He had shaped his course and worked to it.
The president of his class at Columbia University recently earned the money to pay for his course by selling agricultural implements.

One of his classmates, by the savings of two years' work as a farm laborer, and money earned by tutoring, writing, and copying done after study hours, not only paid his way through college, but helped to support his aged parents.

He believed that he could afford a college training and he got it.
At Chicago University many hundreds of plucky young men are working their way.

The ways of earning money are various, depending upon the opportunities for work, and the student's ability and adaptability.

To be a correspondent of city daily papers is the most coveted occupation, but only a few can obtain such positions.