Pushing to the Front

The number of girls in the University of Michigan who are paying their own way is large. "Most of them," says Dr. Eliza M. Mosher, woman's dean of…

"It is my opinion," said Miss Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke College, "that, if a girl with average intelligence and energy wishes a…

The system of compulsory domestic service obtaining now at Mount Holyoke--whereby, in return for thirty, or at the most, fifty minutes a day of light…

At city colleges, like the last two mentioned, board and lodging cost more than in the country; and in general it is more difficult for a girl to pay…

A number of girls in Barnard are, however, paying for their clothes, books, car fares, etc., by doing what work they can find. Tutoring in Barnard is…

"Why, yes, I know a girl who has a sign on the door of her room,--'Dresses pressed,'--and she earns a good deal of money, too. Of course, there are…

Typewriting, tutoring, assistance rendered in library or laboratory or office, furnish help to many a girl who wishes to help herself, in nearly…

In many colleges there is opportunity for a girl with taste and cunning fingers to act as a dressmaker, repairer, and general refurnisher to students…

Former President Tucker of Dartmouth says: "The student who works his way may do it with ease and profit; or he may be seriously handicapped both…

The opportunities of to-day are tenfold what they were half a century ago. Former President Schurman of Cornell says of his early life: "At the age…

"My father got me a place in the nearest town,--Summerside,--a village of about one thousand inhabitants. For my first year's work I was to receive…

"From the time I began working in the store until to-day, I have always supported myself, and during all the years of my boyhood I never received a…

"I did not know how I was going to do this, except that it must be by my own efforts. I had saved about eighty dollars from my store-keeping, and…

"That was the turning-point in my life. In one side was the certainty of one hundred and twenty dollars a year, and the prospect of promotion as fast…

"With my capital of eighty dollars, I began to attend the village high school, to get my preparation for college. I had only one year to do it in. My…

"The scholarship I had won amounted to only sixty dollars a year. It seems little enough, but I can say now, after nearly thirty years, that the…

One of Mr. Schurman's fellow-students in Acadia says that he was remarkable chiefly for taking every prize to which he was eligible. In his senior…

During the three years in the University of London, Mr. Schurman became deeply interested in the study of philosophy, and decided that he had found…

"In my junior year I engaged a nice furnished room at $60 per year, which I agreed to pay for by work about the house. By clerical work, etc., I…

"During the following summer I earned $40. Throughout the senior year I retained the same room, under the same conditions as the previous year. I…

Twenty-five of the young men graduated at Yale not long ago paid their way entirely throughout their courses. It seemed as if they left untried no…

In a certain district in Boston there are ten thousand students. Many of them come from the country and from factory towns. A large number come…

If Henry Wilson, working early and late on a farm with scarcely any opportunities to go to school, bound out until he was twenty-one for only a…

"If a man empties his purse into his head," says Franklin, "no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best…

Never before was the opportunity of the educated man so great as to-day. Never before was there such a demand for the trained man, _the man who can…

On all sides we see men with small minds, but who are well educated, pushing ahead of those who have greater capabilities, but who are only half…

All education which does not elevate, refine, and ennoble its recipient is a curse instead of a blessing. A liberal education only renders a rascal…

Every year, thousands of young men and young women graduate full of ambition and hope, full of expectancy, go out from the schools, the colleges, and…

There is nothing else, perhaps, which the graduate needs to be cautioned against more than the money madness which has seized the American people,…

Wealth with us multiplies a man's power so tremendously that everything gravitates toward it. A man's genius, art, what he stands for, is measured…

The dollar stands out so strongly in all the undertakings of life that the ideal is often lowered or lost, the artistic suffers, the soul's wings are…

Never before was such pressure brought to bear on the trained youth to sell his brains, to coin his ability into dollars, to prostitute his education…

The song of the money-siren to-day is so persistent, so entrancing, so overwhelming that it often drowns the still small voice which bids one…

Tens of thousands of young people just out of school and college stand tiptoe on the threshold of active life, with high ideals and glorious visions,…

The most unfortunate day in a youth's career is that one on which his ideals begin to grow dim and his high standards begin to drop; that day on…

The influences that will surround you when you leave college or your special training school will be as potent to drag you down as those that cause…

The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with…

Great advantages bring great responsibilities. You can not divorce them. A liberal education greatly increases a man's obligations. There is…

The world has a right to expect that the graduate, having once faced the light and felt its power, will not turn his back on it; that he will not…

If you have received a message which carries freedom for people enslaved by ignorance and bigotry, you have no right to suppress it. Your education…

What shall we think of a man who has been endowed with godlike gifts, who has had the inestimable advantage of a liberal education, who has ability…

The world has a right to expect better results from the work of the educated man; something finer, of a higher grade, and better quality, than from…

It is a disgrace for a man with a liberal education to botch his work, demoralize his ideals, discredit his teachers, dishonor the institution…

"Keep your eye on the model, don't watch your hands," is the injunction of a great master as he walks up and down among his pupils, criticizing their…

The graduate ought to be able to rise above these things so that he can use all his brain power and energy and fling the weight of his entire being…

After the withdrawal of a play that has been only a short time on the stage, we often read this comment, "An artistic success, but a financial…

The mere possession of a diploma will only hold you up to ridicule, will only make you more conspicuous as a failure, if you cannot bring your…

The great question which confronts you in the practical world is "What can you do with what you know?" Can you transmute your knowledge into power?…

The college man _ought_ to be a superb figure anywhere. The consciousness of being well educated should put one at ease in any society. The knowledge…

In other words, a liberal education makes a man think a little more of himself, feel a little surer of himself, have more faith in himself, because…

The most precious thing of all, however, if you have made the most of your chance, is the uplift, encouragement, inspiration, which you have absorbed…

The graduate should regard his education as a sacred trust. He should look upon it as a power to be used, not alone for his advancement, or for his…

The way to get the most out of ourselves, or out of life, is not to try to _sell_ ourselves for the highest possible price but to _give_ ourselves,…

Whether you make money or lose it, never sell your divine heritage, your good name, for a mess of pottage. Whatever you do, be larger than your…

So conduct yourself that your life shall need no eulogy in words. Let it be its own eulogy, let your success tell to the world the story of a noble…

Never before did an opportunity to render such great service to mankind confront the educated youth as confronts you to-day. WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH IT?

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and…

There is hardly a poet, artist, philosopher, or man of science mentioned in the history of the human intellect, whose genius was not opposed by…

The world has certainly gained much through the old lady's failure to tell James how he could employ his time to better advantage!

Civilization will mark its highest tide when every man has chosen his proper work. No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place.…