College Men Without Money

B. AME

set me to work. The first was this: provided I would live at home in Bangor and go back and forth daily to the University of Maine in Orono (

osal. Thus I came to belong, not to a class of “college men with no money,” but rather to that of “college men with little mone

ce I was a somewhat imaginative and philosophical lad. It seemed to me that just as a hill was made not merely for climbing, but that the climber should be rewarded for his attempt by the beautiful view of broader countries seen from the summit; even so a college education was designed, not to be a s

written when I was a sophomore in high school: “School closed (for the summer vacation) Friday. On Saturday I helped Roy

tently during the remainder of my high school course I worked, caring for lawns and gardens in the summer, and running one furnace and sometimes two and shoveling snow in

n the Bangor City Hall. In the fall of the sophomore year I won a first prize of fifteen dollars in the annual sophomore declamations. During the summer between my first and second years in college I worked as an amateur landscap

ks to the generosity of a friend, I was permitted to live at the fraternity which I had joined in my freshman year. Thus I was given an

ty 4 and earned money by selling tickets at various places, giving readings at a church entertainment, winning another first prize in the junior declamations, taking school census in my home ward in Ba

in a larger ward which returned me more money. I won fifty dollars in an intercollegiate speaking contest, and earned nearly sixty-five dollars as substitute teacher in Bangor high school. These amounts, combined with my previou

rse, I feel that it was worth all

ine.