkins1 ,a4,b41 ,a4,m41 ,d4,d4 ,,president ,,palmer ,,college ,i have been asked to tell the young people of to-day how ,i planned to meet college expenses without money with which to start4 ,in the hope that some young man may be encouraged to undertake the task of securing a good preparation for life1 whether he has any money or not1 ,i am giving a brief outline of the struggle ,i had to secure what little training ,i happen to have for life's responsible duties4 ,i was born and reared on the farm4 ,from my childhood1 ,i had impressions that ,god wanted me to be a minister of the ,gospel1 and had always expected to make the necessary preparation1 and give my life to the task of this kind of special ,christian work4 ,i had finished the graded school of my neighborhood1 and had done one year's work in high school1 when1 in the following summer1 ,i injured my spine permanently by riding on a harvesting machine over some very rough ground4 ,this occurred when ,i was seventeen years of age1 and for nearly ten years ,i suffered intensely from this misfortune2 the greater part of the time unable to earn a dollar4 ,during this period1 ,i became discouraged and decided to give up the idea of ever being able to secure the training that would fit me for my chosen work1 and finally decided to turn my attention to some other pursuit4 ,at this time ,i married the woman who must be given the credit for the greater part of what little success ,i may have had4 ,after ,i had spent nearly ten years casting about to adjust myself to my surroundings1 ,i somewhat recovered from my injury and again turned my thoughts to the ministry4 8,there is a divinity that shapes our ends10 after all2 a ,siamese missionary came to ,old ,charity ,chapel1 in ,shelby ,county1 ,ohio1 my home church1 and told the story of the ,cross4 ,i do not remember a word he said1 but ,i do know that he inspired me with a new vision and a new determination to undertake the task for which ,i felt that ,god had endowed me2 and out in the barn1 on the old home farm1 ,i settled the question and decided that ,god would have to lead the way4 ,i had spent practically all the money that had come into my hands1 seeking to recover from the harvester accident4 ,that summer ,i earned a little money and on the first of ,september ,i had just #cc saved up1 with which to start to college4 ,i lived #abe miles from ,merom1 ,ind41 but ,i had decided the matter1 and the limited amount of money could play no important part in my purposes4 ,i had entered a little partnership with ,god1 as the senior member of the firm1 and ,i was only to furnish the effort1 consecration1 application1 toil and faith1 and ,he was to furnish the balance4 ,how well ,he played ,his part1 subsequent events have told4 ,on the fourth of ,september1 #ahih1 with this small sum of money1 #cc1 in my pocket1 my wife and ,i went to ,merom1 ,ind41 where ,i entered ,union ,christian ,college4 ,tuition must be paid1 room rent must be provided for1 and we must both be provided with board4 ,dr4 ,l4 ,j4 ,aldrich1 the president of the college1 assisted us in finding suitable quarters1 and also assisted us in finding some suitable employment for the wife4 ,she secured employment at the ,harper ,house1 where several of the students boarded1 ,i boarding at the ,college ,club1 which was much cheaper4 ,she earned enough to pay her own board and mine4 ,thus we were able to live very comfortably for a while4 ,but after a little1 several of the boarders left the ,harper ,house1 and she lost her place4 ,nothing opened for us then1 and it seemed for a time that we would have to return home4 ,these were dark days and our faith was tried4 ,at last ,i went to ,president ,aldrich and laid the matter before him4 ,after going into the details of the situation1 he thrust his hand in his pocket and gave me a #bj bill4 ,i never saw #bj look as big as it did that night4 ,he told me to take it and make it go as far as possible1 and pay it back when ,i was able4 ,arrangements were made by which we could pay tuition and room rent the next summer and the good wife secured a place where we roomed1 earning her board by assisting the family with household duties4 ,i earned a little supplying for some of the ministers then at ,merom and by holding a revival during the vacation4 ,but this was not sufficient to pay necessary expenses4 ,i borrowed #bj of my brother1 and then1 to make ends meet1 ,i reduced the number of meals at the club and ate only breakfast and dinner1 in order to reduce the cost of board to #a4aj per week4 ,during the remainder of the year1 ,i did not eat supper1 and because ,i was denied this luxury1 the wife also refused to eat supper1 and thus we passed away the evening hours1 just over the kitchen1 where the tempting flavors from the supper table below came up through our room1 to add to our hunger4 ,the following summer ,i canvassed for a magazine in ,piqua1 ,ohio1 and sold nearly #ejj subscriptions1 and earned enough to pay all the debts ,i had contracted during my year at ,union ,christian ,college4 ,during this summer vacation ,i was called to preach at ,houston1 ,ohio1 where my father had preached forty years before4 ,this was within #ajj miles of ,antioch ,college1 and in the fall we went to ,antioch1 ,yellow ,springs1 took up our abode in two of the old south dormitory rooms1 and ,i entered the ,academy for a course of study4 ,our income was small and a large part of that must be spent for car-fare4 ,again the good wife proved a helpmeet indeed1 by very materially assisting in taking care of the expenses4 ,however1 we had to live without meat and other luxuries4 ,i continued at ,antioch three years1 at which time ,i went to ,muncie1 ,ind41 and entered the ,new ,palmer ,university1 and remained there until ,mr4 ,palmer's death1 two years later1 which made necessary the closing of the school4 ,during this time ,i went out and preached on ,sunday and returned to my work on ,monday4 ,we then went to ,defiance1 ,ohio1 and entered ,defiance ,college and continued there two years and graduated in the class of '#jg1 after which we went to ,cincinnati ,university1 where ,i entered the ,graduate ,school and in the spring of #aijh received the ,master of ,arts degree1 receiving the honor of being one out of four who carried an average grade of 8,a0 in five courses out of six4 ,during my course of study in these institutions ,i received in gifts from friends not more than #be4 ,i suppose that during this period we spent not less than #cjj for doctor bills4 ,but through it all ,god has opened the way4 ,there were times when it seemed that we would have to give up the quest1 times when we did not know whether we could make ends meet longer or not4 ,it was not smooth sailing nor was it an open sea4 ,but it has been worth while4 ,as ,i see it now1 it developed those elements of character that serve one best when obstacles mountain-high appear before him4 ,those years are the best investment of my life4 ,if ,i had it to do over again1 ,i would be willing to sail the same choppy sea1 rather than face life without that little ,i succeeded in gathering up during those years of struggle4 ,humbly submitted for the good of 8somebody's boy40 ,albany1 ,mo4 ,,opportunities ,,make ,,us ,,known ,,professor ,,wm4 ,f4 ,h4 ,,wentzel1 ,b4,s41 ,m4,s4 ,i was born in a humble home in the backwoods of ,berks ,county1 ,pennsylvania4 ,i had few companions outside of school hours in the little country school where we studied in ,english and played in ,german4 ,i had no one of intimate acquaintance who had any appreciation of higher education or of professional life4 ,the awakening of a moderate ambition was largely due to the influence of a devoted mother and an inspiring teacher4 ,with three months' cramming in a summer normal1 ,i changed from a student to a teacher in the little red school house4 ,during the long vacations that followed ,i attended ,perkiomen ,seminary1 where ,i was graduated in #aijb4 ,when ,i passed my twenty-fifth birthday ,i had given eight years of service to our schools at a salary of #bch per year4 ,i had paid for my preparatory education and had saved #bjj4 ,at this time ,i also had signed an anti-saloon petition which efficiently barred me from further employment in the same school4 ,this predicament put me to thinking what would be the next best step4 ,my prep4 school was an excellent eye-opener for college possibilities for poor boys1 yet ,i never before realized what it could mean to me4 ,however1 in one month after my downfall ,i was making my exodus to the ,pennsylvania ,state ,college4 ,i was without a friend that could give me advice or direct me to means by which a young man might work his way4 ,my #bjj was dwindling to a small margin as ,i got my equipment of books1 uniform1 instruments1 fees1 board1 room1 etc4 ,i soon hailed an opportunity to husk corn on ,saturdays4 ,time progressed slowly1 work became scarce1 football enthusiasm rose to a high pitch4 ,most of the boys were planning a trip to see our team face its foremost rival of the season4 ,it seemed evident that a three to five dollar outlay on such a trip could not include me4 ,there were more meetings1 music1 yells1 and speeches2 and the fellow who refused to go either had poor spirit or he felt real mean4 ,i was one of those who felt mean4 ,so did my room-mate4 ,we raised a question and forth came the solution4 ,i suggested that we go at the lowest possible outlay4 ,on the morning of the game when the band led the march to the depot we were in line4 ,the enthusiasm and the victory seemed to be fully worth the price4 ,when the noon hour arrived and the boys resorted to the hotels1 chum and ,i sauntered down along the railroad1 secured a box of crackers1 and with some dried beef that ,i had brought from home1 we made the noon-day meal4 ,on our return to college we proceeded to work out the balance of the program3 that was to board ourselves until we had saved the amount4 ,with a tin tomato can hung above our student lamp as a cooking outfit we proceeded with our experiment in domestic science from ,thanksgiving to ,christmas4 ,we were so elated with the success and the economy that we returned with well packed trunks after ,christmas and continued the experiment until ,commencement week1 when we both secured positions as waiters4 ,this scheme made a nice saving1 as it cost us less than #a4be per week each for our board4 ,i waited on tables for my board for the remaining three years of my college course4 ,the first year closed with my financial rating #bjj less than it was at the opening of the school year4 ,it was the close of my hardest year4 ,with my fragmentary preparation and several entrance conditions ,i found it necessary to work to the limit of my ability1 mentally and physically4 ,i adapted my summer vacation to my needs and divided my time between farm work and canvassing for the 8,wearever0 ,aluminum ,cooking ,utensil ,company4 ,i saved enough to equip myself with clothing1 books1 etc41 to start my next school year4 ,i started the work without definite plans for the finances of the year4 ,i gave some assistance to a student agent selling drawing instruments4 ,this line of work put me in touch with the commercial possibilities for a student to earn his way4 ,i noted the pennant agent1 the pin agent1 the clothing agent1 the laundry agent1 etc4 ,yet was ,i too sensitive of my backwoods instincts to move myself from the outside of this field to a top notch competitor with upper class agents4 ,various college activities seemed to prevail upon my time and ,i could not curb that inner desire to be active along these lines when the finance seemed to be within my control4 ,however1 in my junior year ,i accepted partnership in the drawing instrument business which netted me a considerable income for the opening week of the school year4 ,in my senior year ,i made my only real commercial venture4 ,i gave security for my stock and took #a1jjj worth of instruments on the field4 ,i secured a store room where ,i had a good window display1 took in second-hand uniforms1 which ,i sold on commission1 and1 too1 late in my college career1 ,i learned the commercial possibilities open to the student who will do things in a business way4 ,i gave students from #bj per cent4 to #dj per cent4 discount on instruments and yet cleared enough in two weeks to aid me greatly in my senior year4 ,amongst other means of support ,i shall mention a few of a general type4 ,i was chapel monitor for over two years which was worth one dollar per week4 ,for two years ,i was marshal in my lodging house1 which reduced my room rent4 ,i worked in the library and took advantage of many minor opportunities4 ,my summer vacations were spent similarly to the first one4 ,throughout the course ,i always was within a margin of the means at my command4 ,you will note that my financial career at college was rather promiscuous1 without plan or system4 ,i therefore hope to make this sketch doubly helpful by adding a discussion on 8advice0 and another on 8college activities40 ,a little experience in earning1 saving1 and learning the value of a dollar before entering college never comes amiss4 ,however1 the fellow who puts off college entrance because he enjoys fair earnings1 or because he wishes to accumulate a comfortable sum1 usually never gets there4 ,don't expect too much in earning ability during your first term at college4 ,it is far more important to make a good start intellectually1 as that is the paramount business in college attendance4 ,it is one of the sad things to see a young man give up in discouragement because he failed to place emphasis on application to study4 ,therefore1 when entering college1 plan to give the first few months to the college business without direct interference by any other obligations or diversions4 ,plans for the first year's finance might include an attempt to locate friends at college who might aid in finding a waitership or some other work that does not break directly4 ,such work at the start should not be discouraging1 as those places naturally belong to older students who have worked up to the situation4 ,it is well to recognize that others have rights and needs similar to your own4 ,again to start1 as one who is given a preference by pull1 is not the most agreeable situation4 ,another first year plan is the securing of agency privileges from some good firm1 let's say for college jewelry4 ,several weeks before ,christmas vacation1 when your work is well in hand and your acquaintance with classmates established1 first canvass your classmates1 then other students1 for the holiday orders4 ,during one week it is possible to do your studying while others play and your canvassing while others study4 ,in a large college such a canvass may net #ajj profit4 ,as business acquaintance and reputation grows1 other lines can be added and much trade comes with limited effort4 ,i look upon the tutoring opportunity as one of the errors of my college efforts4 ,i mean by this1 my neglect to give it any attention4 ,my advice to a young man is3 work up your class standing from the beginning1 especially in subjects where others are wont to fall4 ,it may take excess time at first1 but it makes easy sailing later1 and the more you earn the stronger you become as a student2 a fact which is usually to the contrary in other financial means at a student's command4 ,it is also rather lucrative as students make it net from #ej cents to #e and #aj or more per hour4 ,vacation specialties are a boon to many a student canvasser4 ,it is not undesirable for any student to try his hand in dealing with people of various types4 ,however1 it is remarkable how many students fail in successful canvassing4 ,the nervous strain on the fellow that fails1 while he feels the waste of much needed time and money1 is great and has a tendency to crush out even the little ambition that remains4 ,vacation work should be rest from mental strain1 it should be open air work1 and it should be in a measure manual4 ,it is hoped that the reader will note that money is not the only nor even the first consideration in a wisely planned effort to work his way through college4 8,college ,activities0 may seem an oddity in this discussion4 ,i pity the student who thinks because he is poor he should get all and give nothing4 ,i had a college debt of #djj when ,i finished1 but the energy put into non-required college activities would have canceled the debt several times4 ,for four years ,i served on the ,intercollegiate ,debating ,team1 during which time my ,alma ,mater rose from last place to first in the ,league4 ,for two years ,i was a member of my class debating team4 ,in my junior year ,i served as editor-in-chief of the college annual published by the class4 ,at the close of that same year ,i took first place in the ,junior ,oratorical ,contest4 ,in religious work ,i had charge of ,bible groups for three years1 was treasurer of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 in my junior year and president in my senior year4 ,at the close of my course ,i was elected a member of 8,phi ,kappa ,phi10 and was chosen valedictorian of my class4 ,catch my creed4 ,there is no harm in a little college debt4 ,be willing to give as well as desirous to receive4 ,if you are in want make an honest effort to find the means necessary1 but thereafter place your college above the dollar and the good time4 ,there is nothing seriously wrong with the fellow