Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-01-03
EARNING AN EDUCATION,
How Impecunlous Students Manage to
Obtain q Colleko Courae.

education may cost nowadays. Consider
Ing tho generous scholarships, cheap
board, low room-rent and ample oppor-
tunities OF self-help, it may truthfully
DO said that there is no one 80 Door in
money as to be debarred the privilege
and advantage Of a college course if he
has pluck and health. -...-
This is especially true ut Williams
A man really in need of help may re-
ceive scholarship of 500 year, and in
case OF extreme need, $3.50. This does
not depend upon his ability as student
further than that he must pass his ex-
aminations. Board is furnished by the
college at low figure, and unfinished
rooms arc rented as low as Sl5 q year
for each man.
Besides offering beneficiary aid, the
college employs q number Of students in
college work. Tho monitors, whose
only duty is to keep attendance reports,
are paid Sl5 year. Tho care Of build
ing brings anywhere from $50 to S:'8, &C
cording to the amount Of work req uired.
Attendants in tho library make from
$50 to 500. The man who rings the
chapel bell gets his room and some
thing besides. Tho organist makes
$3.50, and every mem Der Of the chapel
choir $50.
A large number Of students are en-
gagged in work independent Of tho
college. Those who wait on table.
favorite emp loyment, get their board
free. At present junior and a
sophomore are running an clearinghouse
and paying large share of their ex-
pcnscs out Of tho proceeds. Several
keep stores, selling athletic goods and
Gentlemens furnishings, and running
Troy laundry agencies. A student from
Armenia deals in oriental goods. Ono
enterprising man buys and sells
secondhand furniture, undoubtedly
making lordly profit at tho hands of
unsophisticated freshmen. Members of
the college quartet and editors of the
Weekly and the Literary Monthly mako
moro or less, but nothing magnificent.
Tutoring brings fair remuneration.
a young man working his way
through college is generally addressed,
ill-fed and ill-housed. Sometimes,
however, one meets typo that wears
fashionable clothes, boards Mt
"Jimmie's" and rooms in Morgan Hall,
but Is as truly working his way as a
waiter in tho hash house." This
magnificent character PLAYS poker
whenever he can get any one to play
with-apd also makes largo but iudici-
GUS bets on the ball games. Ilo Is the
parasite of college life, but only very
rarely is he to be found at Williams.
Occasional sums are made in odd
ways. student last year mado him
self railway ticket agent for week
before vacation, and cleared small
fortune. A man from an adjoining
country village brought in o quantity
OF maple sugar from his fathers farm,
md drove q thriving trade as long as his
stock lasted. Before q semi-annaal ex-
animation a great deal Of moro or less
hasty reviewing is necessary; and, to
save tlmo as we'll as labor, students
sometimes gather in con. pani.s of
twenty or Whereabouts anu pay q man to
read the "trot," while they follow in
tho Greek and Latin text. Each man
pays the reader FIVE cents on hour, and
tries to believe that he Is ready to meot
the dreaded "exam."
Quite number of mon find employ
ment altogether outside the college.
Several sing in church choirs, and one
junior makes handsome sum by giving
banjo Lessons in the neighboring town
OF North Adams. During the spring
term few get work on the farms near
"Billville." A poor out plucky student
rises at five every morning and takes
care OF the stage drivers horses, spend
ing his spare moments before breakfast
In reviewing his Thucydidos.
Prize winning may be made very prof.
table, though 1t is seldom regarded as q
means OF support. The valedictorian
last year carried off over $500, and q
member Of the class Of vi took more
than $3.50, and is in fair way TO keep on
in the good work.
Occasionally a student eets more than
HIS share Of good fortune There was
once man at Williams who took care
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