New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

the student boarders left outside their doors
each morning, sweep the stairs and halls, NOW
the lawn and perform other equally unpleasant
tasks. Each morning him rise at o'clock
and each night found him studying up to a late
hour to make up for the lost time which he had
been expending in this outside work
Few college men have difficult a time as
this but it shows what one must be willing TO
accept if he is relying wholly upon his own
efforts to secure his education. The student
mentioned is at the present time living in
splendid college room. and. although still pay
ing his own expenses, has a sufficient income to
purchase all the reasonable comforts OF life. In
a word after his earlier deprivations he struck
il rich" Naturally bright and capable, he did
not stay long at the task of bootblacker and
hodcarrier. and, although he did not shrink
from such duties in case of necessity, he soon
demonstrated that he was fit for something far
more seemly and lucrative.
For men who are willing to work as this man
did Harvard presents many opportunities for
earning livelihood Board can be obtained by
waiting on table in Randall Hall or by man
aging some private eating club and rooms, espe-
ciaIIy if they be in private residences; can, in
many instances be paid for by odd jobs, such
as shovelling walks. moving lawns and taking
care of furnaces Furnace work, indeed, has
helped pay more than one mans expenses
furnace is worth from 81 30 to s. 30 week,
and if a man can get eight or of them to
look after he is assured of good, comfortabie
income. A prominent business man in Boston
to-day worked such scheme as this during his
freshman year in Harvard, and many others
have also carried it through with success
OF course, the big items at college are board
and rooms Randall Hail. however, gives forty
or fifty students chance to earn their food by
waiting, and rooms are obtained in many ways
Three Harvard students last year obtained free
quarters simply by occupying big house While
its regular inmates were away. Another man
STAYED with an old woman who was afraid to
live in a mansion alone, and third got a
splendid, large room for reading one hour
night three times a week TO nearslghted out
intellectual maiden lady
These opportunities, however do not come to
every student The majority have TO pay actual
money for board and rooms. and in the earning
of this money often resort to peculiar and in
genious expedients. The methods such as type
writing tutoring, singing, clerking, teaching in
night school and stenography, are, OF course,
familiar to all. Hundreds of students find en-
ployment along these lines, and by means of
them pay part all of their college expenses.
A large number, the other hand, depend
wholly upon their wits Advertising offers a
good field to these men, and they invent count
less schemes to attract the business houses o, Il
Cambridge and Boston and even of New-York
and Philadelphia.
One of the most familiar of these is the blot
ter scheme-a copyrighted idea Of a Harvard
man for the free distribution of desk blotters
for use in students rooms. Advertisements are
printed in an attractive manner on both sides
by the merchants constitutes the student-specu-
lator's sole gain. An average of 500 is cleared
each blotter after the expenses OF material,
printing and distribution have been paid A
hustling student can solicit the ads" and get
the whole thing off his hands in less than two
weeks.
Many other contrivances similar in principle
to these are also worked-some paying only
mere trifie and others proving veritable gold
mines. The most profitable of all is the "Har
ward Register" red book" published each
year by a Harvard man. giving lists Of Har-
ward organizations, information regarding ath-
letic teams and records, and complete cata-
logue of officers students and instructors of the
university. A nominal price is charged for the
book but the main income is derived from the
advertising, much as $500 being cleared on
the publication in one year The Harvard
Guide" programmes of the big athletic meets
between Harvard and Yale. and the Senior Class
Book are correspondingly profitable.
In somewhat different way money is OBJ
tanned from calendars and catchy PAM
phlets the only difference being that the re-
ceipts here come from direct sales. One of the
cleTerest-although not the most praiseworthy-
of these ideas introduced few weeks ago
by a little Italian boy who stationed himself at
the entrance of Memorial Hall and shouted as
the students came along: Get your liars license