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Show WITHIN REACH OF ALL The advantages offered to young men and women having a college degree are becoming more and more apparent. From a time when such an education was looked upon as a luxury, to be acquired by only a financially favored few, it has now reached the point in this country where it is almost a prerequisite to a successful career. It is true that a great many of the nation's na-tion's successful men are not college graduates, but few will deny that those who have not had the benefits of a higher education are put at- distinct disadvantage with the more fortunate for-tunate ones in this respect with whom they must compete. Naturally, the number desiring desir-ing to be of the latter group is ever increasing. Those whose parents are in good financial circumstances, the item of expense ex-pense is not necessarily considered consi-dered a great difficulty, but to others it's an obstruction blocking block-ing the path to a college degree. Yet this obstruction is not one that is altogether immovable, though possibly it is a burden that must be carried until the degree is obtained. I Universities and various or-j ganizations have striven to make a higher education possible possi-ble to all. Scholarships are offered, of-fered, student loan funds have been established, and it has been arranged so that students can work their was through school, paying their own expenses. Those who adopt the last mentioned men-tioned method find that the way s hard at times. The desire for learning must be sincere, the determination de-termination strong to stick until the goad is reached. However, it appears that the hardships entailed by the necessity of working one's way through school are counter balanced to some extent by the benefits received re-ceived as a result. In most instances such a one has had some experience., with the knocks in the "University of Life" fJid has acquired thereby some ability to deal with them. Irving T. Bush, head of the Bush Terminal, who has hired thousands thous-ands of college men, said in his new book, Working with the World, "I prefer to employ men who have worked their way through college. Those men who have worked their way I find, have their abilties sharp-eruid sharp-eruid by the struggle. Their feet already are firmly on the ground and they reailze their worthwhile worth-while ideals must be practicable. A recent survey of 763 universities uni-versities and colleges in the United Un-ited States wheh make some provision for working students show that 46 per cent of the men students and 23 per cent of the women students of those in- stitutions are earning part or all of their way through. These institutions enroll 84 per cent of all college students in this country. coun-try. . ' s The Educational Directory of ,1X128 lists hjghexrducAtional institutions in-stitutions with enrollments totalling to-talling 878,088 men and women students. In these colleges and I universities about half of the men and a quarter of the women are contributing to their own support by working part time; about a fifth of the men and a a tenth of the women are entirely entire-ly self-supporting. Self-help students stu-dents earn approximately $33-,-000,000 annually. -, After all, it does not matter so much how one has to get an education. It is obtaining the knowledge and then applying it that counts. The great part of it is that there are so many young Americans , who are imbued im-bued with the ambition to make their lives count and are determined deter-mined to secure all possible preparation. |