The Young Folks Book Of Ideals PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...himself that he entered preparatory school with 94 cents and college with less, and worked his way through successfully. He quotes one young man who took a teacher's examination and did a six months' term of country school, closing it seven days after he was sixteen years old. Bishop Hughes, of the Methodist Episcopal church, made considerable money when a young man by securing an agency for a photograph gallery in a large city not very far distant from the college he was attending. One young fellow, a little beyond high school age, it is true, worked his way through the freshman year at college by preaching in a local church and doing chores for a family with whom he earned his board. On Sunday morning, after he had done his chores, dressed in blue overalls, he would hitch their horse to the carriage for them to go to church. Then he would put on his best clothes and go and get into the pulpit and preach to them. A college professor testifies as to the value of working for the Chautauqua as a means of earning money. He worked in this capacity until, after five summers, he was promoted to be advance diplomat for the bureau. Calvin Dill Wilson has written a practical book entitled " Working One's Way Through College." The writer has gone through it carefully to see what forms of effort were mentioned which were within the reach of a student of high school age. Some of those which he has discovered are as follows: Distributing literature Washing windows Tending furnaces Shoveling snow Shifting scenes Acting as bellboy Acting as councilor in a summer camp Lettering Reading meters Operating a stereopticon lantern Reporting for the local press Acting as agent for sporting goods Selling medals and pins for high schools...