The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-07-06
Ways In Which Girls
Have Earned Their
College Expenses

How can / get the money to enable me
to go to college?' This question is being
asked now by great many girls who
are anxious to go to college. but whose
families cannot afford to pay the ex-
penses of college course for them. In
asmuch as great many girls have paid
their own way through college, it has
been proven fully possible, and every
girl whose going to college depends on
her getting some extra money, Should
know how other girls have done it.
The following the some of the ways in
which students at Goucher College have
paid their expenses. They are given
| merely as examples of what an earnest,
| industrious student can do in airy college,
| 1t should perhaps be remarked in the be-
ginning that only an exceptional student
could make money enough to pay her
| board in addition to her other expenses,
| but any girl, if she lives at home or with
| friends in or near the city, can make
| enough to cover her tuition and all ne
cessary incidental expenses.
| Many girls have taken advantage of the
| opportunity offered for work as play
| ground directors during the summer. All
| of the Fairgrounds in Baltimore are open
| during July and August, and several of
| them from the first of May to the last of
| October. The salary is thirty dollars a
month for directors, and twenty dollars
month for assistants.
| Another very remunerative work is that
of coaching private pupils, during the
summer, for which the charges are from
| fifty cents to one dollar an hour. One
/ he &c mt, TO
| tutor or governess for some small child
rem, and thereby greatly increased her
| fund of experience as well as of money.
| These are some of the ways in which
the summer can be utilized for making
money, but in the winter too, the student
can add to her income. One way is by
| acting as emergency substitute in the
| public schools before and after Christ
| mas, as the college holidays are longer
| than the public school holidays and the
| absence of many teachers at that time
gives the college girl good chance to
| substitute and thus earn dollar for
each day.
| Then there are the night schools which
are open three nights week, from Octo-
Der to March, and in which the salary is
| two dollars a night, or an average of
| twenty-for dollars a month. 1t is also
possible for any girl who stands well in
her studies to be recommended by her
| teachers as a coach" for college and
high school pupils who are deficient in
their work, Besides this, in nearly all
| collavnc ~ - in which
It's news columns. And lirough 1t In,
artisers reach the public ear through Pos
advertising columns. A newspaper
Is advertising space exactly as a Sta
'chant sells so many yards of cloth or ban
many pounus Vi sioceries' "heh bell
chant buys space In newspaper, we
not attempt to dictate the sort OF Cor
DIS he shall advertise, so long as there
nothing improper in his advertise
Mt. Exactly so, when man or a &,
nmittee buys advertising space fer oay
expression of an opinion or the max j.
public an appeal, we do not attempt
iay what that opinion or appeal shall
work can solicit subscriptions for popu-
| lar magazines, and in college not in
baltimore, the position of college agent
| for one of the photographers in the city
| pays very we'll.
| 1t is quite a varied list, is it not? But
when there's will there's way" and
| different girls have found different ways
to solve the money problem in college.
Perhaps some who read this article will
determine to go to college, and while
there, will find new and still different
ways, but in any case, what girls have
| done, girls can do"