The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-12-30
WORKING THEIR WAY.
How Some Boys at Chicago University
Pay for Their Education.

How Some Boys at Chicago University
Pay for Their Education.
IT Is a prevalent, though erroneous,
idea that the days when one can work
his way through college are over. Ways
and means are just as plentiful to-day
as they We're twenty-five years ago, and
the earnest student will find them.
There is always colony of such in
Chicago, and q sort of Masonry exists
among them, whereby newcomer Is
looked after till he finds enough work
to be independent. A young man has
more opportunities than a woman, but
there are places for the earnest woman,
too.
The most coveted occupations are as
correspondents of the city daily papers,
but as comparatively few can be thus
employed. the majority have TO turn
their hands to the next thing that
comes to them. From twelve to fifteen
teach night school. Several teach In
the public schools In daytime and do
their university work in afternoons and
evenings to secure their degrees of D.
D. and A NJ. About a score carry
daily papers. which pays them from
$3.50 to $3.50 per week, but as this Is
not sufficient to meet all their expenses.
they must do something else beside,
and they do It, About O dozen have
lamp routes, which occupation pays
$50 to $25 month. This Is not rs
easy work as some may imagine 1t to
be. Still the hours are easier than they
were a few years ago. A few are Sc
fortunate as to find work in the even
ings in the city library. Some attend
lawns in the summer and furnaces in
the winter, earning as much as SIS and
$40 a week, by having several OF each
to care for. Some act as walters at
clubs and restaurants. Some solicit
advertisements and some are book
agents.
The divinity students pay their way
after the first year by preaching in
small towns near Chicago. Several EN-
pioy their leisure hours In tutoring"
less brilliant students than themselves,
making a fine income. Two young men
made as high as 1000 in one year tu-
toring. One student Is a member Of a
city orchestra, which pays him $12 a
week a few are employed in the uni
versity postoffice, which pays about 20
cents an hour. A messenger system
employs a number about two hours
each daily. and some do clerical work
for our professors, though here the
ladies Gre given the preference.
AS has been said, avenues for women
are not SO plentiful, yet there are few.
Several are teachers in the night
schools of the city, and several are
housekeepers for professors and small
clubs of students. A number are do
Ing clerical work, and few do library
work. Some work In the city tele-
phone exchanges from s o'clock p. m.
to 10 q. III. This last Is extremely hard
on the student, but with some 1t is that
or do without the education, and SD the
former Is chosen.
These working students are the
best, as a rule. They stand highest in
their classes, highest in all the athletic
sports, consequently highest in the re-
spect of their fellow students and the
faculty. The first student to matricu-
late at the new university at Chicago
was one of these earnest young men,
who had his way to make One OF tho
associate professors DR.. II vas 9, stu
dent at the old university who gained
his eareatien by all kinds of work. He
had q lamp route" for eight YEARS.
One of the finest American actors, who
is billed to play in Chicago this winter,
was one Of these students.-Chicago
Chronicle.