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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 27, 1910

How Two Beginners Earned Their Scholarships

By A. J. S. B.

Case No. 1

Miss Clara Ogden, a student in Union College during the past four years, thus describes her experience in earning a year's scholarship in that school:—

“Last spring I was forced to face this situation that confronted me: Should I return the coming fall to Union College, I would have to earn the money in some way to pay my expenses. I went to work with the magazines. My first order was for 300 Life and Health, 200 Temperance Instructor, and 100 of the Signs Monthly. In the month of June, at Wichita, Kan., I disposed of these in about eight days. I next ordered 500 copies of the July Life and Health, and sold them in seven days. I then ordered 800 copies of the August number, and disposed of them in ten days. This left me 600 magazines more to sell in order to earn the scholarship, which required a sale of 2,500 magazines. These 600 remaining copies I sold in less than a week. I canvassed in offices and also from house to house. In the offices my sales generally averaged from 75 to 150 copies a day. From house to house my average was 50 to 60 copies a day. I am now back at Union College, and praise the Lord for his blessing during my summer vacation. Next summer I expect to do a similar work, only on a larger scale. I hope to work the greater part of the entire vacation. Before this I had never canvassed at all. I found the work very pleasant. Many spoke in the highest terms of Life and Health. It was customary to hear people say that it was the best health journal they had ever seen.”

Case No. 2

Miss Jakobsen succeeded in earning a scholarship in our Danish-Norwegian Seminary by selling our new magazine, Lys over Landet, in Minneapolis, Minn., during the past summer. Accompanying a rush order for 50 copies of this magazine, she says:—

“Those whom we meet on the streets always ask for the new number. They all praise it highly, and are anxious to get it.”

Miss Jakobsen is the first one to report having earned a scholarship through the sale of one of our three excellent magazines published at College View, Neb. We trust that many other students attending our Danish-Norwegian Seminary may be as successful in earning a year's schooling in this way.

A. J. S. B.