Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1890-09-10
EARNING AN EDUCATION
How Impecunious Students Manage -
Obtain q College Course,

III Is wonderful how little . college
education may cost nowadays. Consider
ing the generous scholarships, cheap
board, low room-rent and ample oppor-
tunities Of self-help, 1t may truthfully
be said that there is no one so poor in
money as to be debarred the privilege
and advantage of . college course II he
has pluck and health.
This is especially true at Williams.
A man really in need of help may re-
ceive scholarship Of 800 q 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 alta low figure, and unfurnished
rooms are rented rs low rs s15 year
for each man.
Besides offering beneficiary aid, the
college employs number Of students in
college work. The monitors, whose
only duty Is to keep attendance reports,
are paid S15 year. The care of build.
ing brings anywhere from $40 to $50, ac-
cording to the amount of work required.
Attendants in the library make from
$50 to 800. The man who rings the
chapel bell gets his room and some-
thing besides The organist makes
$3.50, and every member Of the chapel
choir $40.
A large number of students are en-
gagged in work Independent Of the
college. Those who wait on table. a
favorite emp loyment, get their board
free. At present junior and
sophomore are running an eating house
and paying large share of their ex-
penses out OF the proceeds. Several
keep stores, selling athletic goods and
gentlemen's furnishings, and running
Troy laundry agencies. A student from
Armenia deals in oriental goods. One
enterprising man buys and sells
secondhand furniture, undoubtedly
making lordly profit at the hands of
unsophisticated freshmen, Members of
the college quartet and editors of the
Weekly and tho Literary Monthly make
more or less, but nothing magnificent.
Tutoring brings fair remuneration.
A young man working his way
through college is generally ill-dressed,
ill-fed and ill-housed. Sometimes,
however, one meets type that wears
fashionable clothes, boards at
"Jimmies" and rooms in Morgan Hall,
but is as truly working his way as
waiter in the ''hash house." This
magnificent character plays poker
whenever he can get any one to play
with-apd also makes large but judici-
GUS bets on the ball games. He Is the
parasite Of college life, but only very
rarely is he to be found at Williams.
Occasional sums are made in odd
ways. A student last year made him
self a railway ticket agent for a week
before vacation, and cleared a small
fortune. A man from an adjoining
country village brought in q quantity
Of maple sugar from his fathers farm,
and drove thriving trade as long as his
stock lasted. Before semi-annual ex-
animation a great deal Of more or less
hasty reviewing is necessary; and, to
save time as we'll as labor, students
gather in companies Of
twenty or thereabouts and pay a man to
read the ''trot," while they follow in
the Greek and Latin text. Each man
pays the reader i've cents an hour, and
tries to believe that he is ready to meet
the dreaded exam"
Quite a number Of men hnd 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
torn few get work on the farms near
"Billville." A poor but plucky student
rises at five every morning and takes
caro- OF the stage drivers horses, spend
ing his spare moments before breakfast
in reviewing his Thucydides.
Prize winning may be made very prof
table, though it is seldom regarded as
means of support. The valedictorian
last year carried of over $500, and a
Of the class of '9l took more
than $3.50, and is in fair way to keep on
In the good work.
Occasionally student gets more than
his share of good fortune. There was
once q man at Williams who took care
Of professors place and got furnished
room and washing free in payment for
his work, earned his board by waiting
on table, received college aid to the
OF 800, and made $50 by taking
care Of building and $40 more by sing
ing in the chapel choir. OF course this
was an exceptional case; but there are a
great many men at Williams who earn a
large share OF what they spend, and
nobler resolutions and manlier pluck
are rarely to be found.-N. Y. Sun.