Show GETTING THROUGH COLLEGE it is wonderful how little a college education may cost nowadays considering the generous scholarships sh I 1 pa chea cheap p bo board ard low room re rent D t and ample opportunities of self help it may truthfully be said that there is 18 no DO on one so poor in money as to be de barred barred the privilege and advantage of a college course if he has pluck and health A large number of the students stud enle are engaged in work independent of the college those who wait on table a favorite employment get their board free at present a junior and a sophomore are running an eating house and paying a large share of their expenses out oui of the proceeds several keep stores selling athletic goods and furnishings and running troy laundry agencies A student from armenia deals in oriental goods one enterprising man buys and sells secondhand second hand furniture undoubtedly making a lordly profit at the bands of uD unsophisticated sophisticated freshmen members of the college quartette and the editors of the college papers make more or less but nothing magnificent tutoring brings fair remuneration era tion A young man work working ing his way through college is generally undressed ill III fed and ill housed sometimes however one meets a type that wears fashionable clothes this magnificent character plays poker whenever he can find anyone 0 ne to play with and also makes large but ae judicious bets on the ball games he is the parasite of college life occasional sums are made in odd ways A student last year made himself a railway ticket agent for a week before vacation and cleared a small fortune A man from an adjoining country village brought in a quantity of maple sugar from his fa fathers therIs farm and drove a thriving trade as long as his stock lasted before a semiannual semi annual examination a great deal of more or less hasty reviewing is necessary and to save time as well as labor students sometimes gather in companies of twenty or thereabouts and pay a man to read the trot while they follow in the greek or latin text each man pays the reader five cents an hour and tries to believe that he is ready to meet the dreaded exam quite a number of men find employment altogether outside the college several sing in church choirs A or make a handsome sum giving banjo badjo lessons in the neighboring towns during the spring term a few get work on farm jv Y sun |