COLLEGE MEN WITHOUT MONEY EDITED BY C. B. RIDDLE NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1914 By THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY Published June, 1914

CONTENTS

PART I

PAGE

A Mother’s Desire Realized—Ames 1

“Magna Cum Laude”—Aspinall 5

Task Worth While—Clark 8

Making Odd Hours Pay—Day 12

The College Store—Dodge 15

Brother Helps Brother—Draper 19

The College Inspiration—Dyer 24

Overcoming Hardships—Frazier 29

The Dignity of Service—Fox 35

A Happy Misfortune—French 42

Finding One’s Place—Gernert 47

“The Tarheel”—Gunter 49

No Work Too Hard—Halfaker 53

Cultivating Side Lines—Heller 60

A Smiling Self-Reliance—Hughes 65

A Mother’s Influence—Kendall 67

Riches More of a Handicap than Poverty—Lawrence 75

The Will and the Way—McCuskey 79

Keep Good Company—McLeod 82

The Democracy of a College—Moon 83

Obeying the Call—Morgan 88

Determination and Steadfastness Wins—Mosley 91

Making Oneself Useful—Nelson 96

A Faith “Divinely Simple”—Nicks 112

One Who Knows It Can Be Done 115

Difficulty and Willingness Are Enemies—Rowland 120

Faithful in Little Things—Saunders 126

From Janitor to College President—Staley 134

Starting with Five Dollars 138

From Good to Better—Swain 142

A Task with a Moral—Traynor 146

From the University of Denver Bulletin 151

The Fraternity of Workers—Van Ruschen 157

How the Physical Side Helped—Wade 162

The Way Always Open—Walters 167

The Victory that Overcometh the World—Watkins 171

Opportunities Make us Known—Wentzel 177

Making Play out of Work—Wiggins 185

Nothing Succeeds Like Success—Wright 189

Work a Stimulus to Ambition 194

The University as a Goal 200

PART II

Working to Make Himself a More Useful Man—Bassford 205

Many Lanes of Usefulness—Boswell 208

Another Example of the Willing Heart—Daft 212

Difficulties Prepare for Real Work—Frye 215

Pluck Rather than Luck—Henry 221

Poverty Is Not His Master—Johnson 225

Defeat Does Not Mean Failure—Johnson 228

“Start Right”—Johnson 230

The Real Question—Jorgenson 233

Willingness to Work a Great Asset—Moore 239

Keep on Trying—Omahart 242

Optimism is an Asset—Oxley 245

The Desire for Something Better—Patrick 249

Determination versus Poverty—Porter 252

The Real Needs of the World—Rankin 255

The One Who Succeeds is the One Who Tries—Scurr 257

The Help Yourself Club—Sellars 261

The How and The Why—Shinn 263

Making Use of Every Opportunity—Smith 266

Education Worth the Price—West 273

Work no Class Barrier—Wright 280

PART III

How to Work One’s Way through College—Brown 283

Does a College Education Pay? 286

PREFACE

Having entered the preparatory schools with 94 cents, and college with less, and knowing that the greater number of those who control the affairs of the nation and who strive to make the country better, are men and women who did likewise, the thought for this book entered my mind. The first aim was to collect matter from students only, but this was changed. The main part of the book contains articles from college and university graduates. The last part of the book contains contributions from students now in college, and shows how the actual thing of working one’s way through college or university is being done. A few of the articles which go to make this volume were used as a special series in the Raleigh Times, Raleigh, North Carolina, and requests from various parts of the country were received by the compiler for the production of the series.

The object of the compiler is not to praise the merits of those who have succeeded, but to point a moral to young men and women who desire an education and have small means. A prominent editor says: “The history of college education among English speaking people is now about one thousand years old. It began with the University of Oxford in England, which has been in existence a decade of centuries. It has spread to many lands, but in all lands it has been about the same to the poor boy. It can be truly said that he has never seen an age or a country or a college where he had an easy time in getting his diploma. It has always been a fearful struggle for him, and it will doubtless continue to be. But it is also true that the brightest pages, the very brightest, in all our long educational history are those that record the triumphs of the poor boy. And his triumphs are written throughout that great period. He has demonstrated a thousand times over that ‘where there is a will there is a way,’ that ‘poverty does not chain one to the soil.’”

So, my efforts have been to help rather than to praise, to make the past a great light for the future, and to pave the way for more college men not blessed with wealth. If this volume serves to aid one in these directions I shall be glad.

To Professor W. P. Lawrence, Professor E. E. Randolph, Professor R. A. Campbell and President W. A. Harper, of the Elon College Faculty, the compiler is greatly indebted for their faithful service in the preparation of this work; also to many others who offered suggestions and advice.

C. B. Riddle. Elon College, N. C. March 16, 1914.