Word: self-support
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...class room work with actual laboratory work. And this School aims to so develop its laboratory opportunities, that every student may have training in practice as well as theory. This field work may be either voluntary or "compensated". If "compensated" it will provide a man a good measure of self-support while in the School...
Despite unfavorable business conditions, students in the University earned last year toward their self-support $96,860.68 in jobs secured through the College Employment Office and other agencies at the University, according to the annual report of the Employment Office, made public recently...
...said that the figures compiled by the employment office would probably have to be multiplied by two to represent the total amount of money earned by Harvard students each year toward their self-support, as a large number of men naturally secure positions otherwise than through the office. It may be estimated, therefore, that not far from $150,000 was earned by Harvard students last year, or an average of about twenty-eight dollars per man for the entire student body...
...different, Porto Rico has enjoyed as great a degree of material prosperity under American domination, as Cuba, my answer would be that the descendants of Don Quixote think more highly of their honor than of their bodily comfort. For myself, I say that I prefer a thousand times self-support with all the troubles and vicissitudes which it entails to the shelter and comfort of the walls of Sing Sing. And to the Sanchos who would ridicule my typical Latin sentimentality, let the noble sentimentality of the Belgian people which saved the world from Prussian militarism be an answer...
...point on which as thinking and loyal citizens we can enthusiastically unite. It is in an attempt to secure the privilege for ourselves and future generations of college students of voting in presidential elections, without regard to the invidious question of whether or not we are entirely self-supporting, as the Massachusetts law, as it is applied at present, requires. Although most of us are inclined to concur in the reply which one of the Harvard men involved in last spring's election "frauds" is said to have made to the court's query as to his earning capacity...