Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-11-28

who had daring and endurance, or self.
denial, or both.
The most hopeful characteristic of
the American colleges Is the seif.sup.
porting student. The boys who have
worked their way through have not
| only conquered the adverse conditions
| to which they were born but have also
always adorned all professions ana
walks of life. 1t has been said that
any boy in this country who wants an
education may get It, II he wants 1t
had enough. The truth of this II being
demonstrated now more clearly than
| ever before. There IL common COM
plant that tho poor boys chances to
| get ahead In the world are not what
they used To he. This Is not borne OF.
by the facts in any department of life.
More than ever before character Is HE
prime capital for success, and never
before were u poor boys opportunities
for moulding his character ns he sees
tit as good as they are now. There
was time In the history of American
colleges when the earning of money
by u student during vacation to help
pay his tuition bills was so exception.
nj Il proceeding us to excite remark.
But there appears to have been u great
change The growth of the practice Ii
Indicated by the report of the secre.
tary of the Columbia College commit
tee Oh employment for students. from
which 1t appears that Columbia stu
dents during the past summer earned
S31 ,4O1. an increase of $4,000 Ovei
their earnings for the year before. Tho
number of vacation workers this yenl
was nearly 10 per cent Of the entire
university attendance. The Occupa
tons engaged In ranged In varlet!
from truck driving to the operation OF
printing office. and the largest sun
earned was $1,000 by u law student
Many, no doubt, also carry on wage
earning labor during the college term
1t IL unfortunate that this should have
been the case, for no college course
can be what 1t ought to he whcl
broken into by the necessities OF self
support, though 1t II. OF course, IN
better that u student should stud.
under the disadvantage than that III
should not he student at all, Beside
1t has its cOmpensatlOns. What TIT
wnge-earning student loses from tn
college course he makes up In practi
cal application of his talents to tn
g work of real life. He Is better pre-
0 pared, perhaps. to step into his chOsel
: occupation when college days are owe
o than Is the fellow student whose wa.
4 has been made easy and who know
y nothing of the difficulties to be cncOun
+ tered. The boy who works for his cd
|. ucation learns what an education
t for ana places 1t In its proper perspet
v tive in his view of life. And In max
i ing for it he uncOnsciously builds u
n within himself something of NOR
II value even than education, ana that |
j. character. No boy need despair be
= cause his father Is not rich enough I
@ buy him an education. II he wants
@ bad enough he can get it, and b.
i working for 1t get something bette
J. still along with it.
Does 1t pay Canada To be q colon
of Great Britain? Is there anything 1
it, outside Of sentimental sort q
= mother love? The Alaskan declsiO
has convinced good many Canadian
that England cares more for the goo
will Of the United States than she doe
for the interests of Canada; that sh
would sacrifice colony for polite
n and to carry out the blood brOtherhOO
r idea, which Is supposed to make job
{ Bull and Uncle Sam a good deal close