The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-22
College Opportunities.

One Of the most hopeful and encourage
Ing things in our social order is the in
creasing ease with which a. college educa-
tion-every year deemed more necessary
10 success in life-fs placed within reach
of all. Many of our most successful
business men have literally worked their
way through college, and as the oppor-
tunities for earning money while gain
ing an education are the more eagerly
sought, the matter of finding places for
applicants is being systematized, so that
the door to collegiate knowledge is ever
opening wider and wider.
To-day there is no difficulty in anv
youth who is skilled in some line OF
useful work earning his way through
college. for there is, 1t has been found,
always plenty OF work to be done. ANY
lad. for instance. who has taught him
self stenography can earn enough at col
lege 10 pay his board and tuition fees
and still have money with which to enter
into the social side OF college life. Those
students who have qualified themselves
for tutoring may always look forward
10 ample remuneration, and in Harvard.
Yale, and Cornell there are students who
are making exceptionally good livings IN
this way
But even if man is not specially quail
ifed, there is still plenty OF chance for
him, if he be the right sort and in
earnest. to work mis- way through college,
and it is not necessary even for him to de-
scend TO such humble employment as be-
ing a waiter in a restaurant though we
fail 10 see why a man should be any
the worse for even such sort of service.
L is shown that during the last term at
Yale the students earned no less than
$3.50, 449. At Harvard the sum earned was
Sl3S, $40. At Yale there were 1S2 students
who earned their way through college by
tutoring, the amount they thus secured
being $3.50; br there were 1856 other stu
dents who Sc, ed as walters. and they
earned 81 - other students got through
by Carl +" houses and grounds.
The sort + democracy implied in thus
earning ones way through college is the
real dy d-ln-the-wool democracy that is
tn - idamentaI strength of our nation
As a matter Of fact, we believe that 1t
might be a great thing for the country,
for its strength of character and its
moral tone. if earning ones way through
college were the only way TO get through.
1t may, as a matter of fact, and In spite
of any access to rich fathers, become the
way in which a majority of American
students shall get through. As it be-
comes known that this method of secur-
ing a collegiate education is possible and
carries with it no snobbish thoughts of
degradation, it is becoming more sought
after. The Yale bureau of appointments
has. since the opening of the college year.
been able t. find ganful occupation for
So out of go applicants, and at Harvard,
where here were S1S applicants. posi-
tions we've obtained for III And the
work If Il college bureaus of appoint
ments mas. in a measure. only begun.
With greater experience they viii, I'M
doubtedly. be able to extend the field of
their usefulness and to provide places for
youths who, self-reliant. earnest, and pur-
poseful. are DESTROYS. at any pains. to be
fitted by education the better TO serve
themselves and the world