who accumulates a thousand above expenses during a college course1 but if he fails to give a reasonable portion of his energy to the higher purposes of his ,alma ,mater1 the fruit of his work is chaff rather than grain4 ,california1 ,penn4 ,,making ,,play ,,out ,,of ,,work ,a4 ,l4 ,m4 ,,wiggins1 ,a4,b4 ,the same problem confronted me that confronts the great majority of college boys when they decide to go to college--the financial one4 ,three financial plans were open4 ,i could borrow the money necessary for a college course and pay it back after completing the course1 or ,i could work two or three years and save the necessary amount before going4 ,the only other course open was to earn my expenses as ,i went4 ,any one of these plans would have incurred a hardship1 so ,i selected a part of all three of them4 ,i am convinced that this was the very best course4 ,the day ,i decided to go to college1 twelve months before ,i entered1 ,i was financially about even with the world4 ,by good luck and close saving during this following year my savings amounted to five hundred dollars1 which represented my total capital when ,i entered the ,university of ,north ,carolina4 ,as a freshman1 ,i had very few opportunities to make money1 and by the end of the year my capital was reduced to one hundred and fifty dollars4 ,a position the following summer on a weekly newspaper netted expenses and experience1 and ,i therefore started back the next year with only the hundred and fifty4 ,expenses were provided for this year by means of work with the ,university ,press and the management of a boarding house4 ,newspaper reporting furnished a few dollars and some good experience1 and a campaign for subscriptions to a popular magazine was also productive4 ,about this time ,i found it necessary to use my original hundred and fifty for an object not connected with college1 and so it was paid out4 ,but the end of the session found me practically even financially and with all debts paid4 ,at the beginning of my junior year1 ,i had less than one dollar capital4 ,the management of the ,press was given me at this time at a salary of sixty-five dollars a month1 and ,i continued to manage a boarding house4 ,a number of side schemes1 including the management of telegraphic athletic reports1 selling advertising novelties1 newspaper reporting1 an interest in a fruit store1 etc41 brought in irregular but substantial returns4 ,during this year ,i managed to meet all expenses and save about three hundred dollars4 ,this amount added to a lot of nerve with which ,i borrowed twelve hundred more1 gave me capital for an investment1 which later netted a profit of two hundred and fifty dollars4 ,during the following summer1 ,i spent the three hundred in traveling and entered my senior year without a cent but the two hundred and fifty1 which was tied up in such a way that ,i couldn't get it for some time4 ,i leased the print shop this year and did other work such as selling shoes1 advertisements1 visiting cards1 etc4 ,the larger part of my time this year being taken up with some of the more strenuous 8college activities10 my income was cut down and it was necessary for me to borrow less than a hundred dollars from the ,university4 ,at graduation1 ,i could have paid off all debts1 and had left two hundred dollars or more4 ,,financial ,,statement4 ,total amount spent during four years with amount of scholarship included 7time includes three vacations7 #b1gjj ,cash on hand at beginning #ejj ,value of ,scholarship #bdj #gdj --------------- ,total #gdj ,balance #a1ifj ,investment 7later realized7 #bej --------------- ,total earned during college course4 #b1baj ,from this statement it is clear that ,i spent much more money than was necessary4 ,five hundred dollars could have been saved out of this amount if ,i had cut out a few of the luxuries1 but as the money was earned1 ,i felt free to spend it4 ,my conclusions and advice are that any boy can go through college if he is prepared to enter and is willing to work4 ,the working college boy is the happiest because he is always busy and doesn't have time to get blue4 ,he can enjoy his pleasures without thinking that he will some day have to pay the money back4 ,his activities are so diversified that they do not become monotonous1 and making money becomes to him as much sport as playing baseball4 ,he can go broke for three weeks and sell a few books to raise money for a midnight lunch and have more fun out of it than another boy with a barrel of money and a new automobile4 ,all it takes for a boy to go through college without money is nerve to try it1 grit to stick to it1 and a happy attitude toward life to enjoy it4 ,hartsville1 ,s4 ,c4 ,,nothing ,,succeeds ,,like ,,success ,,miss ,,agnes ,r4 ,,wright1 ,b4,a4 ,the ,university of ,wyoming situated at ,laramie1 ,wyoming1 on the broad plains which roll away to the hills and blue mountains capped with snowy peaks1 is surrounded by an air of freeness and democracy characteristic of this great equal-suffrage ,state4 ,after finishing the preparatory course of the ,university1 ,i was determined to complete the fours years of college2 and1 thus in the fall of #aiji1 ,i found myself a freshman in the ,college of ,liberal ,arts of the ,university of ,wyoming4 ,my home was on a ranch some twenty-five miles out of ,laramie4 ,i therefore accepted gratefully the opportunity of staying with my aunts in town in order that ,i might go to school4 ,dr4 ,grace ,raymond ,hebard1 ,professor of ,political ,economy and ,librarian at the ,university1 made me her assistant in the library4 ,through the fours years of my college course ,dr4 ,hebard1 who is a noble woman1 was my guide1 philosopher1 and friend1 helping me in every way possible4 ,i remained assistant librarian through my entire course with a raise in salary each year4 ,since my salary from this source was not sufficient to meet all my expenses1 and believing thoroughly in grasping every opportunity1 ,dr4 ,hebard urged me to try for some of the literary prizes in the ,university4 ,the first one ,i tried for was an essay on the 8,overland ,trail in ,wyoming40 ,i worked on this essay during one of my summer vacations and in the fall received the prize of #ej4 ,other prizes which ,i was successful enough to win were3 8,a ,place in ,wyoming ,worthy of a ,monument10 #aj2 8,opportunities ,wyoming ,offers to ,technically ,trained ,men and ,women10 #be1 two times1 7different years7 making #ej2 8,principles of ,free ,government10 7two times7 making #ej2 a short story contest at the ,state ,fair1 second prize1 #ej4 ,this essay work not only gave me experience in writing and some valuable information1 but also meant a great deal in a financial way4 ,it was necessary in connection with the library work that ,i take typewriting4 ,with the practice gained in the library1 together with the work in class1 ,i was able to typewrite fairly well at the end of the first year4 ,many times ,i made a little extra money doing typewriting4 ,on one occasion ,i made #b4ej for four hours of such work4 ,typewriting has been one of the most useful subjects which ,i took in college4 ,in the last half of my freshman year my sister and ,i economized by keeping house in two rooms rented in a private home4 ,the next three years we were able to live at the girls' dormitory4 ,my sister1 too1 is earning her way through college1 and we will never regret doing so4 ,in my sophomore year ,i decided to take up drafting1 and was allowed to elect sixteen hours in the ,college of ,engineering4 ,in the spring of both my junior and senior years ,i was offered the position as temporary draftsman at #ajj a month by the ,united ,states ,surveyor ,general in ,cheyenne1 but ,i refused1 as ,i wished to graduate4 ,this merely illustrates how college people may receive good positions4 ,in my junior year ,i was elected editor-in-chief of the college paper1 for which ,i received #aj a month and credits in ,english4 ,during my senior year ,i was also editor and received #ae a month1 the paper having been changed to a weekly4 ,one might think that1 with being editor of the paper and assistant librarian1 the remainder of my time would have to be devoted entirely to my studies2 but far from it4 ,the fact that ,i was devoting a portion of my time to earning my way gave me the best of training4 ,i had my work down to a system1 and when ,i studied1 knowing just how much time ,i had1 ,i learned to concentrate to such an extent that it was no trouble to study in a room when four or five people were carrying on a conversation4 ,i did not take the minimum amount of work either1 for at the beginning of my senior year ,i had just twenty-two credits to make and upon graduation had eleven credits too many4 ,i engaged in athletics heartily4 ,i played on the basketball team1 being captain one year and manager the next4 ,for four years ,i was a member of the ,young ,women's ,christian ,association ,cabinet1 the ,mandolin and ,glee ,clubs1 and took part in dramatics and other social activities4 ,besides1 ,i devoted some of my time to ,pi ,beta ,phi1 of which ,i am a member4 ,i did not take library work with the intention of making it my vocation1 but merely as a means of going through college1 but there was an opening in the ,state ,library and on ,july #a1 #aiac1 ,i accepted the position of ,assistant ,state ,librarian in the ,state ,law ,library at ,cheyenne1 ,wyoming4 ,on ,june #ab1 #aiac1 ,i received the degree of ,b4,a4 ,i was nineteen years old1 but ,i came out of college with developed ideas of how to go about making my own living in a manner which ,i could have gained in no other way4 ,to work my way had not injured my health1 as ,i always took plenty of outdoor exercise1 walking1 skating1 etc41 and each summer was spent at home on the ranch1 fishing1 riding and camping in the mountains1 besides working at home4 ,with parents and relatives making sacrifices and determined to give my sister and me the opportunity to gain a higher education1 and with the encouragement of friends1 ,i have attained1 and my sister will attain next ,june1 a college education4 ,it is worth the effort a thousand times4 ,the spirit of the ,university of ,wyoming is greatly in favor of students helping themselves4 ,the leaders in social life1 athletics1 and in every phase of the life of the ,university are wide-awake young men and women who are willing to help themselves4 ,the men or women with a good education are being sought after in the business world to-day4 ,to know that you have gained this education by yourself1 makes you independent and places you on the road to success4 7,since writing the above ,miss ,wright stood a civil service examination for clerk-draftsman and passed fourth highest in the ,united ,states4--,,compiler47 ,cheyenne1 ,wyo4 ,,work ,a ,,stimulus ,,to ,,ambition ,i entered the engineering department of the ,university of ,texas as a freshman in the fall of #ahib at the age of seventeen4 ,i graduated with the degree of ,c4,e4 in the summer of #aijj1 eight years later1 having spent four years of that interval as a student at the ,university4 ,with the exception of about #acj1 ,i bore all the expenses of my university education4 ,during my first year ,i lived with a relative and did chores about the house in return for my board and lodging4 ,my total expenditure in money during this year1 including two months' preparation for entrance examinations1 was about #acj4 ,the most rigid economy was necessary1 of course1 to keep expenses down to this amount4 ,after the first year ,i was out of school four years1 the chief reason therefore being lack of funds4 ,these years 7#ahic-ahig71 as will be recalled1 covered a period of financial depression1 especially #ahic and #ahid4 ,being untrained in any trade or profession1 ,i was obliged to be satisfied with whatever wages ,i could earn1 and at times ,i was glad enough to make a living4 ,a long spell of typhoid fever kept me from work for six months1 and my finances suffered a corresponding setback4 ,i matriculated at the ,university again in the fall of #ahig4 ,during the session of '#ig-#8ih ,i earned both my board and lodging by doing light chores and tending rooms occupied by boarders4 ,my four years' savings1 aggregating #bjj1 were sufficient to cover other expenses1 close economy being practiced4 ,the first part of this year was the most discouraging period of my university life4 ,my outside duties were distasteful1 not through discouragement1 but by reason of continued contact with people who greatly underestimated their value4 ,i had become unaccustomed to study1 and ,i had reached the years when ,i felt that ,i should be earning an income somewhat different from higher education4 ,but a tenacious nature prevailed1 and after a few months it became clearer that ,i was on the right track4 ,during the vacation following my sophomore year ,i tried very hard to earn something toward the expenses of another year1 but it was a dull season and work of any kind was difficult to find4 ,late in the summer ,i got a job1 and in the three remaining weeks of vacation ,i earned a little more than enough to pay my fare to ,austin4 ,i landed in ,austin with #c4bj1 and without any plan whatever for meeting the expenses of further work in the ,university4 ,but with confidence resulting from the optimism of youth1 combined with the experience of previous years1 ,i fully intended to continue my university studies1 and this ,i did4 ,i visited the home where ,i had lived the year before1 and the lady of the house kindly offered to let me work out my board until ,i could make permanent arrangements4 ,i immediately wrote to a relative asking the loan of #ej with interest4 ,although ,i was unable to offer security for the loan1 a check came promptly1 and ,i was in a position to matriculate and purchase the necessary books4 ,i then joined a student club and remained a member during the year1 the cost of living in a club being less than in a regular boarding house4 ,during the year a small business in handling student supplies netted a profit of perhaps fifty dollars4 ,the club paid me a small price for chopping the stove wood1 and this brought in a few dollars1 although the work was done principally for exercise4 ,early in ,april of that year ,i left the ,university to accept a position on a survey party at #ce a month and expenses4 ,i owed at that time bills aggregating about #dj1 but these were paid by savings from my wages before the end of the session4 ,at the beginning of the succeeding fall term ,i gave up my work with the survey party and returned to the ,university to complete my course of civil engineering4 ,permission was granted by the heads of the various schools to take up senior with the understanding that junior work omitted in the spring be made up during the year4 ,the savings remaining from my summer's wages amounted to a little more than #ajj4 ,i lived at low rate boarding houses this year1 except two months when ,i worked for my board4 ,my business in student supplies1 this year on a larger scale1 netted about #ajj4 ,i also earned a small sum during the year by working a few hours each week in the office of an engineer in the city1 the hours of work being arranged so as not to conflict with my lecture hours at the ,university4 ,at the close of the session ,i had a few dollars left over4 ,i graduated with the degree of ,civil ,engineer4 ,being fortunate enough to obtain at once a paying position1 ,i was able within two months to pay back with interest the fifty dollars borrowed two years before4 ,i could then follow my chosen line of work free of debt4 ,in regard to the benefit derived from my connection with the ,university1 it is always difficult to picture 8what might have been02 and also one is apt not to realize all the advantages that have come to him as the result of higher education4 ,in my own case ,i know that my university training was well worth the time1 labor1 and sacrifice that it cost2 for it equipped me for entrance into a remunerative vocation1 and through the knowledge and training acquired in the four years' course ,i was able successfully to complete a civil service examination for an appointment in the technical branch of the ,federal service immediately upon graduation4 ,advancement and corresponding growth of income have followed1 accompanied by the advantages of extensive travel4 ,furthermore1 in my own case1 which doubtless is typical1 the years devoted to higher studies stimulated ambition and developed a self-confidence2 otherwise1 these qualities probably would have been wanting to prompt and sustain an effort to make the best use of my natural powers4 ,not the least benefit derived from a few years spent as a student at the ,university is the social pleasure and practical assistance afforded by the mutual interest of ex-students1 many of whom are now filling prominent and responsible positions4 ,during the last two years of my university work when tempted to quit1 or when 8practical0 persons suggested that ,i was prolonging my school days late into life1 or that ,i 8knew enough already10 ,i strengthened my purpose and met those arguments by the answer that while out of the ,university ,i made little more than a poor living1 whereas in it ,i not only made a better living1 but was acquiring valuable education as well4 ,during my struggles with financial problems when at the ,university1 ,i always received from my officers and faculty of the ,university