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Chapter 202
Plan No. 664. Booster for Boarding House Paid Board
He always managed to have fifteen or twenty boys who wanted to eat where he ate. With this following alone any boarding-house was glad to give him his board free. His board was two-thirds of his college expense, so he arranged with a boarding-house each year to bring at least twenty boarders to the house and keep up that average. This was a valuable help to the man running the boarding-house. Every business must have its booster or business-getter, so why not a college boarding-house?