Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1890-06-25
EARNING AN EDUCATION.
dow impecunious students Manage TO
Obtain College Course,

SuuCduou may ceSG nowadays. consider
ing the generous scholarships, cheap
board, low roomrent 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 a college course if he
has pluck and health.
This is especially true at Williams.
a man really in need of help may re-
ceive scholarship of 800 a year, and in
case OF extreme need, $3.50. This does
not depend upon his ability as a student
further than that he must pass his ex~
aminations. Board is furnished by the
college at low figure, and unfurnished
rooms are rented as low as Sl5 year
for each man.
/ Besides Offering beneficiary aid, the
college employs a number of students in
college work. The monitors whose
only duty is to keep attendance reports,
are paid Sl5 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 $780, 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,
favorite emp loyment, get their board
free. At present junior and a
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. Ono
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 the Literary Monthly make
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-housea Sometimes,
, however, one meets a type that wears
AcsulOHaDle clObneS, boards at
''Jimmie's" and rooms in Morgan Holt,
but is as truly working his way as a
waiter in the hash house." This
magnificent character PLAYS poker
whenever he can get any one to play
with--apd also makes large but iudici-
GUS bets on the bah games He is tho
parasite of college life, but only very
| ror rp1y Ia ba tn ho found INf11iap,s
Occasional sums are made in odd
ways. A student last year made him
self o railway ticket agent for week
before vacation, and cleared small
fortune. A man from an adjoining
country village brought in quantity
of maple sugar from his fathers farm.
and drove a thriving trade as long as his
stock lasted. Before semi-annual en-
animation a great deal of more or less
hasty reviewing is necessary; and, to
save time as well as labor, students
sometimes gather in companies OF
twenty or thcreabouts and pay man to
read the "trot,' while they follow in
the Greek and Latin text. Each man
pays the reader fl We cents an hour, and
tries to believe that he is ready to meet
The dreaded ''exam."
Quite a humber OF men 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. Daring the spring
term few get work on the farms near
'Billville' A poor cut pluea.y student
rises a5 five every morning aad takes
care of The stage drivers horses, spend
ing his spare moments before breakfast
in reviewing his Thucsdides.
Prize winning may he made very prof
itable, though it is seldom regarded as a
means of support. The valedictoriap
last year carried Off over $500, and a
member of the claas of '9l sools more
than S15p, and is in t2ir way so keep on
in the gool work.
Occasionally q student gets more than
his share sf good fortune. There Was
once man at Williams who took care
of a professors place and got q furnished
room and washing free in payment for
his work, earased his board by waiting
on table, r@cetycd college aid to the
amount az S9e, arid made $50 by taking
care OF building and $50 more by sing
ing in Che 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.
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