l implements. One of
his classmates, by the savings of two years' work as a farm laborer,
and money earned by tutoring, writing, and copying done after study
hours, not only paid his way through college, but helped to support his
aged parents. He believed that he could afford a college training and
he got it.

At Chicago University many hundreds of plucky young men are working
their way. The ways of earning money are various, depending upon the
opportunities for work, and the student's ability and adaptability. To
be a correspondent of city daily papers is the most coveted occupation,
but only a few can obtain such positions. Some dozen or more teach
night school. Several teach in the public schools in the daytime, and
do their university work in the afternoons and evenings, so as to take
their degrees. Scores carry daily papers, by which they earn two and
one-half to three and one-half dollars a week; but, as this does not
pay expenses, they add other employments. A few find evening work in
the city library. Some attend to lawns in summer and furnaces in
winter; by having several of each to care for, they earn from five to
ten dollars a week. Many are waiters at clubs and restaurants. Some
solicit advertisements. The divinity students, after the first year,
preach in small towns. Several are tutors. Two young men made twelve
hundred dollars apiece, in this way, in one year. One student is a
member of a city orchestra, earning twelve dollars a week. A few serve
in the university postoffice, and receive twenty cents an hour.

A representative American college president recently said: "I regard it
as, on the whole, a distinct advantage that a student should have to
pay his own way in part as a condition of obtaining a college
education. It gives a reality and vigor to one's work which is less
likely to be obtained by those who are carried through college. I do
not regard it, however, as desirable that one should have to work his
own way entirely, as the tax upon strength and time is likely to be
such as to interfere with scholarship and to undermine health."

Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no
bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may
have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life,
and will often take higher rank in school, and in after life, than his
classmate who is the son of a millionaire. It is the son and daugh