College Men Without Money

by Carl Brown Riddle

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.