I waited on table all the year, and received full board; earned by clerical work, tutoring, etc., $40; borrowed $40; secured a scholarship of $70; took a prize of $25; received a gift of $35.

The expenses of the senior year, $496.64 were necessarily heavier than these of previous years.

But having secured a good position as teacher for the coming year, I was permitted to give my note for the amount I could not raise, and so was enabled to graduate without financial embarrassment.
"The total expense for the course was about $1,708; of which (counting scholarships as earnings) I earned $1,157." 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 avenue for earning money.

Tutoring, copying, newspaper work, and positions as clerks were well-occupied fields; and painters, drummers, founders, machinists, bicycle agents, and mail carriers were numbered among the twenty-five.
In a certain district in Boston there are ten thousand students.