New-York tribune., 1903-01-18
EARNING AN EDUCATION.
CHANCES At HARP4RD.
Many Opportunities for More Self
Help by the Industrious.

Cambridge Mass Jan. Il Especially How
can q DOOR boy work his way through college,
is a question asked by many persons in these
days of ambition and great educational oppor-
funities All over the country colleges are
springing up. Every day some gift or endow-
rnent is recorded in the daily papers and more
and more persons are beginning to understand
the great boon which education means to man
T3u+ these colleges with their S1,000,o00 build
ings their costly. grounds, their palatial dormi-
tories-what they 10 the poor man Who
with few dollars in his pocket, his only suit
of clothes upon his back comes from the shelter
and obscurity of some country home to battle,
stsrve and deny himself for the benefits OF an
education? Surely all these things are not in
tended for him Luxuries. comforts, advantages
privileges such as these can only be in
tended for those who have money to pay for
Them and the poor boy-the boy who has to
shift for hirnself-surey he is barred by his
very lack of means and environment from shar-
ing these glorious opportunities
This IS the thought that springs into every
mind as for the first time, one looks at the
great universities such as Harvard. with It's
age worn buildings Yale. with its associations;
Chicago with its millions; Columbia, Corneli'
Princeton Pennsylvania and the rest
But it is thought that lasts only moment
The sight of shabby suit. smiling face
Of all this wealth and luxury and splendor soon
throws another light upon the situation Here
IS the rightful owner Of the soil-the poor man
for whom. according TO the statements OF the
greatest educators, colleges and universities are
expressly intended He walks as If he were ac-
customed TO his surroundings. He looks happy
and contented. His clothes do not bother him.
and he speaks to his wealthy neighbor with
perfect equality and ease. Above all, he has
an air of independence-the air whlch comes
with honest toll, successful competition and the
knowledge that he is doing his best TO make
The most of himself.
Harvard University commonly characterized
as the .'rich mans college," exemplifes to-day
the statement that has been made time and time
again. that mo man with any grit gumption
or determination need go without college
education however poor he may happen to be. :.
Year after year hundreds Of men work their
way through Harvard. and year after year
Harvard brains and talent and ingenuity are
exhibited in more liberal quantities among the
fnoonspicuous unheard-of self-supporters than
among those better known undergraduates who
shine before all the world for their prowess in
The much advertised activities of college life
Harvard is the poor mans college, if il is any
ones and the way poor are focking TO IL
today pufs the matter beyond dispute
Probably the first qualification for poor man
working his way through Harvard is the VIII
nngness TO accept any kind of work he must
leave his false pride behind him. and realize that
his honest pride viii get many severe test be-
fore he receives his graduation diploma. few
wears ago man entered Harvard who had be-
fore his admission held saIaried place at Sl.2OO
q year Circumstances. however. saw him at
the beginning of his freshman year with only
few dollars in his pocket. and 70 earn his board
he accepted a place in a swell boarding house
which 3 negro had just resigned. His Work IN
this place 10 take care Of the furnace
empty the ashes and sWiiI black boots which