total amount spent during four yearswith amount of scholarship included (time includes three vacations) $2,700

cash on hand at beginning $500

value of scholarship 240 740

total $740

balance $1,960

investment (later realized) 250

total earned during college course. $2,210

from this statement it is clear that i spent much more money than was necessary. five hundred dollars could have been saved out of this amount if i had cut out a few of the luxuries, but as the money was earned, i felt free to spend it.

my conclusions and advice are that any boy can go through college if he is prepared to enter and is 188 willing to work. the working college boy is the happiest because he is always busy and doesn’t have time to get blue. he can enjoy his pleasures without thinking that he will some day have to pay the money back. his activities are so diversified that they do not become monotonous, and making money becomes to him as much sport as playing baseball. he can go broke for three weeks and sell a few books to raise money for a midnight lunch and have more fun out of it than another boy with a barrel of money and a new automobile. all it takes for a boy to go through college without money is nerve to try it, grit to stick to it, and a happy attitude toward life to enjoy it.

hartsville, s. c.