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...afford to devote their time to the public service. On the other hand, it is commonly said that the majority of Harvard students belong to wealthy families, and that they look upon politics as something beneath them. This is not true. Nineteen-twentieths of the students in Harvard must earn their own living after they leave the college. If they look askance upon politics, it is because politics does not offer them a living. He would be an ill-advised youth who would rush into the political arena in the vain hope of honorably wrestling therefrom a competence sufficient...
...Newspaper Men." The circumstance that so many men are declaring journalism a profession in which the work is hard and disagreeable and the recompense is small, is the result of so many being in journalism who are wholly unfit for their positions. Some men, the writer thinks, can earn no more as a journalist than as a mender of roads. Thus ability and adaptability are as important here as in any of the other occupations. Able men are well paid; others do not earn good pay, and very naturally cry out against the profession. It might be added, too, that...
...Armstrong spoke of the necessity of gradually withdrawing the supplies which the Government is now furnishing, and of giving instead an opportunity for the Indian to earn his daily bread on lands which he himself can own apart from the tribal lands. Gen. Armstrong concluded his address with suggestions in regard to the government's policy, and an interesting account of the Hampton Institute and its work...
...reckless company in the heart of the university. A young American, of extremely radical views, entered the university at about this time, and it was his fortune to meet in daily intercourse the most extreme socialistic and nihilistic section. B - , as his name may be called, had determined to earn his own living for the first year, and, as a result, he soon found himself in the Convictorium, - an institution in which three hundred impecunious students received free, but very scanty board. At B's table were only those who had obtained scholarships in Political Economy, and as the socialists...
...remedy of those evils. The club to which the young American belonged, was a veritable centre of political news; and many of the members were active writers for the press, and also corresponded with leading politicians. Writing and teaching was a great resource to the poor students, obliged to earn their own living. They were not mere theorists, but showed a practical earnestness by giving public lectures to workingmen on great economical and political questions. Some gave lectures once a week before the workingmen's societies, while others had classes of working-men in the same subjects. Nearly all were...