practical assistance1 and this without doubt will be the experience of any other student similarly situated4 ,that no young man or young woman of receptive mind1 who possesses the requisite physical and mental strength and has the necessary ambition and determination1 need be deprived of the advantages of a university education by reason of financial limitations1 has been repeatedly demonstrated in the past4 ,i fully believe that the result in every case is worth the effort2 but the unavoidable outside duties and the cramped finances narrow the horizon of self-supporting students4 ,i would1 therefore1 offer to students the suggestion that they guard as much as possible against narrowness in the acquisition of their education and in their university life1 and that they endeavor to correct in their subsequent life after graduation any such resulting defect4--,the ,university of ,texas ,bulletin4 ,,the ,,university ,,as ,a ,,goal 8,,by ,a ,,country ,,girl0 ,i am writing this piece of personal history1 not because it contains any great amount of interest for people in general1 but because it may be an inspiration for some young woman who may chance to read it--and she may be induced to step out and try a similar plan for herself4 ,therefore1 prosaic though it be1 it will be1 nevertheless1 a true story from first to last4 ,i was born and grew up like many another healthy youngster1 with no marked precocity4 ,because there were no good schools near by1 the children of the family were taken to a village in the county1 and placed in what was then the best private school in that part of the ,state4 ,i was then eight years of age1 and this trip of sixteen miles in wagons across the snow one ,january day was my first glimpse of the outside world4 ,i recall vividly now the impressions that came to me that first night and during the first days4 ,there were in the family two older sisters and a brother1 and four or five cousins and half-uncles4 ,i had heard them discuss the wonders of this new world before we made the move4 ,we had a play-house in the barn4 ,it was in this barn that the marvelous stories were told1 and plans were made for what we meant to do and to be when once we were there4 ,i remember that ,i would dig my toes in the ground1 standing ready to swing1 but listening open-eyed1 and then let myself go high in the air1 dreaming of the great future4 ,so1 the village1 quaint and quiet1 except for the school1 was to my youthful imagination a part of ,paradise4 ,we lived in this village and attended this school for three years4 ,my mother died the first year1 and a married sister came to take charge of the household1 which was coperative in its nature1 every member of the family having his share of the daily tasks4 ,the school was a good one1 not only for its time1 but judged even now by modern standards4 ,it knew little of the principles of pedagogy1 and had meager equipment in library and laboratory1 but for a period of a quarter of a century1 under the influence of its one principal1 it had the power to transform the lives of hundreds of crude country boys and girls4 ,what was taught was well taught1 and the men and women who went from the school are known to-day in places of great responsibility4 ,but the facts learned were a small part of that school's work4 ,somehow1 under the inspiration of that principal and the assistants whom he had the wisdom to employ1 the school had a spirit akin to that of ,rugby4 ,and so my story is more than half told4 ,when once the mind is awake and the soul is stirred1 there is something within that bids us neither stand nor sit1 but go6 ,after this ,i had two years in school nearer my home4 ,when ,i was fifteen ,i was offered a position as assistant in a school and in my ignorance as to its responsibilities ,i accepted4 ,i liked the experience1 and decided that ,i had found my calling4 ,the way opened for me to attend a normal1 and in one year ,i was graduated--full fledged1 with a permanent certificate4 7,i count this year as one of the best of my life1 because of the influence of one teacher there1 and for this ,i can pardon the absurdity of permanent certificate47 ,the five years following this graduation ,i taught in the public schools--five busy and happy1 but hungry and unsatisfied years4 ,during these years ,i had the joy of waking up other boys and girls1 and during these years at night ,i had my first opportunity to read good books4 ,and then the way opened for me to go to the ,university4 ,i had saved what ,i thought was enough money to put me through1 and though some people thought ,i 8knew enough10 ,i dared to lay down my work and go4 ,i have never regretted it for one day1 in spite of the sacrifice1 hardship and anxiety when funds began to fail1 ,i had the foolish idea that ,i must get my degree before ,i stopped4 ,and ,i did4 ,now1 ,i should say1 go as long as you can with health and comfort--physical and mental--and then1 if you can not make your way1 teach and go again4 ,you will be the better for the discipline1 perhaps1 and the university the richer for your maturity4 ,but1 a teacher may ask1 why set the university as my goal8 8,if ,i have a good position1 and have managed by great privation to go through a normal school1 am ,i not entitled to rest a while and let well enough alone80 ,let me answer that no university claims to be the final goal4 ,take your respite1 teach with all your might with the best light that you have4 ,but go up for some summer session4 ,you will catch the spirit2 you will soon see that you need the university1 and if you have in you the right fire1 your university needs you4 ,then if you are too timid to give up your position1 ask your board for a leave of absence and go back as you can and take your degree4 ,but my heart turns to the girl away back in the country1 to the girl who has felt her soul stir within her1 but has curbed every hope because she thinks herself shut within walls that cannot be broken down4 ,don't believe it4 ,keep the fire alive4 ,let the university know who you are and what you want1 and if you cry loud enough and long enough--and mean it1 some one will come to your rescue4 ,take my word for it4--,the ,university of ,texas ,bulletin4 ,,part ,,ii ,,working ,,to ,,make ,,himself ,a ,,more ,,useful ,,man ,f4 ,m4 ,,bassford ,i am making my own way through college because there was no one at home able to send me aid or to pay my expenses4 ,i am making my own way because ,i wanted to be a college man2 to graduate from college2 to become more intelligent educationally along general lines2 to be able to take my place in public1 whether on the platform1 before an audience1 or in polite society at social functions1 with ease and grace instead of embarrassment4 ,i was told a college man could succeed better than a man without a trained mind4 ,i found the educated men advancing beyond me in position and salary1 even though younger1 at the office where ,i worked4 ,i always looked up to college men and women1 as to my elders1 with a certain respect and admiration for their superiority--derived as ,i believed from their college course4 ,i had a desire every time a public speaker referred1 in my hearing1 to ancient history or to some event1 poem1 or historic personage1 to delve into those mysterious realms of learning so that ,i might appreciate more fully the point he was trying to make clear1 by an understanding of the circumstances connected with the reference which would enable me to make the application to the speaker's topic4 ,i am working my way through college because ,i had read before coming1 and ,i have discovered for myself since coming1 that many students succeed in securing a thorough college course by their own efforts and ,god's blessing4 ,i am working my way through college because ,i have nothing to lose and much to gain thereby4 ,i am devoting part of my time--usually half of each day--during the school days1 and all day ,saturdays1 of the two semesters comprising the school year1 to the clerical work and such other duties as ,i may be called upon to perform under the direction of the president and the registrar in the administration department of the ,college located at ,adrian4 ,during the summer vacations1 holidays1 and such other spare time as is at my disposal1 ,i canvass with such articles as hosiery1 underwear1 neckwear1 sweaters1 and books1 both among the members of the student body and the citizens of the municipality in which our school is located4 ,i get on by keeping everlastingly at it1 steadily1 day by day and year by year1 and by a careful expenditure of the money earned1 for necessities and such worthy causes as ,i choose to support1 avoiding most of the luxurious and expensive pastimes for the three-fold purpose of conserving time1 money and energy4 ,i am encouraged along the way by the assistance1 the kindness1 the moral and financial support of a host of much appreciated friends and customers1 and by the manifold blessings of ,god1 such as health1 strength1 a normally perfect body1 which in ,his mercy ,he has seen fit to bestow upon me1 a poor1 ignorant1 ambitious boy1 an humble and unworthy follower of the ,great ,teacher4 ,adrian ,college1 ,adrian1 ,mich4 ,,many ,,lanes ,,of ,,usefulness ,,bebe ,,boswell ,my early education consisted of the three ,r's learned at home with my father as teacher1 and a half-dozen two-month terms in the public school4 ,there being no high school nearer than twenty-five miles1 father kept me on the farm about three years after this and then sent me to a preparatory school for two years4 ,these two years fixed my moral and religious ideas and gave me a great faith in the possibilities and rewards of human effort4 ,after this he sent me to a private school in the ,west for one year1 and the following summer to the ,north ,texas ,state ,normal4 ,during this year1 especially1 my desire to be self-sustaining had grown to be very strong1 and it led me to obtain a six-year first grade certificate to teach in that ,state4 ,scarcely had my certificate been issued when a call came to return and take charge of a private rural school4 ,the call was accepted1 and school opened immediately upon my return4 ,during this year ,i made up my mind to attend ,peabody ,college and secure a life certificate good in a number of ,southern ,states instead of returning to ,texas for a permanent certificate4 ,all ,i needed to carry out this plan was the money4 ,father had helped me until ,i was able to help myself4 ,i was not willing longer to spend his money4 ,there was only one thing left me to do1 and that was to enter the world's workshop4 ,the next two years found me very busy1 on the farm1 in the log woods1 and teaching rural schools4 ,these two years rewarded me with enough money to pay my expenses during the two-year normal course ,i had planned4 ,my application for entrance showed ,i had almost enough credit for college1 and my plan was immediately changed from a two-year to a four-year course4 ,having only two years provided for1 ,i felt the need of doing outside work1 but with a little entrance requirement to make up ,i found only enough spare time to work in a grocery store on ,saturdays to pay my room rent4 ,when the next year came the duties of business manager of the student monthly magazine1 which left me no time to earn anything4 ,success in this enterprise1 however1 opened up greater opportunities the following year4 ,the faculty committee made me joint manager of the college book-store4 ,this work paid me enough for board and room4 ,to provide for my other expenses ,i joined a crew of college men who were going to ,virginia to sell books for a local publishing house4 ,besides furnishing the necessary means this work gave me a most valuable experience1 and an opportunity to travel about twenty-six hundred miles1 visit a large number of cities and see ten ,states4 ,every expense of my junior year was now provided for1 but this did not satisfy me4 ,my eyes had been opened to see another opportunity4 ,during this year in addition to my work in the classroom1 in the book-store1 and in the literary society1 ,i found time to edit both the student monthly magazine and the college annual4 ,besides this ,i would use spare moments in taking orders for class pins1 graduation invitations1 and in soliciting business for a clothing house and a local jewelry establishment4 ,i also joined my room-mate in organizing and conducting the annual ,thanksgiving party to ,mammoth ,cave4 ,these various sources yielded me half enough for my expenses the next year1 my senior year4 ,but before my junior year had closed came the radical announcement that ,peabody ,college would be discontinued for reorganization and rebuilding4 ,this left me at sea1 with insufficient means for a whole year and the disadvantage of selecting a new college4 ,i decided to finish in one of the larger universities at a greater expense4 ,this was met by another contract with the same publishing house4 ,this contract was for six months and netted me above all expenses over one thousand dollars4 ,then ,i entered the ,university of ,chicago1 where ,i could pursue my work during the winter and continue with the publishing company during the vacation1 helping not only myself1 but many other ambitious young men secure the means for an education1 and a practical experience that will serve them to advantage all their lives4 ,wildersville1 ,tenn4 ,,another ,,example ,,of ,,the ,,willing ,,heart ,,glenn ,,daft ,why am ,i making my way through college8 ,like all normal young men ,i am possessed with an ambitious1 enterprising spirit1 which continually urges me to do things and be somebody4 ,i am led by a natural inherent desire to press forward4 ,i feel that1 sometime in the future1 when the greater part of my life is behind me1 ,i shall look back over the years that are gone1 and shall measure what ,i am with what ,i might have been4 ,at that time1 whenever it may be1 ,i feel that1 if ,i am not able to say that ,i have not lived in vain1 life will seem empty and meaningless to me4 ,i want to be1 in every respect1 a success in life4 ,in short1 ,i am ambitious4 ,ambition may manifest itself in one or many of several ways4 ,in days of yore1 it rushed the impetuous youth into battle field4 ,to-day it is very apt to express itself in a desire for a higher education4 ,everything depends on the attitude one takes toward higher education4 ,i feel that the great problems of the day demand the attention of the best and broadest men that the age affords1 and that no uneducated man can ever hope to realize his best4 ,i think that any man1 in order to do the most good for himself and for his fellow beings1 must be able to plunge into the battle of life unhampered by lack of preparation4 ,i realize that many walks of life are open only to those who have a college or university education4 ,here1 then1 is why ,i am working my way through college3 because ,i feel that by so doing ,i can broaden myself physically1 mentally1 and morally2 that ,i can fit myself to cope with the questions of the day1 and conquer2 that it will enlarge my possibilities in life almost beyond comparison2 that it will not only enable me to become a success1 but1 if ,i apply myself rightly1 that it will leave me in a position to do something of value for coming generations2 and that1 for my having lived and done1 the world may1 in some way1 be bettered4 ,many are the means which ,i employ to accomplish this end4 ,it requires not only the making of money1 but the saving of money as well4 ,it requires a systematic arrangement of time1 and a constant concentration of energy to the task at hand4 ,during the school year ,i have done almost all degrees of physical labor1 ranging from folding papers to shoveling coal and digging tile ditches4 ,my motto is1 8anything that is honest40 ,a college town always affords plenty of employment4 ,i find that steady work of some kind is much more satisfactory than depending upon odd jobs4 ,i wait on tables in a hotel for my board and like the plan very much4 ,i spend the summer months in the country1 generally at farm work4 ,i sold books one summer4 ,last summer ,i spent a month and a half at tiling1 and find that it pays very well1 but the work is rather severe for a student4 ,i am able to save from #ij to #abe during the three summer months4 ,with this much in hand ,i am able to meet expenses very well4 ,working one's way through college demands economy1 hard work1 and determination2 but the end in view justifies the means4 ,it is a real pleasure for one to feel that he is doing things himself4 ,with the possibilities that are open to the young man to-day it seems that everyone ought to be willing to devote a few years to preparing himself to better understand and deal with the conditions under which we live4 ,simpson ,college1 ,indianola1 ,iowa4 ,,difficulties ,,prepare ,,for ,,real ,,work ,,ermil ,b4 ,,frye ,in every college town there are many openings for the young man and woman who wish to earn their way through college4 ,there are always men who will make room in their homes or in their place of business1 for that young man who is anxious enough about acquiring an education to work for it with his hands4 ,seldom do we find such a person making his way through school by working at the same thing each year4 ,more frequently we find them working at the best thing that offers4 ,it is in this way that ,i have made and am making my way4 ,usually young