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Show IDAHO YOUTH BEATS HIS WAY TO COLLEGE Richard B. Vjurnum Arrives at Cambridge Cam-bridge to Enter Harvard. Har-vard. By International News Service. CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Sept. 23. Richard B. Varnum, 21, who is to enter en-ter this year in the freshman class of Harvard, reached Boston from Oakland. Cal., today, having covered the trip by blind baggage ant! on engine tenders in 9 days 19 hours and 13 minutes. The trip cost him $10, more than half of which was spent to obtain his release from a jail in Sandusky, Ohio, where he spent two days. He was repeatedly thrown off trains on his way, being given a lift in only one instance, when a train crew in the west gave him a chance to work for his transportation. He was a stenographer stenogra-pher in police headquarters in Los Angeles. An-geles. His parents are wealthy ranch owners in Idaho, but he prefers "to work his way through college. |