The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-12
College Walters.
CAsrLEroN, W., Aug. 8, 1881.

OASlLbioNs VI, aug y, iooi' |
Editor Herald and Glo6o.-Anent
The extract from the New York Times
quoted in your columns this morning
concerning student walters at summer
in New England; the statement
is made therein with some satisfaction
and scorn for the young men who have
engaged in 1t heretofore, that there Is
not a ''student waiter" to be found this
summer in the whole length and breadth
of New England.
Perhaps it is what might be expected
of q second-rate town like Casllcton,
but the fact is there arc at least two
citizens here that are obliged to confess
with CHI grin that they have relatives,
college boys, who are among the wait
ers at a prominent White Mountain
hotel, and who state that a majority of
the thirty-eight walters are college boys
from Harvard, Amherst, Wesleyan,
Bates and Williams colleges"
Alas for the professional men of the
future, especially the ministry if any
of these white-aproned, white-Sloved
fellows arc earning money to help them
into that profession. 1t wiz certainly
be more "femininc. minded" than ever.
Tluly yor"s,
EDw. r. HOOKER.
The above, from the Herald and
Globe correspondence, is n fine speci-
men ofthe contemplate snobbery which
looks down upon a useful class because
the" work is not such as the snob
world select if he had a choice, We
| never were aware that there was any
| thing so degrading in the work of welt
ing upon q table that it need be a caus
of shame TO any II TO have relatives
eng aged - it.. 1t is honest, nsefu
work. Probably this reverend gentle
man and the able editors who sneer al
walters would be led TO admit this il
owing TO their lofty scorn for the pro
| fession, no one could be found 10 wal
upon them at the hotels where thel
might stop. We should like to know
what these superior beings would hav'
needy students do during their vaca
tons? for il is none but needy one
who undertake the work. Will the,
name over a few ''mar'ier" occupations
at which money is to be earned during
the vacation months of July and Au
gust, by young men just from theii
books and unequal TO hard muscular
labor? We can think ofnone. Would
these gentry put themselves on recorC
| nc rOfnprrt t,r d. .,n, xrls
are struggling with poverty and brave
ly trying to gain an education, loaf tho
vacation weeks away and pinch theil
friends for the mean to pursue theil
studies, rather than don the white apron
and gloves and engage in the useful ant
honest and therefore honorable occupa
ton of table waiting? We for II fee.
the utmost contempt for the silly OK
preston above given of effected alarm
for the future of the ministry, if some
of these laboring studcnts-"fellows'
tbs minister of the gospel, and there,
fore presumably a gentleman, calls
them bctakc themselves to ihat pro
fcssion. Sensible people feel nucl
more respect for the clergyman who
has had self-respcct and manliness
enough TO struggle lis way TO lis pro
fession even by engaging in labor
which, though honorable, excitcs the
scoin of snobs, then for the paupcr.
minded do-nothings, SO many of whom
arc now floatcd into the ministry by
charitable funds and friends, without
whose aid they would fail for The lacl
of pluck and enersy or Though fear o.
degrading themselves by putting 'he''
lilly hands TO some rseful labor.