ambitious persons work their way through school because it is their only means of acquiring an education4 ,in other words1 they are self-supporting4 ,others1 however1 who are not forced to do outside work in order to go to school1 find it very advisable to take upon themselves a certain amount in addition to their studies4 ,the first thing ,i asked myself was3 ,am ,i able1 physically and mentally1 to work my way through school8 ,some are not physically able to do outside work and to carry their school work at the same time4 ,others are not mentally qualified to pursue their studies in an official manner while making their expenses1 in whole or in part4 ,i have found1 however1 that by making a definite schedule for each day1 ,i can give a certain amount of time to outside work1 though the time allotted to each of my school subjects may possibly be more or less than the time required by others for those same studies4 ,it may be seen that it is not for everyone to carry regular work in school and while doing so to earn his expenses4 ,yet if a man can he is better off to busy himself with work that is bringing him an income4 ,in taking outside work1 ,i feel that ,i can do it without detracting from the time required for the preparation of my studies4 ,again1 ,i have always been taught that for a man who has never been placed under obligations to himself in any way1 it is better that he bear a little responsibility4 ,the young men who jump out into the whirl of life's battles are at a great disadvantage1 but the young men who1 while in school1 have learned how to contend with impending circumstances1 will be enabled to cope more successfully with the circumstances which will surely confront them after their school days have ended4 ,i believe that every thinking person will bear me out when ,i say that the strongest college graduates are those who have known what it was to roll up their sleeves and to help do the ordinary commonplace things4 ,if1 by being responsible1 one acquires a new experience and added strength1 it is essential that we assume some responsibility4 ,therefore1 ,i feel that ,i am making my education twofold in value by working my way through school4 ,to many there comes the opportunity of doing some work along the line of their intended profession and in such cases outside work is to be encouraged4 ,such is my privilege4 ,i am studying for the ministry and have been preaching for four years in connection with my school work1 earning in this way the greater part of my expenses4 ,in that four years1 ,i have written1 in outline form1 three hundred and ninety-two sermons4 ,to some this may not represent much1 but to me it represents a great deal1 including extensive research along different lines and the task of putting together my thoughts in a logical form4 ,i feel that ,i will be more capable of preaching my first sermon after leaving school1 having had all these experiences in the pulpit and in the study4 ,furthermore1 practical experience brings us into close touch with people4 ,in this manner1 have ,i learned the different ways of the church and ,i have become acquainted with the various classes of people which are represented in the church4 ,this means a great deal to any man1 for there are many complex situations in connection with the church1 and there are also many matters associated indirectly with the church1 which demand solution4 ,the first means by which ,i made a part of my expenses was by scrubbing halls and washing windows4 ,this ,i did in compensation for my board and a part of my room rent4 ,it was new work to me2 for ,i had never scrubbed a floor in my life4 ,yet it enabled me to see the world from the standpoint of the porter and ,i frankly confess that1 after ,i had once gone through this experience1 ,i had a different regard for the men and women of this occupation4 ,later by selling and delivering papers1 ,i got to see the world from the standpoint of the newsboy4 ,this proved to be a valuable experience to me4 ,for the first time in my life ,i faced the mobs of the street and transacted business with them4 ,the many faces into which ,i looked made impressions upon my life1 some of which have been lasting4 ,the care free and the burdened2 the hilarious and the melancholy2 the custom-bound and the independent2 the victims of disease and those to whom disease was unknown2 in fact1 people representing every condition and every class of life were among those with whom ,i came in contact4 ,the good which ,i received from dealing with these widely different and distinct types of humanity is measured only by the resolutions that a man makes when he sees the beautiful and the unattractive1 the uplifting and the debasing1 the efficient and the inefficient1 all within the experience of a day4 ,after my experience as a newsboy1 ,i secured a place in the college dining hall to carry off and to scrape the dishes4 ,this ,i did for a school year4 ,though ,i had little liking for this work1 ,i am better off because ,i did it and ,i have more sympathy for the housewife1 the daily routine of whose duties every true mother must endure4 ,from this place ,i was transferred a step higher4 ,i began to wait on tables--a good place in which to cultivate one's temper and to learn the art of being patient4 ,here one deals with all kinds of temperaments4 ,the waiter must listen to the reasons 7given by the girl who came in late7 why toast is better buttered before it is served1 and why coffee ought to be eliminated from the menu4 ,of course1 he comes in contact with others who do not care what they have to eat1 just so they have enough of it1 and so it is hot4 ,hence1 such work is valuable experience1 and the waiter who for two or three years finds these faults repulsive to him and then allows himself to drift into the same sort of thing1 deserves little pity4 ,at the present ,i am holding a student pastorate in the ,methodist ,episcopal ,church4 ,i can reach my appointment by leaving ,saturday night1 being able also to get back in time for my first class ,monday4 ,a great deal of fault is found with the student preacher1 and usually this criticism originates within the college halls4 ,in some schools he is regarded as one who cannot do anything else but preach--a sort of abnormal being2 in others1 however1 he gets the respect which is justly due him4 ,we do not need to investigate very far to find that most denominational schools owe their very existence to the never-tiring work of the clergy4 ,by making my school life twofold1 ,i am enabled to state my theories and conclusions from actual experience2 for each day ,i receive incentives which serve to promote the line of work which ,i am pursuing and if ,i should once more go through the process of finding my place in the world1 ,i am of the opinion that ,i would be drawn into the work of a student preacher4 ,we often hear that the college is a place where preparation for the work of life is made4 ,our elders tell us that the work of the college serves to broaden our horizon by changing our perspective2 but the college1 to the man who has never supported himself1 will not mean a revelation to the world's activities in their most true and real form4 ,after graduating from college a man will find that he has awakened in a real world in which men are bearing responsibilities1 and will realize that in every phase of life the world is calling for men who have had the most experience1 who have received the strength which comes only from carrying a load4 ,indianola1 ,iowa4 ,,pluck ,,rather ,,than ,,luck ,f4 ,d4 ,,henry ,the demand of to-day and to-morrow will be for men who have had a college training1 while the men who have little or no education will be compelled to fill the mediocre places in life4 ,this fact was profoundly impressed upon my mind while yet in the grades of our common school4 ,the per cent4 of the men who have made good under adverse circumstances awoke in me dissatisfaction with my surroundings and circumstances4 ,i resolved to attain some better station in life4 ,the fact that ,abraham ,lincoln1 in spite of his physical appearance1 financial condition1 and many obstacles1 any one of which would discourage the ordinary boy1 attained the highest honors in the gift of our nation1 was an inspiration to me4 ,marshall ,field at one time was a poor boy1 a clerk1 in a country store1 who1 upon visiting ,chicago1 resolved to become a great merchant4 ,i perceived that the keynote of the greatness of such men as ,lincoln and ,field was not only in having an ideal1 but that1 never ceasing1 never flinching1 never faltering1 they kept their ideal before them4 ,these men realized there was no victory in retreat4 ,they were men with a mission and an aim4 ,they had faith in the standard they were striving to attain1 and consequently they were truly successful4 ,because of the fact that the world has an unlimited field for the man with a college education1 while the uneducated man is forced to mingle with the mass in the lower walks of life1 a college education became my ideal4 ,circumstances were such that ,i had to work my way through college1 if ,i ever attained my ideal4 ,at first the barrier seemed insurmountable1 and ,i allowed myself to think of a college education more as a dream than something which ,i might actually obtain4 ,after coming in contact with some college men1 however1 ,i found that my dream of an ideal might become a reality4 ,through many discouraging difficulties somehow ,i clung tenaciously to my ideal1 broke down every barrier that arose1 and came to ,simpson ,college4 ,everything was entirely different from what ,i had pictured4 ,however1 my ideas are not changed so much as they are strengthened and broadened4 ,the vital question of work while in school1 which at first seemed dark and gloomy1 has changed its aspect entirely4 ,in the first place the thing that impressed me most forcibly was that the boys and girls who take class honors are students who are compelled to work their way through college4 ,it is not that any of us lack talent4 ,we all have sufficient talent1 but where we are deficient is in will-power to persistently keep our ideals before us and attain that ideal with the vigor of a ,field or a ,lincoln4 ,the next thing that ,i readily perceive is that the student who earns his way through appreciates his opportunity4 ,he realizes that fortune smiles upon those who roll up their sleeves1 put their shoulder to the wheel1 and have backbone and stamina to fight the battle1 and not turn aside for a little dirt or hard physical labor4 ,the student who strikes the word 8luck0 from his vocabulary waits for no psychological moment1 loiters not for a miracle to occur1 but rather creates the miracle1 makes his own opportunities4 ,in our college1 here in the ,middle ,west1 the manner of earning one's way varies a great deal4 ,we are blessed with a rich country and the greater per cent4 of the people are prosperous4 ,the majority of students canvass during the summer vacation4 ,i was formerly employed as a clerk in a hardware store before coming to college4 ,next summer1 however1 ,i will take up some form of canvassing4 ,canvassing has two distinct features that should appeal to the student2 first1 the opportunity to study human nature1 and secondly1 the fact that the harder you work the more you earn4 ,next school year ,i will have a position whereby ,i can earn my board and room1 and with my summer earnings ,i shall be able to return for another year's work4 ,my first reason for working my way through college was because of financial necessity4 ,now if ,i were to choose between the two avenues of securing a college education ,i would cast my lot with the boy who works his way4 ,his conceptions of life are broader1 and he is better fitted for the battles of life he will meet when he leaves college4 ,thus1 in many ways ,i consider the necessity of working one's way through college not a detriment1 but a blessing in disguise1 which gives one a greater knowledge and a broader conception of what a life worth while really means4 ,simpson ,college1 ,indianola1 ,iowa4 ,,poverty ,,is ,,not ,,his ,,master ,,byron ,e4 ,,johnson ,it has been my misfortune1 or fortune1 to be reared practically in the arms of poverty4 ,i have spent the most of my days on a little farm in southwest ,arkansas1 the family consisting of six children and father and mother1 living in an old log house on the farm4 ,just at the time when we were getting to where we could make a crop without buying everything on time1 we lost about all we had on account of the ill health of my mother4 ,i was eighteen years of age when ,i finished the seventh grade4 ,i thought then that ,i had enough education for any ordinary man4 ,i had finished geography in the high school1 ,i knew ,united ,states history fairly well1 and had been through fractions in arithmetic2 so ,i thought ,i was prepared for life4 ,besides having enough education1 as ,i supposed1 mother's health was very bad2 so ,i decided that it was time for me to stop fooling with school and go to work4 ,the next school term came around and mother's health was no better2 so as ,i had to stay at home1 ,i decided to attend school4 ,three days after school was out1 mother died4 8,now as mother is gone and ,i have finished one grade more than is necessary1 ,i must get out and make something to replace our loss10 was about as high a thought as ever entered my mind4 ,along in the summer ,i went to ,new ,mexico4 ,there were several children where ,i stayed1 and when they started to school1 the thoughts of the dear old school days came to me1 and ,i wished that ,i were in school4 ,as soon as ,i could get money enough1 ,i returned home and entered school4 ,although ,i had learned enough to begin to realize my ignorance1 ,i was still determined to make something to replace our loss4 ,with this in view1 ,i went to ,texas1 before school was out1 to take a position at #cj4jj per month and board4 ,this was more than the average man received2 yet it did not take me long to realize the fact that competition is too hard for any ordinary man to earn enough by honest labor to place himself in good circumstances in twelve or fifteen years4 ,i had come to desire a nice home surrounded by the comforts of life1 and when this desire dawned upon me1 ,i decided to finish the high school4 ,i returned home and entered school at the beginning of the term4 ,after some insisting on the part of my professor1 ,i decided to go through college4 ,i had practically two years of high school work before me1 and ,i had no money at all2 still1 the more ,i thought about it1 the more determined ,i was to take a college education4 ,by working hard and doing without many necessities1 ,i managed to graduate from the high school at the end of two years1 with first honors4 ,as the time of my departure for college drew near1 ,i found that my determination increased4 ,i borrowed a little money with which to make the start4 ,i arrived at ,fayetteville1 ,arkansas1 ,september #ah1 #aiab4 ,as the old boys have nearly all of the work about the ,university1 it is hard for a freshman to get work4 ,but after school had been going on a week1 ,i secured a position which paid me #e4jj per month4 ,i soon made a good many friends1 including the commandant4 ,with their help ,i have been able to get enough work to carry me through my first year4 ,i wish to say to those who read this1 that ,i never could have made my way this far without these friends1 and a determination4 ,i try to make all the friends ,i can1 but ,i never let a friend come between me and duty4 ,university of ,arkansas1 ,fayetteville1 ,arkansas4 ,,defeat ,,does ,,not ,,mean ,,failure ,,robert ,,johnson1 ,,jr4 ,have you succeeded as yet on the way to success ,or has your life been one of despair8 ,have you taken life in its daily process1 ,or chosen your path with a care8 ,a defeat so long as it is not on the roll of the ,grim ,reaper is not a defeat but a victory4 ,you cannot win without experience1 and defeat is only a blazer to the goal of success4 ,you can afford to take the harsh treatment from the hands of the world1 because it means that later on in life you will be able to undergo the same without flinching4 ,set your mark and keep your eye on it4 ,when every chance seems gone and all the world fighting1 you look towards your goal--stop and think--do not rush off into the old road of 8,i give up40 ,life is worth more to you than a complete failure--you can succeed half way and be a howling success4 ,keep your eye on your mark4 ,failures are recorded from the mere fact that a man quits at the first mile in the race of life4 ,from the time you start in until the end has arrived1 form a determination to succeed in some way or another4 ,make it a persistent effort even though failures pile high on your list4 ,you cannot gain the determination in a day nor a year4 ,every day of your life beats the time as a pendulum of a clock1 and every day you must try to get that determination4 ,in the end even though you haven't shone as a brilliant star1 you have formed an idea of what it means to be determined4 ,a man who has not suffered defeat is the man who will utterly fail when defeat does come4 ,experience is teacher of belief1 and in the defeats you receive you learn to love the battle of life4 ,the realization comes that life is a little of your own making and not at all a matter of course4 ,work is an excellent developer of the mind4 ,it winds you in and out through the different roads of humanity and you come to a point of seeing the realness of life4 ,the unreal is left standing as a skeleton1 weak and frail4 ,from your position in which you are toiling for an education you cannot fail to choose the reality4 ,it has a determination and all views are in accordance with yours--a persistent effort to succeed4 ,shurtleff ,college1 ,alton1 ,ill4 8,,start ,,right0 ,,walter ,a4 ,,johnson ,i am glad to be numbered in that group of students who are working their way through college4 ,it has fallen to my lot for many years to make my own way in the world4 ,early in life ,i decided that the best thing ,i could do was to obtain a good practical education as soon as ,i could1 and then ,i would be better able to make a living4 ,i had no means with which to go to school1 as my parents died when ,i was quite small1 leaving me none of this world's goods2 but1 through a friend ,i heard of a school near my home in ,georgia1 where one could go without much money4 ,so ,i applied for admission1 and entered ,the ,berry ,school of ,rome1 ,ga41 in #aijh4 ,it is a ,christian industrial school for country boys whose means are limited4 ,i remained there four years1 working at the school during the summer to pay all expenses for the following year4 ,i finished there in #aiab4 ,it was while ,i was at ,the ,berry ,school that my vision of life was broadened1 and ,i was determined that my main object would not be simply to make a living1 but to be of some service in the world1 especially to those who were less fortunate than ,i4 ,i decided1 therefore1 to go through college1 if possible4 ,it was the influence of the noble founder and teachers of ,berry ,school which gave me a desire to go to college1 and it was they who helped me financially through my first year at college4 ,this is my second year at ,davidson ,college1 ,north ,carolina1 and ,i believe ,i can finish the four-year course without very much more outside help4 ,the first part of last year1 ,i put in a good deal of my spare time in working for some of the professors1 but in the spring term ,i spent the time in collecting ,kodak films to be sent off for developing1 for which ,i received a liberal commission4 ,i found this work to be much more profitable than the other odd jobs ,i had been doing4 ,i still have this agency1 and besides1 my room-mate and ,i represent a laundry and a shoe repairing establishment of ,charlotte1 ,n4 ,c4 ,the three agencies take up very little more time than one1 yet1 our profits are more than trebled4 ,for the spring term ,i will wait on tables at one of the boarding houses1 and this will pay my board for the term4 ,i also have the monitorship of our class1 and this pays well for the time it requires4 ,i don't say that with all this work my studies are not somewhat neglected1 but with systematic work ,i do not believe it will interfere very seriously with my classroom work4 ,last spring when ,i was looking out for work for the summer1 my attention was called to that of canvassing4 ,i never thought ,i would like this work1 but knew that there was good pay in it1 so ,i decided to try it4 ,i liked the work much better than ,i expected1 and it is very profitable business4 ,i believe that the average student who works hard could make at least #ajj4jj per month canvassing1 and meeting with different people throughout the country and studying human nature is certainly profitable educationally4 ,i know the experience has helped me a great deal1 and ,i would not take a considerable sum of money for the training ,i received while canvassing4 ,i am going into the same work next summer4 ,i don't believe that any young man should deprive himself of a college education1 simply because he thinks he cannot afford it4 ,my advice is to start right in1 and some kind of work will present itself1 enabling you to work your way to graduation4 ,davidson ,college1 ,davidson1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,the ,,real ,,question ,h4 ,e4 ,,jorgenson ,to-day if a young man or woman lacking financial means wishes to get an education1 the question is not3 ,am ,i able to get it8 ,it is3 ,am ,i willing to work for it8 ,i have not completed my education1 but ,i am working for it4 ,with the hope that it may encourage someone who thinks working for an education is a colossal task1 or that it may suggest a way1 ,i shall tell how ,i have been working my way through college4 ,at fourteen ,i debated whether ,i should complete my high school course or not and ended with the belief that a commercial school would give me a more practical education than the high school and would put me on a salary basis when ,i was through4 ,there were six of us children at home2 as they would grow up the expense of keeping our family decently would soon exceed father's income1 for he was a wage earner4 ,it would cost about #ae4jj per month to go to the commercial school4 ,this father could spare out of our month's savings1 but it would be a sacrifice2 yet he was willing to do it4 ,i decided to get a business education1 but determined to pay the expenses myself4 ,at ,laurium1 ,mich41 two miles from my home1 was the ,laurium ,commercial ,school4 ,the day after my father and ,i had agreed upon the course ,i should follow1 ,i went to ,laurium and had a talk with the principal of the school4 ,he needed a janitor and ,i offered to do the sweeping1 dusting1 window-washing1 firing and all duties incident to a janitorship in return for all expenses4 ,he hesitated1 for ,i was young1 and small for my age4 ,finally he agreed1 and one day after the opening of the regular fall session ,i was at work on my ,bookkeeping4 ,it was hard work1 especially when winter came1 when ,i had to trudge through the deep snow1 and sometimes it was dangerous1 when a northwestern blizzard would come sailing over us from ,lake ,superior4 ,the stoves of the school had to be fed during the months between ,october and ,april4 ,it was necessary to carry the fuel from the basement to the third floor at convenient times and to arrive early in the morning to enliven the fires4 ,it was hard work on the muscles1 but my heart was seldom heavy1 for the students were considerate and kind and they made me feel inspired rather than humiliated2 in fact1 ,i was one of them4 ,i succeeded in covering as much work as the average student and at an average standing1 and in a year and a half ,i had completed the combined commercial course4 ,just before leaving the commercial school1 ,i made application for a position with a commission house in our city4 ,they took me on trial and for awhile it seemed as if they would not keep me4 ,but ,i succeeded in sticking and by burning some midnight oil1 and a lot of digging managed to fall in line with the work1 and it was a task1 for the accounting system used was a cost-finding system and made the work of the bookkeeper difficult and a matter of great responsibility4 ,i remained in this position three years when ,i resigned to accept a position with a lumbering firm during one winter's operations4 ,i had long come to learn that my education was inadequate and many times regretted that ,i left the high school4 ,to make the best of it1 ,i spent most of my evenings in the public library and in my room covering lost ground4 ,as my ignorance made itself more and more manifest1 ,i began to think out some plan by which ,i could get to college4 ,the winter ,i worked with the lumbering firm1 ,i was employed three evenings a week tutoring a class of men in a large coperative department store1 who wanted to make ready for promotions4 ,this work brought me some money and experience4 ,the money ,i had saved would not keep me more than a year in college1 but ,i thought that with a little more preparation ,i could teach the commercial subjects in some college in return for my expenses4 ,so ,i resolved to take my earnings and attend the ,zanerian ,school of ,penmanship1 ,columbus1 ,ohio1 that ,i might be capable of teaching ,penmanship as well as ,stenography and ,bookkeeping2 but father was stricken with pneumonia and disabled for six months and ,i gave him the greater part of my savings to help him out1 and retained only #aej4jj1 which would pay all traveling expenses1 tuition and room rent1 but would leave nothing for board4 ,yet ,i went to ,columbus1 and a week had not passed before ,i had a place as waiter in one of the best restaurants in the city1 where ,i worked #b-a_/b hours a day and got my three meals1 and the work did not interfere with my classes4 ,numbers of students in the ,ohio ,state ,university and other colleges of ,columbus earned their board that way4 ,i made many acquaintances through my connection with the church1 ,sunday school and ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a41 but my being a waiter in a restaurant did not seem to hurt my standing with them4 ,before eight months had passed my money was spent and ,i began to seek a position4 ,it would not have been difficult to get employment as a bookkeeper or stenographer1 but ,i wanted to teach4 ,i was not seeking long4 ,mr4 ,zaner1 principal of the school1 called me to his desk one morning and asked me if ,i wanted to go to ,north ,carolina to teach4 ,i replied that ,i would4 ,after a short correspondence ,i had my contract with the ,bingham ,school1 ,mebane1 ,n4 ,c4 ,at this time it was necessary to borrow some money1 which ,i did1 and after making a little pleasure trip through the eastern states ,i arrived at ,bingham ,school and began to teach ,bookkeeping1 ,shorthand and ,typewriting4 ,that was last year4 ,during the day ,i taught and during the evenings ,i studied history1 literature1 mathematics and science4 ,the reading ,i had done came to good stead1 and ,i found that ,i was not so far behind in my education after all4 ,before the year was half gone ,i came in touch with ,elon ,college about fifteen miles away4 ,learning that the institution had a commercial department1 ,i wrote to the president1 offering my services as a commercial teacher for expenses in the college4 ,my offer was finally accepted4 ,when spring came ,i had paid all debts and saved some money4 ,with it ,i went to ,rochester1 ,n4 ,y41 and attended the ,rochester ,business ,institute1 securing a teacher's diploma4 ,last ,september ,i entered upon the work ,i am doing here4 ,as a student ,i have twenty hours of college work per week and ,i am teaching bookkeeping and stenography4 ,altogether it amounts to about thirty-two hours of work per week4 ,it gives me much to do1 yet ,i am not sorry1 for ,i have no chance to waste any time and there is not much tendency to fall into lazy habits4 ,besides my regular work ,i give one and one-half hours daily to gymnasium and spend every ,monday evening in literary society work2 in fact ,i enjoy as many privileges and opportunities as any other student has time to enjoy1 and ,i believe that ,i would not be doing any better if someone else was paying my expenses4 ,now the way is open before me to get my college education4 ,when the proper time comes it is my plan to enter the ,university of ,michigan to study for a profession4 ,at the present time my purse is empty1 yet ,i am sure there will be a way2 there always was a way when ,i was willing to pay the price1 namely1 a little hard work and a careful management of my time and means4 ,of course1 there have been times of doubt and disappointment1 when ,i have been among strangers1 or when temporary pressure of work has made me feel that ,i could not hold out another minute2 but those incidents have been eclipsed in the regular progress of better experiences and now ,i feel that ,i would not have the past to be other than it has been1 and ,i face the future with a hopeful heart4 ,elon ,college1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,willingness ,,to ,,work ,a ,,great ,,asset ,,allen ,l4 ,,moore ,after graduating from a high school in #aijg1 ,i was thrown upon my own resources4 ,the possibility of entering college and paying my own way seemed only a faint hope4 ,i had read of such things but1 at the time1 it seemed too great a handicap with which to burden myself4 ,for three years ,i worked at the collection window of the ,first ,national ,bank in my home town1 and in ,september1 #aiaj1 quit my position and left for ,minneapolis1 determined to take at least a year or two at the ,university of ,minnesota4 ,i had four hundred dollars in my pocket1 the result of three years' savings4 ,my first work was given to me by the secretary of the ,university ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a41 and for two years ,i took care of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 building and the university observatory on the campus4 ,for this1 ,i received twenty dollars a month1 which helped considerably1--especially in view of the fact that ,i had joined a fraternity and my expenses were somewhat higher than the average4 ,my first summer vacation was spent in a machine shop and ,i saved #aej4jj from my summer's wages4 ,this and what ,i had earned while the ,university was in session paid my expenses the first two years4 ,by this time ,i had decided to finish my course at any cost4 ,the second and third summer vacations were spent at outdoor carpenter work which proved both remunerative and healthful4 ,in my junior year ,i was given the care of the furnace at the fraternity house1 in which ,i lived1 in return for my board4 ,i was also advertising manager of the ,gopher1 the junior annual1 and solicited advertising on a commission basis4 ,in the meantime1 ,i was active in college activities and had been elected to an associate editorship of the ,minnesota ,daily1 the student newspaper4 ,in the spring of last year the students elected me to fill the position of managing editor1 carrying with it a salary of twenty-five dollars a month4 ,the amount has since been raised to thirty dollars a month for the nine months of the college year4 ,at odd times ,i have done newspaper work for metropolitan newspapers4 ,at the present time ,i am receiving1 besides my regular salary1 from five to eight dollars a week from ,minneapolis newspapers for reporting university news4 ,the ,university is also paying me #e a month for drilling as captain in the cadet corps1 making my total earnings from #ej to #fj per month at the present time4 ,i am carrying full senior work in the ,university and1 although it keeps me busy handling it all1 ,i expect to graduate next ,june without any conditions or failures4 ,what has been accomplished is no more than any young man can do4 ,i have been especially favored at all times with the best of friends1 who have pushed me forward at every opportunity4 ,a willingness to work is1 ,i have found1 the best asset4 ,university of ,minnesota1 ,minneapolis1 ,minn4 ,,keep ,,on ,,trying ,,paul ,p4 ,,omahart ,being filled with the determination to force the future to surrender its best opportunities to me1 and fully realizing that this determination must be the mainstay of my confidence in my own powers to accomplish whatever end ,i had in view1 ,i set out for college one ,september day1 the goal of my educational dreams4 ,i had forty dollars in my pocket and possessed hopes of securing several jobs that would furnish me board1 room1 and a little spending money4 ,i spent most of my days around and about ,dayton1 ,ohio1 prior to this time and had never been in a larger city4 ,columbus1 ,ohio1 the capitol of the ,state and the location of ,ohio ,state ,university1 appealed to me as being a place that must surely afford me an opportunity to earn my way through college4 ,having arrived within her borders1 ,i immediately hastened to the vicinity of the ,university and rented a room4 ,i soon found a room-mate1 the room costing us seven dollars4 ,i had decided that if necessary ,i could sleep in a hay-mow and ,i would have done that very thing before ,i would have turned my steps homeward4 ,i next picked out a restaurant4 ,the proprietress came forward and gave a smile which encouraged me to present my cause to her4 ,it was not very many minutes before ,i secured a promise of a job1--to be taken on probation4 ,this was what ,i wanted1 as ,i knew ,i could soon impress her that ,i meant business4 ,but this only guaranteed me my board4 ,i then sought a job up town as clerk4 ,i had had a little experience in a shoe store at home and felt rather safe in tackling such a job in ,columbus4 ,at the second store to which ,i applied1 ,i was able to make a bargain to serve as clerk nine hours every ,saturday for three dollars4 ,this made me feel that my present college problem was solved4 ,before the year was up ,i lost my shoe store position and applied at a haberdasher store4 ,i had little experience in this line1 but felt that if ,i should heed instruction carefully and work diligently ,i could hold down the position4 ,owing to this fact ,i was never disappointed by losing work due to my inability to 8make good40 ,during the summer1 at the close of the first year1 ,i was able to secure a position as stenographer4 ,i obtained my stenographic knowledge the year after ,i left high school1 working during the day and attending a business school in the evenings4 ,i might also state here that ,i was able to supplement my earnings during my first year at the ,university by little jobs of typewriting to be had about the campus4 ,the money that ,i earned during the summer had to be partially diverted into other channels1 