Higher Education Down on the Farm
STUDY ON THE FARM: Veteran John Scovil snathces a few
moments to go over his college notes while the mechanical
milker is at work.
By DAVID TAYLOR MARKE <
(^P) Newsfeatures Writer
HAMILTON, N. Y. — “Study
while you work” is the motto of
John Scovil, an undergraduate at
Colgate University.
Back from the Army after serv
ice as a private in the field artil
lery, Scovil took over a 350-acre
farm near Smyrna, N. Y.
Scovil, however, is ambitious to
break into political administration,
a field demanding a good college
background. He talked things over
with officials at Colgate Univers
ity, nine miles away, and made ar
rangements to commute to class
es three days a week to earn 15
hours of credit each semester.
Money was an item, but the State
awarded him a Veteran’s Scholar
ship to cover tuition.
The big problem was when to
study. Scovil's farm is one of I1'®
Chenango Valley's leading dai*-v
farms with 80 head of purevre<*
Holsteins. Depending on season
he has to milk from 45 to 60 of
these cows twice daily with three
automatic milkers. This means he
has to be in the barn every morn
ing by 5 a.m. and again every af
afternoon by 4:30. About 150 acres
of the farm are in oats, h»y »nd
corn and Scovil has lo put in
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about 65 hours a week on farm
work.
' Capping these difficulties was
i the fact that Scovil was out of
1
j school 11 years since he left Co
lumbia University in his sopoh
more year as a result of the death
of his father, a Binghampton pas
tor.
“It isn’t easy to get down to
studying again after 11 years,”
Scovil says. “Language has been
especially hard.”
It soon became evident that
time would be a big factor, even if
Scovil was willing to get along
on six hours of sleep a night. He
therefore figured out a system of
study while he worked.
He transfers to 4 x 6 cards the
salient points of his lesson and
carries the cards with him every
where during the day. Once the
milking machines are at work,
morning and evening. Scovil finds
a few minutes to study his cards.
He also snatches minutes while
machinery is being repaired, at
lunch time and during all kinds of
odd moments.
Scovil’s system pays off. He
made four “A’s and a “C” during
the semester just closed. As a re
sult he has been awarded an Aus
ten Colgate Scholarship, the high- 1
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CHUCKLES
Mrs. Davis—I heard you talking
ot yourself while you were taking
your bath, John. That's a bad hab
it.
Mr. Davis—I wasn’t talking to
myself; I was talking to the soap.
I slipped on it.
The GI wrote home.
Dear Dad:
Gue$$ what I need mo$t. Send
Some Soon. BeSt wi$he$.
Your Son Sammy.
Dear Sammy:
Nothing NOvel or new here.j
NO one left. Write us aNOther
letter aNOn. NOw we must say
goodbye.
Dad.
—
A girl admires the tone of a
bachelor’s voice when there’s a
ring in it.
Corporal Smith—Can I ask you
for a dollar until tomorrow?
Sergeant Jones—You can ask
me until the day after tomorrow,
and still not get it!
est scholastic prize Colgate under
classmen can acquire. In addition
he is on the Dean’s Honor List. His
C last semester was in Intermedi
ate French. His difficulty was re
membering some of the basic
French learned before he was 20.
The mature veteran's present
record is much better than that he
made as a freshman at Columbia.
"I didn't have any particular goal
then," he cays. "Moreover, I was
young and unattached and this
fact showed up in the score."
Now he is married and gives a
lot of credit to his wife’s encour
agement.
He expects to complete work for
his degree by the spring of 1947.
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