The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-12-01
A COLLEGE EDUCATION FOR Ev-
cry BOY AND GIRL


few years to come Now, to parents
who have not thought of the problem
long and seriously, l can understand
with what panic a father will be seiz-
ed when he wakens suddenly to his
responsibility for the education of his
large family. 1t is probable that sim
ply TO wrest a meager living from the
soil, to provide clothing and shelter
for his flock requires long days Of
toll and nights of planning. 1t may
be that all that he can do with the
problem is to offer a word of encour-
agement to John or Mary who should
now go away to college; but that he
can do, and he should do it. Many a
boy has gone away to school with only
money enough for railroad fare and
a God bless you, my son." and has
completed a college course and has
done we'll in later life. Other boys
have gone without the blessing and
have walked all the way to their frl-
ture "alma mater" and have done
equally we'll. l am pleased to re-
member youth who, when he set out
for his chosen school, found upon his
arrival on registration day that the
sum of So was all he had left for a
four years college course. He re-
manned at college, however, four full
years, did himself honor in his studies
and one of his professors told me that
on graduation day he had $275 of the
original sum with which he had left
home.
The problem of a college education
for the entire family of boys and
girls may be hard one to solve, but
it can be done The question today
is How?
am not quite willing to advise or
encourage any body or girl to start
to college with no money whatsoever,
even though some have done it and
have succeeded in the doing. 1t seems
to me that the boy or girl who is rear
ed from the cradle with the college as
the ultimate goal, will, during the ear
" years, find ways and means of lay
ing by a small sum for this purpose.
That is the better plan. To earn all
/ ones college expenses, and at the
same time carry the required studies
makes the work too burdensOme for
/ average shoulders The social fea-
lures, the recreations and amuse-
ments of college days are too pre-
ciOus a part of the life to be buried in
constant hard work. | know of a col
lege that is now offering what may
be termed a work course" where
young men work on the college farm
and do classroom work week about,
and in that way pay all of their col
lege expenses, room, board, books, til.
ition, equipment, ALL The plan has
worked successfully for the past two
years. and young men of sterling
worth who are making records for
scholarship are being turned out OF
THAT institution.
There are few institutions of learn
ing in the country where a young
man or a young woman may not earn
part of his or her expenses in service
4 to the institution. Farm work, garden
work, laboratory assistance, dining
1 Inn 16Vsry nraly inr tnT
service, all offer opportunity to a
young person who is really in ear
nest about getting an education.
have in mind a young man who is now
a full professor in one of the leading
state universities of the country who
paid his board and tuition during his
college senior year by sweeping and
busting the botanical laboratory. A
young girl Of my acquaintance earned
practically all Of her college expens
es by raising potatoes. At the plant
ing time a plot of ground was set
apart for the daughter and she and
her mother tended" the crop When
: the crop was harvested and sold, the
education fund was put away in the
bank, not to be called into use until
the time to use it arrived Another
parent whom | knew gave a calf each
year to his daughter for her education
fund The entire care of the animal
was left to the little girl and it is
needless to say that as time went or
she became an expert animal hus
bandry woman" AS | write this and
remember the numbers and numbers
of unused acres l have seen all over
the southland that would offer food
and sustenance to flocks of sheep OF
goats or calves which might be turn
ed into other education funds, | real
ize the wasted opportunities about US
Mrs. F. L. Stevens, in the Progress
i've Farmer.
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