Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-12
GETTING AN EDUCATION
Some Of the Best Fruits Of Adversely
May Be Gathered In the
Schools
By SARAH ID. LOWRIE

SCHOOLS
BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE
THE question as to how a boy can get an
l. education without his family having TO
pay for II comes up In many household
and is often left nm open question until too
late. i sometimes think that there shouid
tho free and semi free educational oppor.
tunitics possible to Il boy or girl. and the
conditions OF mind. body or estate that
would make these opportunities available.
LNOR instance, there are whole colleges
L given over or nearly given over to the
graduates from high schools who have got
scholarships. In every university there are
whole or part time scholarships. and most
''prcp' schools have number OF scholar
ships to certain colleges. as well as scholar
ships for their own school years. The big
ger and the richer n university, the better
chance there is for an industrious. healthy
student to earn his way and, indeed. more
than earn his way through--at least. his
last three yenrs-by tutoring and BY acting
rs agent for one or another kind OF COM
modify or service.
In fact, it is the best policy for boy
educating himself in the sense Of finding
his own board. keep and college fees to
make for the bigger colleges: Being an
Garner will not affect his social condition II
he Is worth knowing on other counts. but
the fnct that n good many other fellows have
care of his board and keep bill, without his
losing one jot of self-respect.
I'VE known great many boys-threc gen.
L crations of them. for began early with
my kith and kin and ill their pals--and !
never knew a boy who earned his way
through college to have hard time. When
vacation came rich and poor were off to-
gcther. being entertained either by their
families or their friends. In fact. 1t is inn
possible TO tell who is who. or what any one
is UP against when Il crowd of college men
are together.
find myself strcssing this social side of
1t because not long ago ] had discussion
with man who had earned his way through
one Of the smaller colleges. He insisted
that he would have sat on the curb his
own expression. and would never have found
himself IL he had gone to one Of the famous
universities. because, being Il poor man with
lots TO learn about people and things. he
would have been completely lost among q
crowd of more sophisticated, better boys.
lie had Of course. in his young days, all
the things in him that have since made him
both famous and most lkable And ! held
to 1t that u university is not different from
the world. \ man is found out in both
placcs--a little sooner in college than in the
world, If anything.
THERE are snohs in all places in the
L world. persons who hold themselves above
their companions socially. either because they
are better educated. or are more religious.
or are better placed. or want to be thought
better than they are; but among boys or
girls at college there is Il feeling for. not n
feeling against. the boys and girls who are
working their way through. And 1t is not
n feeling Of sympathy. let alone patronage.
1t is feeling of added respect.
And it is the same sort Of respect that n
boy feels for another boy who jumps or
runs or plays tennis up among the first
rankers. For all of them know that out in
the world the chap who has earned his way
through college possesses weapon Of Of
fense and defense against poverty that the
boy who has been supported all his life up
to his first job in his twcntes does not
possess.
T SUPPOSE that where the technical ad-
l. vantage of having money or people with
money behind You comes in Is not in your
school nor in your college days. but in the
preparation thnt you have to get in order
to BE- the master of any trade or profcssion
the technical training to be I'm engineer or
an architect or a chemist or biologist
or n specialist OF any kind.
Let us say that ones family has done with
out the wages of the sons and daughters of
lNe mousse us thc lanllS snare IN the getting
of the high school or even the college
courses and that the student graduate then
takes n position that supports him. lie can
either keep on indefinitely in that position
nj 80 much or so little a week. or he cun
better his earning rowcr and gain higher
position.
There are two ways of bcttering your
earning power. One is by what YOU learn
at jour job. and the other Is by what YOU
learn outside your job.
TNIlE time to learn outside your Job is at
Mi ght. or course. gcn"r ,lly. night
schools are not for the very proficient, but
for the persons of lilt!" education who want
II little more. But now and then there are
night schools for III" proficient to train
thrm TO be- 5" efficient that they eventually
become experts and masters Of their pro-
fcSSionS.
Suppose u boy graduates from the high
school and takes II Job as nm electrician n
or as Il mechanic, aud suppose he finds him
self 50 naturally Interested in the whole
business of mechanics or of electricity that
he wishes I" h"rom" II mechanical or an
electrical engineer. lie cannot stop work to
go to II school lik" III" Boston 'Tech." but
he has both til" energy and the ambition
to work ut night.
Well. that IS wher" n school such as the
Franklin lnstitut" School comes In.
TNllE night courses in mechanics, in naval
l. architecture, in draughtmanShiD of
technical kinds. in electrical and in mcchnu
ical engineering III men to take long very
long steps forward in their trades at a mini :
mum fee and with every facility for study
Of machinery at first hand. with technical
| library and world famous lecturers and cx :
| pcrts at their service
One Of the great physicists of the Uni.
vcrsty of Princeton. Prof. Augustus Trow
| bridge, told me this spring that he counted
! his lectures now and again before the
Franklin Institute among the greatest
chances Of his profession The degrees tho
institute confcrS tn" guests that It enter.
tains and the Investigations and special
studies that it pursucs are world famous.
| T GOT from one of its officers not long since
little list Of some Of the institutes