College Men Without Money

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r to give up the idea of having a college education at all. I ha

t he died when I was scarcely fifteen years old, and my hope of ever securing a college education vanished. Seven years late

ds of other students in a similar situation, that it would be better to delay beginning my college course until I had saved enough money to give me a good start. This I did, farming another year and spe

n get, and must usually work at a minimum wage. Often, too, the only work which he can get is mere drudgery. The man who can sing or can play a musical instrument well, the man wi

of the college paper and to learn to be a printer. I did not need to earn money during

willing to instruct me, and at the end of a year I had become so proficient that I was employed as

orting for one of the 10 city daily papers published in the college town. For this work I was paid a definite amount a column,

ient to furnish me enough money to meet my regular college expenses. They gave me, also, more pleasure

ailing their wares, but I preferred to work on the farm for two reasons: such work offered me a definite sum for my summer’s work, small though it might be, and I was in such a position that I felt

conclusion that it 11 is seldom a good plan to start upon a college course without money, even if one has to postpone going until that is earned. Unskilled labor is unprofitable, and anyone who would succeed must have or must develop skill or training in some special work. Lastly

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