and left me but little more to start the second year than ,i had the first4 ,i was a little more familiar with surroundings1 however1 and knew just what avenues to take for remunerative employment4 ,i went about it almost as ,i did the preceding year4 ,i first obtained a restaurant job4 ,then it was not long before ,i heard of a stenographic position open requiring several hours of my time each evening4 ,this was the most lucrative channel ,i had yet entered4 ,it was not permanent1 however1 as the employer realized that for two more dollars per week he could command the services of a girl for full time each day4 ,i then returned to the restaurant1 and now claim it to be my only salvation4 ,if ,i may add a few words of advice to this experience of mine for any who are similarly determined1 ,i would say1 8,don't give up the ship10 even though you are unable to see from whence your next dollar is coming4 ,make every possible avenue refuse you first4 ,enlist the services of your professors1 make application with every employment bureau1 go up one street and down the other searching for work4 ,this ,i have done and have met with success4 ,if you will do it1 your college course is an assured reality4 ,if you are a man of this caliber1 your studies will not be neglected4 ,after your graduation you will enter life1 having met all its requirements for success4 ,ohio ,state ,university1 ,columbus1 ,ohio4 ,,optimism ,,is ,,an ,,asset ,,edgar ,b4 ,,oxley ,i had never seriously considered going to college until1 during my junior year in high school1 a visiting university professor1 who addressed the student body on 8,the ,advantages of a ,college ,education10 offered statistics to show that1 while only two per cent4 of the high school students of this country ever graduate from college1 about seventy-five per cent4 of the successful men to-day are college graduates4 ,this came as a surprise and a revelation to me1 and set me to thinking seriously about what advantages a college education really had to offer1 with the result that ,i decided that it has many in this day and age4 ,and so ,i resolved to go to college4 ,then there arose the question of finances4 ,i consulted my parents2 they encouraged me in my ambition to continue my education1 but told me that if ,i went away to school it would be on my own resources4 ,however1 ,i knew that there were a great many self-supporting students in the colleges of the ,united ,states4 ,i had sufficient confidence in myself to be willing to make a trial at earning my way as others were doing4 ,i entered the ,university of ,arizona in the fall of #aiaa4 ,the first two or three weeks ,i made expenses by beating carpets1 hoeing weeds1 and mopping floors2 then a newly made friend1 the superintendent of the ,university dining hall1 gave me a job there waiting on table4 ,i was the only student waiter4 ,there were1 in addition1 eight or nine ,japs serving as waiters1 with whom ,i managed to get along all right4 ,from that time on ,i have had easy sailing4 ,to-day1 the ,japs are no longer in the mess hall1 but in their places are thirteen student waiters4 ,this is indicative of the rapid growth of our college1 and particularly of the number of self-supporting students who enter every year4 ,ninety per cent4 of the men students of the ,university of ,arizona are self-supporting2 this is said to be the highest average of any college known4 ,there are three essentials that the young man who enters college with the intention of working his way must possess4 ,first of all1 he must have stamina4 ,call it what you will3 8grit0 or 8sand0 or 8pluck10 it all amounts to the same thing1 that he must 8screw his courage to the sticking point10 and1 in the face of disappointments and rebuffs1 keep it screwed there4 ,the fellow who can best do this is the one who has the happy faculty of looking on the bright side of things4 ,for the young man who starts out to work his way through college1 an optimistic temperament and a flat pocket-book are to be preferred to a pessimistic disposition and a purse with #be in it4 ,the college or university man working his way should take to heart that little rhyme which says3 8,it is easy enough to be pleasant ,when life goes by like a song1 ,but the man worth while ,is the man who can smile ,when everything goes dead wrong40 ,a third essential is inventiveness and originality of mind4 ,many a fellow has worked his way because he could invent opportunities1 while others sat and waited for them to come their way4 ,the young man who goes to college ambitious to work his way ought not to become discouraged when he gets there because he finds the usual occupations taken4 ,let him consider that they are not the only possible ways of earning money2 that there are others1 dozens1 yes1 scores1 of other ways1 and that it remains for him to invent the way4 ,these three essentials just discussed are those that are demanded of the young man4 ,and in return he gains from his experience--what8 ,for one thing1 a stronger confidence in himself2 a deeper1 more abiding faith in his own abilities2 he puts them to the test1 and finds them not wanting4 ,and if he finds any wanting1 he feels stronger in realizing his weaknesses4 ,another thing that he gains is a surer appreciation of the value of money4 ,he may never have had to earn much before4 ,but when at college he is thrown on his own resources1 when he gets each dollar by hard work1 he appreciates its value--and he will be slow to waste it4 ,grit1 an optimistic outlook1 and a quickness to discern or to invent opportunities1 then1 are the three essentials for the young man ambitious to earn his way through school4 ,and when he has achieved his ambition1 when his college days are over1 and someone asks him1 8,was the experience worth all the hardships it cost you80 he can unhesitatingly answer1 8,yes1 many1 many times over40 ,university of ,arizona1 ,tucson1 ,ariz4 ,,the ,,desire ,,for ,,something ,,better ,,fred ,i4 ,,patrick ,when a boy at the age of sixteen1 ,i lived with my father on a very poor1 rocky1 stumpy farm near ,joplin1 ,mo4 ,my education and financial condition were very limited4 ,i attended the country graded school until graduation4 ,one day as ,i was toiling among the stumps on our little farm1 it came into my mind1 8,what good am ,i doing here1 and what good might ,i do had ,i the opportunity80 ,it was only a few weeks before ,i received a circular letter from the ,joplin ,business ,college1 offering me the opportunity of attending this school and of making my expenses while there4 ,i had only #be and to me the task seemed hard and the burden heavy2 but within there was a burning desire for something better1 something more elevating than the companions with whom ,i had associated4 ,on the #aith day of ,november1 #aiji1 ,i entered the ,joplin ,business ,college4 ,i enrolled and graduated in the bookkeeping1 stenographic1 and penmanship departments within a period of two years4 ,i was compelled to earn entirely my board1 room1 and clothing while ,i was attending school2 and1 in order to do this1 ,i waited on tables in restaurants1 mowed lawns on ,saturdays during the summer1 did janitor's work at the business college1 was janitor at the ,presbyterian church1 read gas meters for the ,joplin ,gas ,company1 and worked in a shoe store on ,saturday nights4 ,after graduating1 ,september #a1 #aiaa1 ,i was chosen as assistant secretary of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a41 ,pittsburg1 ,kansas4 ,i had been with the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 only one year when ,i concluded that my work in that department was limited1 and that ,i needed more education in order to be of service to my fellow-men4 ,the boys' secretary assisted me in getting the position as private secretary to ,dr4 ,campbell1 ,president of ,cooper ,college1 which ,i am now attending4 ,in this way ,i am able to make my expenses and carry regular college work at the same time4 ,during the summer months ,i travel as field representative for the ,pittsburg ,business ,college4 ,in this way ,i make enough to buy my clothing and pay incidental expenses during the winter4 ,every man who makes his way for three or four years in a college of any kind realizes in a full measure the value of his time and money4 ,he learns to have confidence in himself2 he learns to be more dependent upon himself2 and in many ways he learns the ways of the world4 ,many times during my business college career ,i went without meals in order that ,i might have enough money to meet the other expenses of the month4 ,my tuition was paid1 only as ,i could make enough over my board and room to make payments on it4 ,my desire is to become a ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 secretary1 and it is to this end that ,i am working4 ,i hope to attain this blessing by making my own way through college4 ,cooper ,college1 ,sterling1 ,kansas4 ,,determination ,,versus ,,poverty ,,leroy ,w4 ,,porter ,at the age of twenty-one ,leroy had developed the idea that he ought to do something for mankind and for the world in which he lived4 ,one day he sat in the shade of a large tree pondering over this matter1 and he thought1 8,i can never do my part in making the world without an education40 ,and he thought that every man had a part2 for he had come to see through his reading that most men who had accomplished things were educated4 ,but as he turned these things over in his mind1 he remembered that somewhere he had heard of young men working their way through college1 and he said1 as if speaking to the ants that were ascending and descending the trunk of the tree1 8,if others have done that1 ,i can40 ,after he had rested1 he got up1 went into the house and said1 8,mother1 ,i believe ,i will go to college40 ,but his mother said1 8,why1 my dear boy1 you have no money1 and your father could not help you1 for he is not well and cannot support the family4 ,you have been so very good to stay at home after you were of age to help us and give us the money you have earned at spare times40 ,leroy said1 8,well1 ,mother1 others have worked their way through1 why can't ,i80 ,on ,january #bb1 #aijh1 ,leroy arrived in a college town in the ,middle ,west4 ,after he had introduced himself to the treasurer of the ,college1 he was questioned as to his means1 and replied that he had but #eh cents left4 ,when he was asked how he expected to go through college without money1 he answered1 8,by work40 ,that was a satisfactory reply1 so he was assigned to a room4 ,the weather was bad for some time1 and work was scarce1 but after a while things got better4 ,one day a fellow student said to him1 8,i know where you can get work for your board and room by taking care of a cow40 ,he investigated and accepted the work1 and held it until school was out in ,june4 ,during vacation he worked on a farm and on a railroad section1 and returned to school in ,september4 ,everything was all right until ,february eleventh1 when he1 along with a hundred other boys1 was put in quarantine with smallpox4 ,for eleven days he was in the hospital4 ,when he came out his arm was so sore he could not work1 and his eyes were so weak he could not study4 ,he had to go home4 ,the next fall1 after cutting corn and picking apples until winter1 he returned to school and found work as janitor4 ,he occupied the basement of a large building1 receiving his rent for firing the furnace4 ,he earned his board this winter washing dishes in a fraternity house4 ,later he decided to 8batch0 and lived chiefly on rice and beans4 ,after selling books through vacation the time came to return to school1 but his father fell sick1 and for days lingered between life and death4 ,after he began to recover he went ,west to recuperate1 leaving the support of the family on ,leroy4 ,when ,september came again1 his money was gone4 ,he found a position as night operator in a telephone office1 and continued here until school was out4 ,looking back over the past1 he says1 8,they who trust in ,god and work will gain the victory10 and he assures the world that he is not sorry that he made the effort1 and assures every young man who has good health and determination that he who wants an education can get it4 ,liberty1 ,missouri4 ,,the ,,real ,,needs ,,of ,,the ,,world ,,carl ,e4 ,,rankin ,at present there is much discussion as to whether a young man should earn the means for his own education or not4 ,i shall try to give1 in this paper1 my reasons for working my way through college1 and the methods ,i am using4 ,my reasons for obtaining the money for my education by my own efforts are threefold4 ,in the first place1 ,i believe that ,i can get more out of my college course if ,i have to bear my own expenses4 ,the student who goes to college with the purpose of working his way through will strive harder to make every moment count than the student who has no such responsibility4 ,secondly1 ,i believe that by working my way through college ,i will be better fitted for life through training in economy4 ,economy is something that is essential to success and happiness4 ,we can acquire it only by long and incessant practice1 and surely there is no better opportunity for practicing this important acquirement than during our college days4 ,last of all1 ,i believe that ,i should work my way through college because in so doing ,i will be of more service to the world4 ,before a man can be of the most service to the world he must have a broad education that has trained him to reason and observe4 ,he must be able to see the needs of the world and must have the ability to cope with them4 ,thus it is to be seen that if ,i will be better equipped for my life work by educating myself ,i will be able to see the real needs of the world1 and surely if ,i am better equipped to see those needs ,i will be better fitted to take my place in life and cope with them4 ,there are three methods ,i am using to earn money to bear my expenses3 ,first1 by working during vacation4 ,last summer ,i worked on my uncle's farm1 and was able to save about eighty dollars4 ,secondly1 ,i do some kind of work during my spare hours while ,i am at college4 ,in this way ,i have been able to pay my board4 ,i find the most profitable employment to be that of agency work of some kind1 such as selling clothing1 ties1 college and class pennants1 and stationery4 ,in the third place1 ,i borrow some money each year4 ,i am paying interest on this money1 and hope to be able to pay back the full amount within a few years after ,i finish my education4 ,in addition to the money that ,i borrow1 since ,i am a ministerial student1 ,i receive some money from the presbytery each year4 ,in this way ,i count on a total of about two hundred and sixty dollars a year4 ,davidson ,college1 ,davidson1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,the ,,one ,,who ,,succeeds ,,is ,,the ,,one ,,who ,,tries ,,margaret ,,helen ,,scurr ,i am a freshman at ,simpson ,college1 and am working my way through4 ,when ,i graduated from high school last spring1 ,i did not think that ,i could be in college this fall4 ,my mother could not afford to send me4 ,i had no means of my own4 ,i would be too young for two years to be entitled to a teacher's certificate2 and in the little town where ,i live1 it is very hard for girls to find for themselves any other employment4 ,i was sorely dissatisfied with the thought of being out of school so long2 for though ,i dearly love to study1 ,i knew ,i could not make much progress without good books and teachers1 which in private study ,i would not have4 ,i was fully resigned to the necessity of postponing my college course for several years4 ,how foolish ,i was ,i soon found out4 ,one of my high school professors had been asking me repeatedly why ,i didn't go to college4 ,at last1 in desperation1 ,i told him ,i didn't want to be asked that question any more1 because ,i couldn't afford to go4 ,he calmly responded1 8,i don't see how you can afford not to go to college4 ,these are the most vigorous years of your life1 and one of them spent away from your studies will make school work much harder and much less interesting to you4 ,a year of idleness will dull your appreciation of1 and keenness in1 all that school can give you4 ,if you wait until you have saved money enough to go1 it is very probable that you will become discouraged1 and your ideal will retreat from you4 ,go now6 ,work your way through6 ,it will be easy60 ,i wish someone would say words like those to every high school graduate4 ,to me they were a revelation4 ,work my way through8 ,why1 nobody but boys ever did that2 how could ,i8 ,but finally ,i allowed myself to be persuaded that1 since others had done it1 ,i could at least try4 ,one thing was greatly in my favor3 as honor graduate1 ,i had been awarded free tuition at ,simpson ,college1 for one year4 ,immediately ,i set out to provide for other expenses4 ,i made tatting by the yards1 and sold it to whomsoever ,i could4 ,i gave music lessons1 but1 since there were so many other music teachers in town1 ,i could not make much in that way4 ,i was very well satisfied that ,i was able to make enough to pay for my carfare to the college town1 my term fees1 and my books4 ,a friend found a place where ,i can work for my board and room1 so that my expenses now are practically nothing4 ,i am in a private home1 and help with the housework4 ,my work and my classes are so arranged that ,i often have several