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Show READING OAS METERS, torn Harvard Stodenta Help Tmf Their Expenses In This Manner. One of the pleasAntest and best paying pay-ing occupations in which a good mnny college men engage is reading meters for the Boston Gas Light Oompauy. This compAuy employs about twenty-five Btn-deats Btn-deats in that department. Ths work is quite simple, each mau being given a district in which it is his duty once u month to visit every gas meter and nolo down the figures as indu-ated on the dials. Hie district are ao divided up that it takes each one five or bix daya to complete hia work. For this the student stu-dent are paid $i per day; consequently they are able to earn about $12 per month from reading meters alone. 1 Where a stndont is practicing the most ' rigid and severe economy this $3 per Wfek proves quite a welcome assistance and goes a long way toward paying for thuir simple necessities. The work is Bteadr the year ronnd, and a college man in the employ of the Boston Gas Light Compauy can of a certainty count upon an income of at least $2.."0 to $8 per wee!;. The work in considered so desirable by cuilt-giaun thnt Ihere are 1-way 1-way 011 htr.'l u imir.'.n r cf applications, t that v.hcn cno druj.s out there are plenty etit r to tjd.e his ph:ce. The yoimu; men thus employed emu from all tlm sunoiu:liiig colleges. Harvard, Har-vard, Tufts, Boston university, Institute, of Technology, aiul tiio Medical School furnishing about eint.l numbers. Ajj a rule they are of New Kwglnnd birth and come from got! families. An illustration illustra-tion of how some young meu ut them- Bel vert through college is fonnd in the cse of a nnrivo uf tho Granite Stat who is attending the Boston university. His means beiug very limited be so-cured so-cured work from the Boston One Light company, tbo proceeds from which he I used in defraying all his college ex-I ex-I pens, such as room rent, books, cloth-j cloth-j hig, etc. j Ho at first got his board free by serving serv-ing noons as a waiter in a restaurant, ami later by actiug as coimuiKsary for a boarding elnh. In this way ho obtained all his board, room rent, clothing, books aud all the other things necessary to a college course by his own individual efforts. ef-forts. Another young man pays his way through the same college with the money received from working for the gas company, added to the profits of a large newspaper route which hs Roea over every afternoon, and it is said that he earns from that source even more than from reading meters, Boston R coord. |