Evening star., 1932-09-04


the same scale as in the Col
1eye Of the Ozarks located in the heart of the
Ozark Mountains in the little town of Clarks-
VILE Ark.
Here 1t is not a matter of doing some cleri-
cal work to earn pin money, or Of waiting on
table in the fraternity house to pay for an ex-
ira coat. Here it is question Of making all,
or the major part, of he $325 which the col
lege charges each student for board, tuition,
room and everything else.
Only Is per cent of the undergraduates have
the money sufficient for their college expenses;
the rest must earn the tuition costs by steady.
constant manual labor.
Many aspiring students come to the College
of the Ozarks with less than $106 in their
pockets and leave at the end OF four or hve
hard-w working school years with q degree that
In recognized by the best schools in the land.
Most Ozark undergraduates have spent their
childhood in the barren unpainted wooden
zhscks Of the bleak and unproductive Ozark
Mountains far from civilization and in ignor-
ance Of any modern comforts
THEY arrive at college in drab, homemade,
] homespun clothes or dresses crudely made
from -four sacks because they have never
known anything better, nor have their fathers
before them After graduation, they go out
into the world to take business and teaching
positions in their native State or in distant
parts where they can make a name for them
selves and their school
The young men and women at this unique
educational institution work on the college
farm. i'm the college dairy. the canning factory,
the printing shop the garment factory and the
kitchen.
They pay their tuition in the form of the
potatoes they have raised, the cotton they have
gathered. the butter they have churned. the
peaches they have canned, the school maya
ZINES they have printed. tie dres. es they have
sewed and the meals they have cooked
They study conscienti5usly and diligently,
literally burning the midnight oil Yet before,
between and after classes they never rest, but
are constantly at w-Fk earning their keep"
No kind Of manual labor is too hard for them.
The men act as janitors of the school build
fngs, sweeping the class rooms IN which they
listen to lectures science snd the arts. They
mix the concrete for whate- CT repair is dine on
campus ard they Icy the walks en- the college
grounds.
Every bit of work tine boys dor
mitoFy. one of the four brick buildings which
the college boasts. was nc by the students
themselves. from the ex awaiting of the ground
to the painting and p spering of the rooms
The girls are no slackers, either. They act
as cooks dishwashcrs. housekecpers and maids
in the college halls and they do whatever c,er-
icsl work is necessary, to.
But even the combined activities of the col
lege campus and the college sef-help depart
ments like the farm and thc factory, do not pro-
vide enough work to support the entire student
body in their quest for higher education. Ccn-
sequently, the employment bureau of the COL
lege finds work for the rest in the city OF Clarks
vile. town OF 5000 inhabitants. where the
school IS built.
There the "co-eGs' may b, found washing,
ironing and taking Of children in private
homes. while the boys repair the streets, tend
furnace shovel coal End milk the COWS be.ong-
ing to the vii g fa-~7ers.
IF you're no. ia.nIliar vita he Ozark Noun
tain range wi!ere the college is located it's
that chain of pcturIs-ue hi IS which takes in
half of Arkansas and parts CT Missouri and
TEES
In apit> CT the flcL thas This region c-ntains
the cnly diamond nre so far discovered in
America and furnishes the Nation with much OF
the ere from which S.un1iEum is extracted, as
vel goody gu ntities of pine, hardwood,
rice end colt n, the mountcinec-s who inhabt
the Ozark5 are a p-or end backward popaa-
~tion. They have always .acked capital and good
leadership.
Since few foreigners h W 7yzr settled there,