Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-15
Young Men Of Ambition.

piece in the paper last week, re-
citing the life story of a successful
man who had died recently, told that
| he worked his way through school by
washing dishes in a restaurant.
You don't find young men striving
that hard for an education these
days." said a man who had just got
through reading it.
No; the young men Of today are
different. All they think about is hav-
ing a god time" agreed his COM
panion.
The Detroit News had a story this
week about a young man who entered
this fall upon six-year medical
! course in the University of Michigan
I in Ann Arbor. After paying his
n?atriculation and registration fees he
had only three cents left. He had no
! books, nothing to eat, no place to
sleep. and he was stranger in the
city But he has not missed an hour
at his studies He found job picking
apples for five cents bushel in an or
chard seven miles away.
After school each day he walked out
picked apples by moonlight until mid
night, slept in barn. was up before
dawn. picked apples again until it
was time to start walking the seven
miles to school again. and lived on
one meal a day. When the apples
were all picked he got job working
! around the home Of a rich man, at
tending the furnace, the garage. and
lawn, and sleeping over a stable. That
young man will be a good physician.
/ The same paper says that last year
the Y. NJ. c. A. provided jobs for $500
students at Ann Arbor. jobs meaning
anything from carrying ashes out of
cellar to washing windows and raking
! la WINS.
! Young men today are just as ambi-
tious and energetic as they ever were:
and these days are just as good, and
filled with as many opportunities as
were the Good old days Of long ago."
the passing Of which so many persons
are in the habit Of bemoaning.-Kan-
sas City Star
| . To us it seems the most amazing
part that SO many young men who are
willing can break into the fabric of
college surroundings and juggle a liv-
! ing and expenses out Of it. The
writer remembers being told by bril-
liant newspaper man that his college
bills we're not all paid then, IA years
after graduation. Yet before those
days, in those days. and SINCE young
men of more determination than back
| ing have earned their way. step by
step, and had money to get out Of
town with after graduation.
| 1t is useless as we'll as unfair, to
claim that it is always the plodding.
chore- hunting. prudent chap that wins
I highest honors and shines as the
brightest star Of his profession But
il is true that many who fail might
have made good" had they pos
sessed little Of the get there" spirit
which sends some men through COL
lege.
1t is Of interest in this connection to
note that this year American colleges
have enrolled $4,000 students; that.
as one writer puts it, the whole coun-
| try is going to college; that so repre-
sentative institutions report record
enrolments, higher scholastic stand
ards. and increased service to COM
munity. state and nation. Extension
| work. hitherto more or less local, has
, been made to embrace practically all
the eastern states. Professors are be-
ing put at the service Of municipalities
which are in search of expert advice
The number Of scholarships is being
increased. and the opportunities for
self-help broadened.
But in that army Of $4,000 are
Thousands who feel that the country.