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r "1 r ' w ' - .. PORTLAND, OREGON,' SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1905 V.I .-f Vi V'' The Cost of Highpr Education as It Ranges Today TJOR study or pleasure? To master . il a profession or to have a good X - timet What is the purpose of the young men, numbered by the thousands, who ' have started their college life this fall? Have they begun a career of hard work or of good times? Of hard work, un doubtedly, the majority have; of good; times a small minority. Whether college life is to be of work or pleasure, a factor cf paramount importance is its cost. For how little money and for how much, can a young man go through a term at a college or university ? How can the poor student, with little except ambition, make his way? . How can he. earn his liv ing? By what means of economy can he make both ends meet? This is the question with hundreds and, college professors 'say, they are the hundreds who make out the best. : With the others, whose success may be rduged' '- by their extravagance how - much money ' r6 V . ft' I jr "r .i ' ' 'i rr:- VTJr 7 v.. 7 7 :H,V',7' I, tiff ..A Mi- 'J- H V7 I v Aft X m.? I, I i4 1 4i t'-VZ x - 1! i i f 4 Art u i if - r,-i v 1 , SI K VI i!7 . IS 1 6 r 4 umMf ': voMtly curioa expensive books ctc.y, he, may h4ye to;occupy a hall bedroom at $1. or $liJ5 a week. ; Instead of dining at Bwell hotels or cluba on $5 dinners, he may get along on $3 a week, earn ing his board at that. Instead of belonging to a swell "frat," he may be compelled to get all the social recreation possible from a college club, with gymnasium privileges, at $10 a year. But this etudent, declare college men, is the one who usually makes good. Professor C. L. Kitchel, who has charge of the Bureau of Self Ilelp at Yale, says: "Students from frugal holies and of scanty means are a moet desirable element in the uni versity community. Unspoiled by luxury and , earnest in purpose, they give character and tons to the whole place. "In spito of the great handicaps to which they are subject in having to expend so much time and strength on extraneous work, they get what they come for. They carry off far more than their share of scholastic honors. "In a recent class fifteen out of the nine teen highest appointments at graduation fell to men who had received tuition scholarships; in another class, eighteen out of thirty-three. In ii win, i m mi mm t i i' ifiinw ml LJL i""1"""""! 1 m - "' , i '" T i r ' I ' t '-f ' f .1, 8 11' iiui 4 h'h-ir fr C3uli frrl r I :.-T.-;..v K. - v.-. - II I vf.r..'lt , i in rrr - -Ti lii II IT Hi ' i JI1 it il r 1 H I "i l 1 iiiimi ni,iinMi-Mj;,.'wya V , f--r 1 fr 1 can actually be spentT through college? .You may get through the '. What sort of apartments' can be se- term for $200, perhaps less, and you may cured? What luxuries? W ha: kind of earn every cent and save money besides. If suppers? What varieties of wines?, What you have money to. squander, and the in make of automobile? What fraternities? dulgent father gives unstinted rolls of yel These are questions of momentous interest lowbacks, you may spend $20,000 or so to the sons of $Iessrs. Multi-Rich, who, quite easily. College expenditures average college professors say, are among the mi- from $200 to $JOOO a year. "Every dol nority of students and who generally go lar above $1200," -declared Professor through with the lowest average, t . Palmer; of Harvard,, "is a dollar of dan Are you a poor boy, making your way . ger." , . , ; : .. . I ' HE H rich art cun to college," ranje ' iu itandard and it I Jot at the are to a community, tba college will not bm an 1 a - axe toe idle ncn. Jtut juca- . Hoc cx efficirncy rather than reaJtL It it poasib! for the faculty toiou examinations that Attrartir tilaoa for' ciiner ciasa." "tcrsity. It was at Yale aereral yeara ago that . a rich mint eon was reported to hare apent 1 2 3,000 during ono college term. At the tame ' tmiversity "during the tame year, there M doubt, many ttudenti were going along en a pittance.' '. ' Few things rtry to much in cott aa coIVge Efe.. 2 atnrally. college life Tariea in ita found t of pleaanreu jhe student who earns hia. way through co Urge by waiticg on the dining room -table cannot attend theater parties of engage ." in "joy rides or other extraTtgancea. Inrtead of a tamptwomly furnuWd ait of erery class something like this occurs. "What is more, the fact thst a man is work ing his own way docs not debar him from racial recognition and iuccess." tje i Although college authorities usniHy' advise , a young man to count on 400 for his .first year's 1 expenses, it is generally conceded that any ener , getic young man can earn-his expenses as be . goes along.. Mr. Toor. Han's ton can cut down, tit expencs to a minimum.4 Fees in 'many stats nnivewitW sre nominal, snd in the bigger col-! leges scholarships are givn -which 'more than' pay the eotts of tuition. -Indeeo, JJarvard atid . ' Thja" was declarslion made some time ago - fcy. President' Arthur. T. Hidley, of Yale Uni- 7 rooms, f tted with great leather chairs, ottomans, , ' Columbia are often called "poor men's collcret' because of the . number.' of ' self-supporting stu dents. "' .How cheaply, then, can a young man get through a college bourse! One case is typical. A young man went through one of the biggest of New England col leges. During the first year he received from his parents $136.52, paying $319.7tf for expenses; the second year, from parents, $127.75; expenses $320.63; third year, from parents, $67.75; ex penses, $340.50; fourth year, nothing from pa rents; expenses, $380. And besides earning the difference between the amount received from ' his parents and his expenses, ha had $100 to his credit at the end of the course. During the summer he repaid his parents by work on, their farm. S3 ! When he was secretary of Harvard, the lata Frank Bolles, telling of how students .earned their way, spoke of a student who came to col- ... lege $116 in debt. During his first year he earned. $346 and expended $381.31; the second' : year, earned $345.58 and expended $361.54; third year, earned $689.53 and expended $395.14, and fourth year, earned $1021.21, spending, $462.80. He was a diligent, ambitious, energetio young man. And diligence, energy and ambition 'will carry any man through college. He per . formed whatever tasks were offered, one of his , specialties being to secure brains from sheeps' ; . skulls for Professor William James, to be used . in experiments. He also engaged in publishing books and college pamphlets: . MANY LIVE ON $400 His expenses ranged from $380 to $460 a ' term. Many students get through on $400.' To " live comfortably about $600 is required each year. With an income of $1200 a young "chap- pie" cqn sport some and with $3000. live quite . luxuriously. Do many young men earn their way, and how! Illuminating information has been given by -Professor Kitchel, of the Self-Help Department ' of Yale. Of the entire number of students,' an average of 200 earn their entire expenses, while 200 more are partially dependent upon their efforts. The Department of Self-Help awards c!, tuition scholarships to needy and worthy young men, and a student of the first rank who de pends upon himself may get a scholarship equiv , s alent to $155, the entire annual charge for tuition. " ' '. ' ' ' A less needy and less brilliant student" may ,tt one amounting 1o $115, while those still lest Impendent receive scholarships equal to $73. This bureau aims to find work for men tnd find men for work. From the bureau, cards, eir- ' culars, postals and letters are sent out, and it is generally understood thst from this in titutioa csn be obtained men of the highest character and ability for almost any kind of work requir ing two tohrffi hours a day. ' 4 Clerical work must be done in many dppfrt tnentt of the college; this it given to ftuier.tj. " .Many wsit on theablcs. and aa average num ber of 150 earn tbeir meals by this ervtc. Or student may condor t a small laundry tusir.. n. Many, indeed, go out and earn money ca th :r own initiative, without the asi'.t- cf t' s ' tpOXTIXCED OK INSU'E TAZT.)
