| Show r 99 Unique Institution 4 Whose Students P Pay Their Expenses by Manual anUal I P t iA a 4 Doing N NyS yS ij Fourt Labor Four r t r j 1 aY a 4 q l n Hours a Day Students earning their board tuition and other expenses by working on the college farm farmr and anda a at the r Same Time Learn am at Least One Oner r J r lr t tS t S xi Useful Trade Rev Dr Brown founder and president of the college ex ea- ea why students r x 1 should be taught to dal t f i work with hands as well as heads r fr t tr ww i ii rw r- w i 1 r 1 t 6 1 r eT 4 i in n p c r 4 e y x ix A new building at Brown College in Arkansas being erected entirely t y y r 41 I Fa by student bricklayers carpenters plumbers etc L u u OHM ELWARD BROWN who began be- be began be began DOHN JOlIN gan his lifes life's work in the lime kilns of Arkansas and continued it as Salvation Army Army exhorter exhorter and finally as F president of the International Federa Federa- Federation Federation Federation tion of Christian Workers Workers a sec non nonsectarian nonsectarian nonsectarian n organization of e evangelists is s the thea a originator and president of a college collegeS S that makes lack of money its first requirement re requirement re- re requirement in considering a n student It must be financially impossible for forthe forthe forthe the student to attend school anywhere else In other words if a student has the least income or money whereby he could pay evena even evena 8 part of his expenses heis lie he heis lieis is denied admission There are too many young people who haven't a cent they are the ones that we are ar trying to reach says say President Brown The John E Brow Brown College is now in its fifth fifth year and has an enrollment of students who pay pay nothing in money for their education Five thousand ap ap ap have been turned turned away away either disqualified or because fac facilities were lacking All AU students work for the college four hours each day day- d day y This amount of labor pays pas a students student's board board tuition and other othet expenses According to fo the plan upon upon which the college is operated a a large proportion of the work work done done the in-the f fur four hours four ur hours a day is industrial training fitting the student when when h he graduates to ton ton- con contribute or tribute a trained hand as liS well is as s a trained mind to his community's community welfare The college located in the little town of S Siloam loam Springs Arkansas is really the result of the presidents president's early denial denial of educational advantages Working from sunup to sundown in the lime quare quarries ries and earning 75 cents a day which which had to be turned into the family cx- cx ex exchequer chequer to help support nine nin individuals is very apt to leave such a lasting im impression im- im impression impression that it it will will- later findan find an outlet The story of of the founding of the th only work pay work pay college in America is the typical account of the man that started with nothing but through per per- perseverance per severance se obtained an education that eventually made it possible for him to give others the benefit of of the training he had obtained by such painful effort Dr Brown Drown spent the early years of his life lite at Center Point Iowa He is isnow Isnow isnow now probably the best known evangelist to in the South and West lie was the tho youngest college president in America when he headed Scarritt College founded by the family of that name for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of giving br broader ader education to the young people of the Kill hill l iII country of Missouri His whole experience has given him what he interprets as ns asa a deft deft- definite definite nite nits call to help the struggling youth of the nation ills His first move to fulfill his lifes life's life dream was to contribute his ot-n ot o home farmand farm farmand and real estate valued at I r f k 41 jl Mj N Kl Department X 1 where girl irl stu- stu students stu tu dents learn dress dress- dressmaking making making and nd basket r weaving while assist in the money making e on n which the col col- col lege leee r relies lies largely for its support establishment of the th college colleg bearing his name where the penniless student can can- cannot can cannot not only take the ordinary course in tie arts in economics economic in history and science science but obtain a complete mastery of some somo trade or trades Of course a technical and literary education is to be had in many in-many many places Millions lions of dollars have been contributed to such luch institutions Dr Brown con considers siders a combination of thes these two phases of education with manual train training ins as essential to the needs of this age In Ingoing going going- goinga n step further and making milking such advantages possible for the th young oung pe ped J pIe who are without money he lie feels hat he is not simply founding another school but reaching a class h hitherto neglected lIe He salvages the down and outer To begin with he says and to be blunt t my conviction is that in the funda funda- fundamental mental things our whole conception of education is wrong Secretary of Labor A w L 1 t tr r tl C CW W 1 v Davis announces that 90 per cent of the young oung people in o our our r universities and colleges are training for white whit collar jobs and there isa is a place for tor only 10 per cent of these In th the main our edu- edu edu work seems to be b to educate our young life away from from- from rather from rather rather than back constructive to-constructive to constructive toil toll As As a result many of them become drifters and failures It c can n be noted parenthetically that not long ago another Brown als also a doctor of philosophy George P M Drown Brown now a San Francisco dishwasher said in speaking peaking of trios of those who did the tho work that hp he h was doing A l large rge num- num number number num number ber of us are arc college and university graduates You will find in our ranks men who have graduated in in law medi and professions other other professions For those who are called to the pro pro- professions let them them have whatever honor the professions bestow but all after th the foundation yes stone stone yes es the very bt M 4 t i y Mon Hon of the rests lic lie tic rests rests back hack in Inthe inthe the the th minds and hearts of those who ho are a part of the aristocracy of hard bard hardS S hb labor r In the professions many men are not making a living in the trades there ismore is ismore ismore the more often a dearth in the the- matter m matter of