etc., I earned $37; also earned full board waiting upon table; received
$70 for a scholarship; $55 from gifts; borrowed $70, which squared my
accounts for the year, excepting $40 due on tuition. The expenses for
the year, including, of course, the full value of board, room, and
tuition, were $478.76.

"During the following summer I earned $40. Throughout the senior year
I retained the same room, under the same conditions as the previous
year. I waited on table all the year, and received full board; earned
by clerical work, tutoring, etc., $40; borrowed $40; secured a
scholarship of $70; took a prize of $25; received a gift of $35. The
expenses of the senior year, $496.64 were necessarily heavier than
these of previous years. But having secured a good position as teacher
for the coming year, I was permitted to give my note for the amount I
could not raise, and so was enabled to graduate without financial
embarrassment.

"The total expense for the course was about $1,708; of which (counting
scholarships as earnings) I earned $1,157."

Twenty-five of the young men graduated at Yale not long ago paid their
way entirely throughout their courses. It seemed as if they left
untried no avenue for earning money. Tutoring, copying, newspaper
work, and positions as clerks were well-occupied fields; and painters,
drummers, founders, machinists, bicycle agents, and mail carriers were
numbered among the twenty-five.

In a certain district in Boston there are ten thousand students. Many
of them come from the country and from factory towns. A large number
come from the farms of the West. Many of these students are paying for
their education by money earned by their own hands. It is said that
unearned money does not enrich. The money that a student earns for his
own education does enrich his life. It is true gold.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding
that a college education is out of the question.

If Henry Wilson, working early and late on a farm with scarcely any
opportunities to go to school, bound out until he was twenty-one for
only a yoke of oxen and six sheep, could manage to read a thousand good
books before his time had expired; if the slave Frederick Douglass, on
a plantation where it was almost a crime to teach a slave to read,
could manage from scraps of paper, posters on barns, and old almanacs,
to learn the alphabet and lift himself to eminence; if the poor deaf
boy K