Earning a Scholarship Through Magazine Sales

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 22, 1909

Earning a Scholarship Through Magazine Sales

You can earn a scholarship in any of our schools, and meet your vacation expenses, by the sale of our ten-cent magazines. Some of our most successful agents could easily earn two yearly scholarships during the twelve weeks.

Presidents U. S. Grant and James A. Garfield earned their college scholarships by selling the printed page from door to door. And among other notable recruits in the great army of canvassers might be mentioned George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte, Daniel Webster, the great Bismarck, the poets Coleridge and Longfellow, President Hayes, Madame de Stael, James G. Blaine, Mark Twain, and scores of other self-made men and women.

The work of selling our magazines is pleasant, and does not generally arouse prejudice.

Again, the returns from these sales are immediate, thus enabling one to meet current expenses. Neither is there any period of anxious waiting for a future time of delivery. Finally, the agent needs to go over the ground but once.

The profits on the sale of two thousand to twenty-five hundred copies of Life and Health, Liberty, the Protestant Magazine, or the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor ($140 to $175) will be amply sufficient to pay for a year's scholarship in any of our colleges or academies. The sale of a few hundred extra magazines will furnish the economical student with sufficient profits to defray the summer's expenses. Failing to sell enough copies to earn a full year's scholarship, even an inexperienced agent should be able to dispose of a sufficient quantity to secure a half-year's schooling.

Our Plan, Briefly Expressed.

The Publishing Department of the General Conference has submitted to all of our publishing houses and schools a uniform plan for the earning of scholarships through periodical sales. Having accepted the same, the Review and Herald Publishing Association now makes the following liberal propositions to worthy students who desire to engage in this work:—

1. The student may sell Life and Health, Liberty, the Protestant Magazine, or the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor, according to choice.

2. Those desiring to earn a scholarship shall make full and satisfactory arrangements with the State tract society for doing so, and shall uniformly order all magazines through the tract society office.

3. Cash should accompany all orders from students who, for a valid reason, can not order through the State tract society. In extreme cases the publishers may ship the first consignment of magazines without pay. In such cases, however, the magazines, once sold, must be paid for in full before a second consignment is sent. Once formed, the cash habit is the easiest and best for buyer and publisher alike.

4. The State tract society shall control the assignment of territory to the students, thus protecting the regular periodical agents already in the field.

5. The ten-cent magazines shall be furnished to the student at the regular rates until he has sold enough copies for a year's or half-year's scholarship, as follows: 5 to 20 copies, 5 cents each; 25 to 400 copies, 4 cents each; 500 to 800 copies, 3½ cents; 1,000 or more, 3 cents.

6. As soon as the publishing house is informed by any State tract society or school that a student has sold the required number of magazines for a year's or half-year's scholarship, and that said student has deposited the money required to apply on said scholarship, the publishing house will remit to the business manager of the school the student will attend, the difference between the amount paid for magazines at the regular rates and three cents a copy. This will make the final cost of the magazines, to these students, only three cents a copy, regardless of the number ordered at any one time, during the effort.

7. In case any student who has earned a scholarship is unable for any good reason to attend school, his scholarship may be transferred to any one whom the State tract society officers may recommend, and whom the school authorities can accept as a student.

8. In view of the fact that our schools will be greatly advantaged by these cash-down scholarships, and also by the addition of such a desirable class of seriously minded students, a number of our educational institutions propose to offer to these student canvassers a discount of ten per cent from their regular scholarship charges. Wherever carried out, this plan will, of course, materially reduce the number of magazines required to be sold. The Publishing Department of the General Conference will shortly announce a list of the schools that will make this discount.

Lay Your Plans Now!

As soon as you have decided which school you will attend next year, and which of the four magazines mentioned you desire to sell, write us, and we will give your case our personal attention, and place your name upon our list of special agents. Send fifteen cents in stamps for a sample copy of the four magazines, Life and Health, Liberty, the Protestant Magazine, and the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor. Also ask for our circular, “How to Earn a Scholarship.” Address Periodical Department, Review and Herald Publishing Assn., Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.