efficient help and too often the lender leader le leadership der ship is wr wrong often wrong often ng-often often God anti-God anti anti- antichurch anti church unpatriotic and in a most radio radi radi- radi radical cal tense un-American un That I Is III Dr Browns Brown's reason for mak mak- making making making ing it compulsory for his students to work at some som trade And he seems to tobe tobe tobe be successful in handling the financial end which often defeats the most ideal ideal- ideal ideal- idealistic idealistic idealistic hopes of those who would begin new eras He lie contributed contributed and continues to con contribute tribute his own awn income Also in his about when he does evangelis evangelis- evan evangelistic evangelistic elis- elis tic work worle he ho interests those who are willing to contribute to such an educational cause cause In this way he has has tapped many new sources of revenue Beyond the productive labor of the student Dr Brown says it formerly cost us us to carry a student through this school for one me year year- year The cost for each student has been reduced until to today to- to today today day take care of c re of a scholarship lohn Ir In Ina 1 tins filS means coat InBI seen IS s a contribution to his upkeep and education tion teen sufficiently large that in cash will complete the actual cost of his board and tuition Not t to my knowledge is there another place where 00 goes anything like as far farin n buying education ns as here The operation of the college is han han- handled ban ban- bandied handled died on a cost cast efficiency system that would be the delight of any modern business engineer The meals served average in cost only nine cents They are not cafeteria meals either but of the home-cooked home country type that make a city man long to get back back to the the farm They are the sort of meals t that students working with muscle as well as brain need need and demand Activity at the Brown College starts at in the morning and continues to at night Breakfast is at and classes start at 7 for those who work in the th aft afternoon These clasSes classes are arc duplicated for those those who work in the morning There are two shifts of students working four hours a day thus giving the the college industries the hour regular hour eight e schedule Overtime work by students when permitted means extra money for them Dr Brown says says While our students ari a re being trained in is books and books and we set the highest possible standards intellectually a ally ally- they ally they are arc also being trained in handwork handwork so that when they graduate I they will graduate as trained farmers stock raisers linotype operators press press- pressmen pressmen men automobile mechanics el electricians plumbers carpenters bricklayers cooks tailors and homemakers And it is my hope that pouring out into these various I trades they will win carry with them the highest ideals of Christian citizen citizen- citizenship citizenship I ship It is natural that a man who has madea made madeI I a success as an interdenominational J evangelist should insist that the Bible Bibi be beI I taught in his college But Dr Browns Brown's insistence on Bible training is more more than thana a mere gesture He believes the y youth uth of day to-day must get back to the principles principle 4 taught in the Bible Dible if they are to suc- suc succeed succeed suc succeed Hence th there re arc are daily chapel ex exercises ex- ex exercises I of a religious character r I IOn On the acre GOO college farm there are some sixty head bead of Jersey cattle cattle 1 eighteen horses and mules threshing t binder and tractors There gardens where the th food for the J is grown and taken to the kitchens 3 re the girl st students dents learn the knack co cooking king canning and butter butter making they prepare the meals 0 There is a coll college ge publishing house several linotypes two big presses with all that goes a modern printing There Ther is a blacksmith shop s plumbing shop carpenter carpenter shop t electric shop a brush making de do- do basket making sewing ving rooms t AIO ISO ine cne cOllege tuns runs a a large public pubic department store I a lumber yard ard and a summer h hotel tel Two general magazines and two two news news- newspapers newspapers papers ra ate aro e published regularly by the college TIle The The wear girls wear the coth clothes s that they mike make as they learn tile the the processes of cut cut- cutting cut cutting ting ling fitting and sewing Both sexes are arc found in the printing and allied trades Smoking is forbidden for both men and women students ts The student body body is is an interesting one The minimum age age is eighteen with The no maximum limits The tendency is isto older students those who have tome come cometo cometo to appreciate the th need and value of hand head training That the graduates succeed is evidenced by this typical from one I am making consider considerably bly over 50 week here I believe in tithing and to send 5 a week to the home hometown hometown church and the college Iam I am prospering This letteris letter is froma from a young young man who the printing trade while working hours four hours a day to pay for his edu edu- du tion Another innovation is the prohibition the prohibition f in collegiate athletics This This is no 10 at a school where cach student manual labor four hours hours a da day of o various kinds are enc ur ged for recreational recreation l tennis purposes purposes football and horseback rid As a sort of soviet system of camaraderie and good will there day once each month when students stop allwork all work at lunch and the afternoon and evening to hav hay hav a good time the kitchen faculty members the necessary kitchen and farm To carry out the all things all things things-in spirit no student has more than another there are no fra fra- and and perfect perfect social locial equality pre Do you have as gooda good a time 83 a stu of other colleges a 8 haired bob o- o od d was asked Do we she repeated in the em hatic way vay youth YO has of meeting th the ap- ap ap ap unnecessary question We do Fetter Better if anything Ill I'll that you wont won't finda find a kicker in he place For students who can pay some tome tuition Brown University was was opened this at the Iho nearby town of ol Sulphur I Arkansas In true western st style le bought the whole town which was the summer resort type The hew new in in- in already has students and 1 ful full university university curriculum To help this new school financially orne of the university buildings are during the th summer months as a 8 without summer resort without pUt puts ism I |
