Northwestern College of Law - Norwester Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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5 F- T. fhlifapfw not-caveats afrw-r rgsv, xg,-E Editorial -1- -r- HE bell rings, students straggle in filling the empty seats slowly. The instructor starts his lecture, a buzz of whispering voices disturb those near the thoughtless ones. A head, here and there, rests on an arm padded desk top affording the possessor of the head an inappro- priate rest. The class continues, as a whole, quietly, but often to diminish- ing number of students, some leaving, losing their future lecture and dis- turbing others in the present enjoyment of their own. These are but a few of the disturbing elements that every college class instructor must bear. True, Northwestern is a night college, affording the majority of its students who work during the day an opportunity to utilize their spare moments in developing, so as to better face the problems of the future. Many of the students are tired, justly tired, from hard daily work. But tired or not, these few spare moments are very precious ones. They are the much heralded knocking of opportunity for most of the students. If they straggle in, whisper in class, sleep at their posts, or absent them- selves from class, they are liable to be too late to welcome their oppor- tunities. To prove that it is opportunity that is knocking, glance at the following figures, first, finding the present value created by vesting time and money, and later, considering the future estate, which in this case, is contingent upon good hard work. The monetary expense of a college education has not been limited to the actual dollars and cents paid for tuition and books. In fact, those items are small in comparison to the value of time. Suppose, for the sake of monetizing the item of time, the average student is estimated at drawing or capable of drawing 3175.00 each month from the pay window of a corpo- ration. In return for this privilege, he would generally be required to work approximately 225 hours each month, or, in other words, would be paid at the rate of 88c an hour. Now to examine the new work, the student has signed to perform with the Northweste1'n College of Law gin order to be- come a doorman to opportunity. If he is earnest in his work, the student agrees to attend his classes regularly and to spend approximately twice the time out of classes in preparation of his work as he does in attending Mx Forty-ilzree

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. f' H X ,fi TR lf! 4, classes in reciting. The college year contains about 105 days of work, on each day of which, the student spends at least 3 hours either attending class or going to or from class. This would in the four years amount to 1260 hours. Now, besides this he is supposed to spend twice his actual time in class Q2 2X3 hours per dayj in study and preparation, which for the four years adds 2040 hours. From the above data we may complete our sum- mary: Tuition ........ ........ as 410.00 Books ........-..... .... 1 20.00 Bar Review .....,........ .,......Y....... 1 5.00 Graduation ..........,.....,....................... Y... 1 0.00 Class Time-1260 Hrs. QD 88c .......... ........ 1 ,108.80 Study Time-2040 Hrs. QD 88c ..,....i .......v 1 ,795.20 Carfare 840 QD .08 .....,.................... .... 6 7.20 Total for 4 years .........v.. ........ 55 3,526.20 So the investment in a college education is an expensive one. lt is too valuable to be considered as a side issue, a mere occupier of spare moments. Shuffling or snoring away these moments by lack of concentration wastes more than 83,500.00 in actual money. This is enough to make most stu- dents realize the value of edort but the fact remains that something of much greater value than 33,500.00 is wasted, a college education is being thrown away. It is an item which is difiicult to compute, but when com- puted proves to be of tremendous value. The following statistics were gathered by the U. S. Bureau of Education in its bulletin for the year 1917 and shows the average income over a period of ten years of the 1905 grad- uation class of the University of Texas: lst Yr. 3rd Yr. 5th Yr 8th Yr. 10th Yr Academic .................... S 639 351,022 951,605 551,985 332,108 Professional Doctors ..... -...-.... 1 ,092 1,942 2,750 3,500 4,467 Lawyers ..... -.--. 6 68 1,278 1,915 3,097 3,812 Engineers ........ ...-. 8 57 1,160 1,430 1,803 2,008 Pharmacists .......... 636 1,076 1,250 1,375 1,850 It was during this period that unskilled labor was worth 55500.00 a year. Besides the value of the dollar has decreased in 1930 to about 67? of its value in 1915 which would make the 1awyer's tenth year income ap- proximately S5,690.00, or computing the rate per hour as we did previously, we find in ten years the average per hour rate would increase from 88C to fi .. ill, ,r 1 I?01'l'j'-f0'1U'