Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1890-03-26
EARNING AN EDUCATION,
How lmpecunious Students Manags to
Obtain "a College Course.

education may cost nowadays. Consider
ling the generous scholarships, cheap
board, low room-rent and ample oppor,
tunities of selfhelp, it may truthfnlly
be said that there is no one so poor III
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 a scholarship of 500 a year, and in
case of extreme neod, Slao. This does
not depend upon his ability as student
further than that he must pass his ex-
aminations. Board is furnished by tho
college at low figure, and unfusnished
rooms are rented as low as Sla j year
for each man.
Besides Offering beneficiary aid, tho
college employs number of students in
college work. Tho monitors, whose
only duty is to keep attendance reports,
are paid s15 year, The caro- of build
ing brings anywhere from $50 to $50, &C,
cording to the amount O. work requ;red
Attendants in the library make from
$50 to 500. 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 q junior and
! sophomore are running an eating-housc
and paying a large share of their ex-
penses out OF tho proceeds. Several
keep stores, selling athletic goods and
gentlemen's furnishings, and running
Troy laundry agencies. student from
Armenia deals in oriental goods. One
enterprising man buys and sells
| secondhand furniture, undoubtedly
making lordly profit at tho hands OF
unsophistic9ted freshmen. Mcmbers of
the college quartet and editors OF the
Weekly and the Literary Monthly mako
more or less, but nothing magnificent.
Tutoring brings fair remuneration.
A young man working his way
| through college is geporally addressed,
| ill-fed and iil-housed. Sometimes,
| however, one meets type that wears
fashionable clothes, boards at
''Jimmie's' and roops in Morgan Hall,
but is rs truly working his way as
waiter in tho ''hash house" This
magnificent character plays poker
whenever he can get any one to play
with-apd also makes large but judici-
ous 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 railway ticket agent for a week
before Vacation, anl cleared small
fortune. A man from an adjoining
country village brought in a quantity
of maple sugar from his fathers farm,
and drove thriving trade as long as his
stock lasted. Bsfore somi-annual ex-
animation great deal of moro or less
nasty reviewing is necessary; and. to
save time as we'll as labor, students
sometimes gather in companies OF
twenty or thereabouts and pay man to
read the 'trot," while they follow in
the Greek and Latin tcSt, Each man
lays the reader Ave cents an hour, and
tries to believe that he is ready 70 meet
the dreaded exam"
Quito number OF mea end eu.p3oys
ment altogether outside the epllpge.
Several sing in church ohpirs, np,S ono
Junior makes a haEdsomo sum by giving
banjo lessons in The nEigAbpeing tpwp
OF North Adams. During tha spring
term few get work on the farus hear
"BillYille." 4 poor but piarsy student
rises at five every sn9ri,.ag ana takes
caro- of the stage driyef's horses, sposd-
ing his spare mpmeats heilrG breakfast
in reviewing his Ihpcylidos,
Prize winning may he rsaua very prof.
itable, thaugh it is salqsm sGaagdel as
meaps OF supaort. The saledic,orian
last year earr,al on pYar $500, and a
member q the glsss Of ~ took more !
than $3.50, and 10 ia u fais sey SO keep on
in the good work
OecssiApally a eta1ent gets more than
his Share ai sgud fortune. There was
onca nisM as Williams who took care
OF professors ,,iaon and got furnished
room ana washing free in payment for
his work, earned his board by waiting
on table, received college aid to the
amount af $50, and made $50 by taking
care OF a building and SO more by sing
ing in the chapel choir. OF course this
was an osceptipnal case; but there are a
great many mna at Williams who earn Q
large share of what they spend, and
no5ler resolutions and manlier pluck
are rarely to be found.-N. Y. Sun.
No Use as n Typowriter.