hours in which ,i can do extra work1 which is nearly always available4 ,thus far1 ,i have not had to borrow4 ,i should not advise students to borrow unless it is quite necessary4 ,i do not like the idea of incurring upon myself the responsibility of a debt4 ,but most colleges have a loan fund1 and ,i should surely prefer to avail myself of that rather than to stop my school work4 ,so here ,i am1 making my own way1 doing what ,i thought was impossible2 and ,i am happy4 8,but does not the work take so much time and strength that none is left for studies and for social functions80 someone will ask4 ,here1 indeed1 a little optimism is necessary2 but1 once get the work properly systematized1 and there is no waste of time4 ,the studies will be sure to find themselves a place1 as do most of the social functions4 ,and who cares for being a little tired8 ,i am young and strong2 ,i can laugh fatigue away4 ,i am sure that ,i shall appreciate my college course much more1 if ,i get it for myself1 than ,i should if ,i were dependent upon others for it4 ,if it were given to me1 and if ,i passively received the gift1 ,i might fail to understand its value4 ,whereas1 if ,i myself must put forth the effort for it1 ,i shall be brought to realize how much it is worth4 ,then1 too1 what a splendid tonic for self-respect it is to be doing things for one's self6 ,it makes one feel strong and independent1 an individual capable of serving one's self and others1 and not a poor weak thing for everybody to stumble over or stoop to assist4 ,i fondly cherish the idea that the independence thus gained will help me to carry on whatever profession ,i may choose as my life work with greater facility than ,i could otherwise4 ,the ideal of any true profession is to help humanity2 if my education1 whether gained within the walls of the college or in the great school of life1 but fits me to be helpful to my fellow creatures1 it will have fulfilled its purpose4 ,does anyone still ask why ,i want to work my way through college8 ,in return ,i ask1 8,why should ,i not80 ,there is no reason why any girl should not have a college education if she sincerely desires it4 ,money counts for little2 it equips none with armor wherewith to face the battles of life4 ,in getting an education1 as in all things else1 health and pluck are the only requisites4 ,individual effort must be exerted4 ,the girl who succeeds is the girl who undertakes all kinds of work1 in school or elsewhere1 happily and heartily4 ,simpson ,college1 ,indianola1 ,iowa4 ,,the ,,help ,,yourself ,,club ,,albert ,,eldon ,,sellars ,when ,i first conceived the idea of going to college ,i thought such an undertaking was entirely out of the question1 for ,i was a boy without means4 ,but ,i had a good supply of enthusiasm and so determined to try it4 ,i decided that ,i would have a better chance at a small college1 so ,i chose ,hanover4 ,upon my arrival there in the fall of #aiaj1 ,i began a series of very interesting1 often embarrassing1 but always amusing experiences4 ,i had just enough money to pay my board for one week1 but ,i used my brains more that week than ,i ever had before in my life4 ,i soon found a grocer who needed help on ,saturdays and he said he would give me a position that would pay #a4be per week4 ,the first night ,i was in town ,i noticed that the evening mail arrived at #i ,p4 ,m4 and that only a few people were at the postoffice1 so the next day ,i called on about a dozen families and agreed to bring their mail to them each evening for ten cents a week4 ,this turned out to be a gold mine1 for after about a week ,i had fifteen families on my list4 ,these things1 with a few hours of rug-beating and window-washing occasionally held me up during my first year at college4 ,when ,i went back the second fall ,i started a shoe-shining parlor1 and soon worked up such a trade that ,i had to get an assistant1 and finally as my work in the grocery took more and more of my time1 ,i turned the shoe-shining business over to him and spent all of my spare time in the store4 ,i have many times lain awake at night and thought out schemes to make self-help money for myself and others4 ,last year we organized a club1 calling it 8,the ,help ,yourself ,club10 of about twenty or more boys4 ,i was 8,chief of the ,employment ,department10 and when we became known we had all the work we wanted to do4 ,anyone wanting any kind of work done from shorthand dictation to cistern cleaning1 called or telephoned to me and ,i sent a man to do it and saw that it was done4 ,our plan proved even more successful than ,i had thought it would1 and the club is to be a permanent one4 ,this year we are planning to go into business on a large scale4 ,one of our members is to start a lunch counter4 ,the shoe-shining and repairing shop is to be resumed1 and ,i am thinking of setting up a penny picture studio4 ,in closing this1 let me say1 8,rah6 ,rah6 ,rah60 for the boy who has worked his own way through college4 ,he learns to depend upon himself and that is the greatest lesson one may learn at college or elsewhere4 ,new ,castle1 ,ind4 ,,the ,,how ,,and ,,the ,,why ,r4 ,f4 ,,shinn ,i was born in the ,arkansas ,river ,bottom in ,pope ,county1 ,arkansas1 and reared on the farm4 ,my parents had practically no education1 but plenty of practical 8bay horse0 sense4 ,both father and mother were real ,christians1 and taught us children those principles4 ,i am the sixth child of twelve4 ,father died when ,i was eleven years old4 ,at thirteen ,i broke away from mother's teachings4 ,i went to working in the coal mines and worked there and on the farm until ,i was twenty-two years old4 ,i used tobacco in every form1 swore1 danced1 drank whisky1 and in fact ,i committed the entire catalogue of crimes4 ,i was converted at twenty-one1 under the ministry of ,wild ,bill ,evans4 ,immediately ,,god called me to preach ,his gospel4 ,i felt as distinct a call to get ready as ,i did to preach4 ,at this time ,i did not know that ,hendrix ,college was in the world1 although it was just forty-five miles from home1 nor did ,i know of any other college4 ,somehow ,,god began to open my eyes1 and old ,shinn began to work with ,,him4 ,i was the oldest child at home at this time4 ,mother said that she could live without my help1 and if ,i thought ,i could get an education by myself she was willing for me to go4 ,i packed my little bundle of clothes in a little canvas suit-case1 and walked across the country to ,hendrix4 ,this was in ,august4 ,when ,i arrived here ,i saw the president1 ,dr4 ,stonewall ,anderson4 ,i 8batched10 and cut wood for him three weeks4 ,i found out that ,i could not enter even the ,academy of ,hendrix4 ,i went back home1 went to a little country school in the fifth and sixth grades1 then to a little better school that winter1 made a crop and worked at the mines until ,september1 #aijg4 ,then ,i came again to ,hendrix and entered the first year ,academy4 ,i had no money to begin with1 and ,i have managed for every dollar ,i have used4 ,i have never asked for a job of work of any kind4 ,i was a few days early and ,i did general cleaning up1 from mowing the campus to washing windows4 ,my work was of such quality that the matron chose me as one of the waiters in the dining-room4 ,i was asked to run the dairy department the next year4 ,i did this work four years4 ,last year ,i did the buying for the dining hall4 ,i have the dairy department again this year4 ,i cut meat1 clean up the basement1 and the campus1 and keep up all odd ends that ,i can4 ,i have played baseball two years1 and this is my fifth year in football4 ,i was business manager of our ,college ,magazine last year4 ,i have been our representative to the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 conference at ,ruston1 ,la41 twice4 ,i preach during the summer vacations4 ,i have worn clothes that the boys gave me every year since ,i have been here4 ,i sometimes buy a reasonably good suit1 coat1 or trousers1 from some of the boys very cheap4 ,i have not missed a meal nor a class on account of sickness since ,i have been here4 ,this is the 8,how40 ,and the 8,why0 is because there is no other way for me to get through4 ,this way suits me4 ,the best time of my life has been since ,i have been in college4 ,hendrix ,college1 ,conway1 ,arkansas4 ,,making ,,use ,,of ,,every ,,opportunity ,,sheppard ,o4 ,,smith ,it was my vague wild dream1 the dream of returning to school1 ever since in my sixteenth year my days at the country school ended4 ,my father had purchased forty acres of land1 every acre of which bristled with giant pines1 hemlocks or spruces4 ,to subdue and turn this into a farm without capital made my presence at home most necessary at the earliest possible time1 ,i being the only son at home large enough to saw and roll logs4 ,but ever my soul welled up within me as ,i thought of the world's tasks2 and at times forbidden tears came as ,i realized my inability to add my part4 ,for from early boyhood ,i had dreamed day dreams of usefulness4 ,the words of the poet ever taunted me as ,i repeated them1-- 8,in the world's broad field of battle1 ,in the bivouac of life1 ,be not like dumb driven cattle1 ,be a hero in the strife40 ,at nineteen1 my younger brother having grown out of the country school and into workdom1 ,i went to seek my fortunes in the beckoning ,west4 ,four years of 8bumping against the world0 served only to increase my desire for knowledge4 ,but the thought of entering school at twenty-three with little boys and girls embarrassed me1 till happily my attention was called to ,st4 ,paul's ,college at ,st4 ,paul ,park1 ,minnesota1 about forty miles from where ,i was then employed1 where1 ,i was told1 other men of similar ages and circumstances had found suitable environment4 ,i got into correspondence with the president of the institution1 told him ,i wanted to go to school1 but didn't have much money4 ,anxiously ,i waited for an answer to that letter4 ,it came4 ,i could fire a boiler in one of the heating plants and help take care of the campus4 ,this would pay my board and room rent4 ,other odd jobs1 he suggested1 would help out in tuition and incidentals4 ,school began on ,tuesday2 so ,monday found me speeding for college1 with ninety dollars to begin a college career4 ,never did a man approach a college with less of self-confidence than ,i4 ,the cows1 as ,i crossed the fields to the college with a number of students-to-be1 seemed to look at me with hungry eyes2 for why should ,i not suppose that even the cows around a great institution of learning were sufficiently educated to know a green freshman4 ,i soon acquired the combination of the heating plant1 so that ,i could roast or freeze the dormitory inmates at will4 7,some say it was mostly the latter47 ,however1 things passed along very successfully1 save an occasional dilemma announced by shrieks of terror-stricken girls in rooms where spirting radiators demanded immediate presence of the janitor4 ,at times ,i was offered odd jobs by professors and neighbors1 not the least in importance of which was the milking of the president's cow night and morning1 the same cow whose wistful gaze ,i had so loftily interpreted on that first day1 an opinion which ,i was soon forced to surrender1 for ,i found that she had made poor use of her opportunities to acquire culture1 unless it were physical culture or athletics1 for occasionally1 and without warning1 she chose to dismount me from the milking stool and stick her foot in the milk pail in a very uncivil manner4 ,these employments1 with an occasional opportunity to help in the college laundry1 added very materially in making my first year in college4 ,my first vacation was spent in a partially successful attempt at selling books in ,saskatchewan1 ,canada4 ,the latter part of the summer was spent threshing in western ,minnesota4 ,i returned to school about five weeks late that fall with scarcely as much money as on the previous year4 ,the president had written to me that he would employ some boys in the kitchen and dining-room that year and offered me one of the places1 a proposal which ,i promptly accepted4 ,this work brought about the same pecuniary returns as the firing had1 and left some time as before for odd jobs4 ,the second summer was spent in my home vicinity in northern ,michigan after what seemed a necessary absence of nearly three years4 ,but ,september soon came again4 ,my summer's work had not netted so much as the previous summer's earnings1 but experience and familiarity with conditions at the school added faith for another venture4 ,i had resolved to try rooming out and boarding myself4 ,a room was offered me by an aged widow and her daughter who taught in the public school4 ,in payment for the room ,i was to tend the furnace4 ,the work was a pleasure1 the home was an exceedingly pleasant one in every respect1 and ,i was made welcome in all parts of the house2 and1 save in one respect1 ,i was contented in my situation4 ,this one thing was in boarding myself4 ,though ,i believe that1 too1 would have succeeded had ,i had a room-mate to share the domestic duties4 ,my hostess in her kind1 motherly thoughtfulness saw my discontentment and suggested that ,i add a few more of the domestic duties to mine and take one meal each day with them4 ,this ,i consented to do1 though ,i felt1 and still feel1 that the service rendered was insufficient to pay for what ,i received4 ,i intend some time to clear my conscience by1 at least partly1 making up the deficiency4 ,during this year ,i found almost regular employment in the college laundry on ,saturdays1 which1 with the other earnings mentioned1 carried me through my third year4 ,during these three years ,i had made use of every opportunity to broaden my intellect and develop my small talents4 ,the ,literary ,society1 the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a41 the ,temperance ,society and the ,epworth ,league1 aside from class work1 offered splendid opportunity for practice in composition and public speaking4 ,commencement had come again4 ,another graduating class went out from our dear old college halls to enrich the world4 ,again the question of earning the funds for school faced a few of us1 who were fortunate enough to have to 8paddle our own canoe40 ,after working a few days in the vicinity of the college1 a fellow student1 of similar circumstances1 and ,i went into ,north ,dakota1 where we spent about two months working on a farm4 ,a minister in the town near which we were employed1 hearing that we were students1 invited us to his home where he consulted us concerning doing some substitute work in filling a number of ,sunday charges which happened to be vacant at that time4 ,though quite inexperienced in pulpit work1 upon being urged1 we consented to do our best4 ,there was something at once humorous and long-to-be-remembered in this situation1 as1 on account of scant room in the farm house we were obliged to take our suite in the barn hay loft1 which we heartily christened 8our first parsonage40 ,and who will deny that the cackling of chickens1 the bawling of calves1 the whinnying of horses and the grunting of pigs in an adjoining building1 together with the other barnyard dialects1 was an inspiring atmosphere for spiritual reflection8 ,this work1 aside from the practice and added self-confidence 7for1 modestly1 we did have a degree of success surprising to ourselves71 added considerably to our funds4 ,school days approached again1 but owing to an unprofitable move on my part1 my acquired capital did not inspire me with confidence to return to school4 ,but through the kindly interest of a friend ,i was offered1 in loan1 an amount sufficient to make it possible for me to return4 ,not many weeks passed before ,i again secured the work of firing one of the college heating plants4 ,this year the work of firing was facilitated by an apparatus which ,i invented and constructed1 by which the drafts were opened at any desired time in the morning by means of an alarm clock1 the boilers having been coaled up before retiring4 ,the machine worked perfectly and added an hour to my sleep in the morning1 thus lightening my labor and increasing my rest4 ,still the time required for all the work mentioned1 together with the added responsibilities of the senior year1 constituted a load not easily carried1 but when accomplished1 gave all the more pleasure4 ,my experience in largely making my own way through school is no tale of heroism4 ,the same can be accomplished by any man with ordinary ambitions and circumstances1 and an appreciation of higher education4 ,there are just a few essentials4 ,let the man who hopes to work his passage in school take with him a worthy aim1 a sturdy backbone1 strict habits of dependability1 a good set of morals1 and best of all1 a consecrated ,christian character1 for the confidence which his conduct commands will be his best1 and at times his only capital4 ,i am sure that no one who ever accomplished his own support through college will deny that it was made possible very largely through the interest and kind thoughtfulness of some generous souls who find the worthwhileness of life in helpfulness to others4 ,in my room beside my table hangs a card which reads1--8,when on top1 don't forget the folks who run the elevator40 ,i look with thankful memories1 as does many another student1 toward those whose carefulness has enriched my life2 to the president who proved a kind and prudent school