14 FIFTY YEARS A.AIOXG THE BEES 



for filling the names in 88 diplomas at the two com- 

 mencements. I taught a singing school ; I worked in 

 Prof. Jackson's garden at seven-and-a-half cents an hour; 

 raised a crop of potatoes ; clerked at a town election ; 

 peddled maps : rang one of the college bells ; and, as it 

 was optional with the students whether they taught or 

 studied during the third term senior, I got $100.00 for 

 teaching during that term in an academy at Delhi, X. Y. 

 Neither were my studies slighted during my course, 

 Avhich was shown by my taking the highest honor attain- 

 able, Phi Beta Kappa, which, however, was equally taken 

 by a number of my class. 



I secured my diplon:a, allowing me to write A. B. 

 after my name, and left college with fifty dollars more in 

 my pocket than when I arrived there. It was not, how- 

 ever, so much what I e2rned as what I didn't spend that 

 helped me through. I kept a strict cash account, and if 

 I paid three cents postage on a letter or one cent for a 

 steel pen or two blocks of m.atches, it was carefully en- 

 tered, and probably a good many cents were saved be- 

 cause I knew if I spent them I must put it down in black 

 ink. 



CHE.^.P BOARD-BILLS. 



The item that gave me the greatest chance for econ- 

 omy was my board-bill. I boarded myself all the time 

 I was in college. ^ly board cost me thirty-five cents a 

 week or less most of the time. The use of wheat helped 

 to keep down the bill. A bushel of w^hole wdieat thor- 

 oughly boiled will do a lot of filling up. The last ten 

 weeks, with less horror of debt before me. I became ex- 

 travagant, and my board cost me sixty-six and a half 

 cents a week. 



In the long run, however, I paid dear enough for 

 my board, for its quality, together with a lack of exercise, 

 so afifected my health that I never fully recovered from 

 it. Strange to say, I was so ignorant that I did not know 

 exercise was essential to health. That was before the 

 day of athletics in college. 



