usand persons--students,--directly connected with
Harvard University," writes a graduate, "five hundred are students
entirely or almost entirely dependent upon their own resources. They
are not a poverty-stricken lot, however, for half of them make an
income above the average allowance of boys in smaller colleges. From
$700 to $1,000 are by no means exceptional yearly earnings of a student
who is capable of doing newspaper work or tutoring,--branches of
employment that pay well at Harvard.

"There are some men that make much more. A classmate of the writer
entered college with about twenty-five dollars. As a freshman he had a
hard struggle. In his junior year, however, he prospered and in his
last ten months of undergraduate work he cleared above his college
expenses, which were none too low, upward of $3,000.

"He made his money by advertising schemes and other publishing
ventures. A few months after graduation he married. He is now living
comfortably in Cambridge."

A son of poor parents, living in Springfield, New York, worked his way
through an academy. This only whetted his appetite for knowledge, and
he determined to advance, relying wholly on himself for success.
Accordingly, he proceeded to Schenectady, and arranged with a professor
of Union College to pay for his tuition by working. He rented a small
room, which served for study and home, the expense of his
bread-and-milk diet never exceeding fifty cents a week. After
graduation, he turned his attention to civil engineering, and, later,
to the construction of iron bridges of his own design. He procured
many valuable patents, and amassed a fortune. His life was a success,
the foundation being self-reliance and integrity.

Albert J. Beveridge, the junior United States Senator from Indiana,
entered college with no other capital than fifty dollars loaned to him
by a friend. He served as steward of a college club, and added to his
original fund of fifty dollars by taking the freshman essay prize of
twenty-five dollars. When summer came, he returned to work in the
harvest fields and broke the wheat-cutting records of the county. He
carried his books with him morning, noon and night, and studied
persistently. When he returned to college he began to be recognized as
an exceptional man. He had shaped his course and worked to it.

The president of his class at Columbia University recently earned the
money to pay for his course by selling agricultura