Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-20
THE STUDENT LABOR FUND
A. 4 N. College Provides for Every
Ambitious Boy to Receive
an Education.


benefits in order that they may com
plete college education, is one oil
the features of A. & M. college that
has helped many boys through the
flour years course.
There is no tuition charged at the
college, but tuition would be the
smallest expense for student. There
is board to pay, books to buy, clothes
must be had, and for all these ex-
Ipenses money is needed 1t is well
known among those who are connect
ed with educational institutions that
very large percentage Of the stu
dents are without the amount neces-
sary for the first cost in entering a
college. The legislature of Texas has
been providing $1,000 per year, but
the demands upon the fund have been
increasing so that next session it will
be $4,000, and it work will be extended
to more boys than heretofore,
This fund is in no sense a charita-
BILE movement. becaue actual work
must be done to earn any portion OF
it, and that work must be some neces-
sary work about. the college depart
ments and the college property. The
institution maintains a farm, a dairy
herd, a creamery, a laundry, steam
and power plant. Horses, sheep, hogs
and cattle must be taken care of, and
janitors must be had for the many
buildings. The boys who get part of
the student labor fund must do this
work. Some milk cows, others deliver
milk. others do regular farm work;
some have positions as janitors in the
various buildings in which they are
students during the class hours of the
day. Others work in the laundry
where the clothes of the students are
Numbered
Before any student can be enrolled
for student labor he must make for
nal application in writing for the
work, and state the class of work he
is fitted to do. He must state his
financial ability, how much of the
money he has to defray his expenses
that he earned himself, and how much
is necessary for him to go through
the year. He must show that he needs
help, and when these questions are
answered he is provided with a card
that authorizes the college depart
ments to employ him for such time
each month that he may earn Ger.
tain sum. If boy needs but SO per
month to carry him along, he is al.
lowed to earn Just that much and no
more. because the excess over his
needs must go to some other boy.
The boys who work their way
through college" prove to be good
They are advancing in the
professions which they have selected,
and are making good in the world. B.
Youngblood, who has been of the farm
investigations, bureau of
plant industry, United States depart
ment of agriculture. started his col
lege career in Texas while he was
sweeping cobwebs from the
COW barn, and afterwards he MIXED
cows and did other work with the
dairy herd. He is today one of the
best known field men in the service
of the United States department of
agriculture. and but a few days ago
was elected director of the Texas ex-
pertinent station at the college where !
he graduated, at salary of $4,000 per !
year He is only 81 years of age.
Hedge Ness, a native of Norway, i
came to A. & NJ. college when he
could hardly speak the English Ian
guage, and he had to work his way" !
He began his service at the barns, /
working all he could and studying to Z
keep up He graduated in 1889. and
then went to Cornell university, where !
he finished course, and for years |
he has been an officer of the college .
in which he first worked and studied, |
being an authority in horticulture. in |
charge Of experimental work and re- !
search Investigations. He has mas.
tered languages in the meantime and |
reads Greek, Latin, French and other !
as readily as he does Eng
lish.
Byton Gist now a stock raiser at |
Memphis, Texas, had the agency for |
a city laundry while he was a student |
of the college and worked at it all |
the time until he built up large pat
He earned his own way |
through college and employed several
fellow students to assist him. thus |
giving them the financial help they
needed.
C. N. Bentley who is now with the
Western Electric Company in Chi
cago, worked as a painter on the col
lege property while he was a student
of electrical engineering, and his
work made it possible for him to fin