father2 to the professors and school-mates whose words of courage brought me out of many a slough of despond1 and not the least to those who proved true1 unselfish friends in the exigency of trying circumstances4 ,my dear friend with worthy dreams1 do not hesitate to make the plunge1 out from which you will come strengthened and invigorated for life's battles4 ,have you missed1 in your earlier years1 the educational advantages due every man and woman8 ,your experience has but fitted you to better appropriate knowledge4 ,and let me add1 your maturity will make it possible for you to lay a larger service upon the shrine of school and college life4 ,st4 ,paul's ,college1 ,onaway1 ,mich4 ,,education ,,worth ,,the ,,price ,,mary ,e4 ,,west ,the first several years of my school life passed pleasantly enough in the little district school at the corner of my father's farm in ,southampton ,county1 ,virginia4 ,they are remarkable to me now not so much for the attainment which ,i made in the three 8,r's10 as for the fact that they gave me the desire and ambition for a well-rounded education4 ,i remember quite distinctly the first money ,i ever earned4 ,i was ten1 ,i think1 and the amount paid me by an uncle for some nominal service1 the nature of which ,i do not recall1 was one dollar and sixty-five cents4 ,my aunt asked me how ,i would spend it4 ,i considered and then replied that ,i would save it1 add to it as ,i got money and when the time came1 go to college4 ,she laughed1 and her skepticism was justifiable1 for the treasured sum was soon gone1 leaving behind it1 however1 something of infinitely more value than the trifles purchased by its commercial value1 namely2 a definite hope for a college education4 ,when ,i was thirteen1 my mother died1 the home was broken up and ,i1 the oldest of five children1 went to the little town of ,wakefield to live with my great-aunt1 a widow of some means4 ,it was her intention to educate me1 giving me the advantages of college training1 and at her death to leave me her small fortune4 ,fifteen months later while ,i was convalescing from appendicitis and typhoid fever in a ,richmond hospital1 she died after a short illness4 ,she was delirious to the last and died intestate2 therefore her property went to her nearest relatives and ,i returned to my father4 ,he was and is a lumberman1 owning at that time a sawmill in partnership with a younger brother4 ,naturally1 ,i could not remain for a great length of time in a sawmill camp4 ,the other children were with my father's people4 ,he considered for a time putting me in ,corinth ,academy1 a ,quaker school of ,southampton ,county1 but finally decided to continue me in the district school of ,wakefield4 ,i returned to this town to board and attend school4 ,i finished the grammar school that year4 ,during the summer the ,people's ,telephone ,co4 organized1 and put the exchange in the hotel where ,i boarded4 ,for the novelty of the thing1 in the week preceding the beginning of the fall high school term1 ,i learned to operate the switch-board with no idea of ever becoming its regular operator4 ,two weeks later the chief operator resigned to accept a position in the city1 the assistant became the chief and ,i found myself the new assistant4 ,it was my first year in the high school1 and when the novelty of the new work was gone1 and the demands of heavier school work became insistent1 ,i found that ,i had taken upon myself no light task4 ,my office hours were long1 from five to ten in the evening on emergency duty1 a night bell in my room from ten at night to six in the morning1 active duty again to seven1 and one hour at noon to relieve the other operator4 ,the work was not heavy or hard1 but extremely irritating and nerve racking1 especially the emergency duty4 ,those first months were hard indeed1 but ,i steadfastly refused to give it up4 ,it had gratified me exceedingly to write my father that ,i could bear a part of my expenses and the idea of resigning my position never occurred to me4 ,my salary was small1 twelve dollars a month1 but to me it meant independence and ,i was immensely proud of it4 ,but there was another thing working in my brain which gave me no rest4 ,the other children were dissatisfied4 ,we had been separated three years and ,i wanted to bring us together again as one family4 ,father could not be with us on account of the nature of his work1 so a sister of my mother agreed to stay with us1 and when the ,new ,year came we were once more together in a little cottage not far from the telephone office and quite convenient to school4 ,the active work of the home did not fall upon me1 but the responsibility did4 ,to me1 father directed all instructions1 made all checks1 and of me required all reports4 ,i think ,i am safe in saying that in the four years we endeavored to hold together barely a paper of pins was purchased without my knowledge and sanction4 ,i planned and thought out everything about the home from the daily menu to the hanging of the garden gate1 kept up my office and school work1 attended ,sunday ,school and church regularly and did my best to live before my brothers and sisters a life which should stand for truth1 honor and square dealing4 ,the years of my high school life came and went and often ,i despaired of the end4 ,the state of family finance fell low4 ,the business venture of my father failed to make good1 through no fault of his nor of anyone else that ,i know1 but because of conditions of the market and so forth4 ,at any rate1 ,i know that the small amount which ,i earned was welcome in the family purse1 and ,i remember very well a period of perhaps two months when we depended solely upon my efforts4 ,those years were by no means easy4 ,there were conditions of which ,i may not write that were trying in the extreme--days when ,i despaired of the future--nights when ,i very nearly lost hope of ever attaining any degree of the cultural training upon which ,i had set my heart4 ,it is by no means an easy task to finish a full high school course with credit1 even with plenty of time and no serious problems of living to face4 ,i have never been and am not a brilliant student--,i make no claim to more than average intellect in any branch of study1 and in some subjects ,i am hopelessly dull4 ,but ,i had a strong determination to win if it was humanly possible1 and a very strong incentive and inspiration in the continued love and trust of those about me4 ,to the faculty of the ,wakefield ,high ,school ,i owe much for the encouragement they never failed to extend me when ,i became more than usually depressed4 ,to ,professor ,j4 ,j4 ,lincoln and his wife1 ,i am especially grateful4 ,they not only gave me encouragement and inspiration in many difficult places1 but kept alive in me the desire for education4 ,i finished at length the high school work1 having earned in the four years about five hundred dollars and taken five prizes offered in the school for excellency of work1 two of these being medals1 and the other three1 money prizes4 ,until the last year of the high school work ,i had entertained no hope of college4 ,the desire and ambition were quite as strong in me as ever4 ,the thought of the end to which ,i had devoted my childish earnings for a time1 never left me4 ,but it looked quite impossible and ,i resolutely faced the certainty of teaching once ,i had attained my high school certificate1 and to this end ,i prepared myself4 ,that last year1 however1 things looked brighter4 ,father's business prospects brightened and ,i began to wonder if after all a college course was not possible4 ,the idea of attempting it at my father's expense at a time when he was beginning to straighten up past deficits and bearing at the same time a heavy running expense1 ,i did not like4 ,i conceived the idea of taking a course in stenography during the summer and by means of it1 paying a part of my way through college4 ,we broke up the home and a week following my graduation were in ,salisbury1 ,maryland1 boarding with relatives1 and my sister and ,i attending the business school4 ,i saw directly that the time was too short to gain any satisfactory degree of efficiency as a stenographer1 but my ships were burned behind me and there was nothing to do but work as best ,i could until the fall opening of ,elon ,college1 ,north ,carolina1 which school ,i had determined to attend4 ,we intended to make another home in the college town to which we were going and with this intention arrived there a week before the date of opening4 ,i was tired4 ,i still did not lack the desire1 but the strong purpose which had before held me up could not longer spur me to the effort necessary to undertake the task before me4 ,i realized that it was utterly impossible to manage a home and attend school4 ,a way out of the dilemma was suggested by the ,president of the ,college4 ,we became members of the ,young ,ladies' ,club1 an institution conducted on the coperative plan4 ,my sisters and ,i became college students and my brother and two little sisters entered the graded school of the town4 ,it is nearing the close of my freshman year in college4 ,with the exception of my tuition for which ,i had a scholarship from ,professor ,lincoln1 ,i have been dependent upon my father for this year's financial requirements4 ,to continue my course in college at his expense is from my point of view1 quite impossible1 willing and ready though ,i know him to be4 ,his expenses1 past and present1 are heavy1 his business status though steadier and daily growing better is still unassured1 the other children are to be considered2 so ,i have definitely decided either to teach the coming year or return to college1 paying my own expenses4 ,how ,i may be able to accomplish the latter1 ,i do not know just now1 though ,i have a plan which if it materializes will assure me the coming three years in college4 ,of one thing ,i am assured2 a college education is a desirable thing and worth the price to be paid for it4 ,it is not quite as easy for a girl to pay her way through as it is for a young man1 her opportunities are fewer and as a rule not so good1 but even at that ,i have a feeling that if she desires it strongly enough and puts herself in a position to be worthy of an opportunity it will come quite as surely as to him and she will make a stronger1 finer woman for having faced serious problems and grave difficulties and won out over them4 ,elon ,college1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,work ,,no ,,class ,,barrier ,,lucile ,,wright ,upon finishing my preparatory course at the ,university of ,wyoming ,i desired to enter the ,university proper1 and in order to do so1 determined to earn money by teaching4 ,for seven months ,i taught a country school about two miles from my home on the ranch4 ,although it was rather discouraging to enter college a year behind my class1 ,i did so1 and during most of my freshman year kept house with my sister in two rooms rented from a private family4 ,it kept us very busy getting our studies and keeping house1 besides working in the musical clubs1 basketball and ,young ,woman's ,christian ,association4 ,the next year my sister and ,i lived at the girls' dormitory4 ,i earned most of my way by helping clean the girls' rooms4 ,sometimes ,i made extra money by addressing bulletins1 or fixing seals on diplomas1 etc41 in the secretary's office4 ,last year ,i helped in the dining-room at the dormitory1 thus earning my board and room4 ,since ,i am specializing in household economics1 ,i was given the position of teaching sewing in one of the classes in the ,training ,school of the ,normal ,school of the ,university4 ,with this aid ,i was able to pay all of my expenses4 ,this year my mother is in town sending my two small sisters to school by boarding several of the university students4 ,i assist her with this work and also have my sewing class in the ,training ,school again4 ,my sister and ,i agree that at the ,university of ,wyoming no distinction is made against a person who is earning his or her way4 ,on the contrary1 he is encouraged and respected in this work4 ,and why not8 ,a proof of the statement which ,i have just made is in the fact that ,i am a member of ,pi ,beta ,phi1 of the ,y4 ,w4 ,c4 ,a4 ,cabinet1 the ,girls' ,glee and ,mandolin ,clubs1 and ,i take part in various other university activities4 ,when ,i graduate in ,june ,i expect to secure a position as instructor of home economics in a high school4 ,this position pays a good salary1 and is interesting work1 and ,i am sure that ,i shall never regret the time which ,i have spent in attending college nor in doing work to make my college education possible4 ,university of ,wyoming1 ,laramie1 ,wyo4 ,,part ,,iii ,,how ,,to ,,work ,,one',s ,,way ,,through ,,college ,how to work one's way through college is a minor question compared with the question of character1 ideals1 purpose1 faith and all that makes a man faithful to his nobler impulses4 ,the chief asset for the attainment of a college education is a passion for knowledge1 knowledge of the truth which sets a man free from all forms of error and false ideals4 ,our life is a constant struggle against our limitations4 ,and the first asset of a cultured mind and heart is1 that the soul shall be sensitive to the finer things in life1 shall 8see visions and dream dreams0 until the soul in its thirst for the great things of earth and heaven shall break beyond the stars and catch a vision of the ,soul of all truth4 ,a young man with such a fire burning on the altars of his heart1 with the sweet incense of his morning and evening prayers ascending as an expression of the ,god-ward aspiration of his soul is on the sure road to true culture and a genuine appreciation of life and all its issues4 ,how is a boy ever to come into the possession of this soul hunger1 this restless discontent with himself and things as they are8 ,there are some souls at whose shoulders wings seem to play1 lifting them to great heights where they can hear things 8unlawful for them to utter40 ,but there are others to whom the incentive upward must be imparted2 in some way their ears must be attuned to the finer voices2 the moral soul must be brought into a conscious realization of its own powers and the possibility of coming into the sun-burst of ,god's presence1 and thus make a man forever discontent with himself4 ,where is the average boy to get this blessing1 this first incentive to culture and nobility of life8 ,if the atmosphere of the home is not such as to give it1 either he must get it around the altars of the church1 or from the personal touch of some friend1 or preparatory teacher4 ,so many people live under a low sky1 8in the dull stagnation of a soul content0 that the contagion is as heavy as the frost of winter upon the young and sensitive spirit4 ,once a young fellow has caught the vision1 once he has heard the higher voices calling him upward1 he will follow the beck of the spirit through college halls and on to high endeavor and noble living4 ,as ,i said1 at the outset the question of ,,how to work one's way through college is a minor question4 ,it depends on what you can do4 ,if you are ambitious1 begin to prepare yourself for college1 also for working your way by learning to do something that everybody else cannot do4 ,remember that the world needs men with big hearts1 clear minds and skilled hands4 ,you can be all this4 ,why not resolve to-day and go forward1 following the guiding star of a ,christly ambition in the spirit of ,browning1-- 8,who never turned his back but marched breast forward1 ,never doubted clouds would break1 ,never dreamed though right were worsted1 wrong would triumph1 ,held we fall to rise1 are baffled to fight better40 ,,rev4 ,w4 ,e4 ,,brown4 ,council1 ,n4 ,c4 ,,does ,a ,,college ,,education ,,pay8 8,we ,americans are an intensely practical people4 ,our investments must promise liberal returns in cents and dollars4 ,from this standpoint a college education is an absolutely safe and most profitable business venture4 ,in this country the average annual income of the college graduate is #fjj greater than that of the man not holding a college degree4 ,now1 #fjj is #e per cent4 of #ab1jjj1 and this means that the average college-bred man has safely stored away in his brain an educational capital equivalent to #ab1jjj in gold1 in excess of the capital at the command of his brother without a college training4 ,no father can leave his son a more valuable or profitable heritage1 for the young man cannot lose it1 no one will ever be able to steal it from him1 it is safer than a government bond1 and the interest from it will never be in arrears4 ,large as they are1 however1 the financial returns from a college education are not as great as other benefits4 ,the intellectual training1 increased mental powers1 enlarged capacity for rational enjoyment1 the increased efficiency for service to ,god and man--these are1 after all1 the essentially great benefits to be derived from a college education of the right sort4 8,you have heard scores of men express the deepest regret because of their lack of a college education1 but you have never heard anyone regret having taken a college course4 8,it has been calculated that the college man has three hundred times the chance of winning fame and distinction over the man without a college education4 ,it is the shortest road to success40 ,transcriber's ,note3 ,inconsistent hyphenation is as in the original4