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The Cost of Highpr
Education as It Ranges
Today
TJOR study or pleasure? To master .
il a profession or to have a good
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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 '
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': 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
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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
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