The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16
Expenses al Harvard and Yale.

The division Of colleges into city colleges
and country is more marked in regard TO
the expenses Of their students than IN re-
gard TO the character Of the instruction they
give. The instruction OF Harvard profess
sor Of Greek may not differ essentially from
that given by an Amherst professor; but the
expenses of a Harvard student are double
or triple those of an Amherst student. The
extremes Of the total annual expenses OF
students at Harvard, which may be con-
sidered the representative OF city colleges,
like Yale, and tie colleges in the city Of
New York-are about $3.50 and $4,000.
But the poor, economical student, who
stints himself TO $3.50, lives in res augusta
dos1i I'd eats the cheapest food; and the
rich 8 udent, spending $4,000, lives luXuri-
ouBy AS the wealthiest New Y ERIK or Boston
families. But these amounts are extremes;
more poor students spend $3.50 or 5000 than
$3.50; the expenses of the majority of
wealthy students do not exceed $4,000, and
there are Lnly half dozen among the whole
eight hundred who succeed in consuming
$4,000. The poor student pays for tuition
$3.50, as does the rich; for room rent, with
chum, SEQ; for board at the Memorial Hall
Club, IN which are many Of the rich, as we'll
as all of the poor students, $3.50 as for 38
wecksJ.. The cost of his coal and gas is
about 800 and of his text-b books, not less
than 500 These five items amount to $412,
without including either clothes, washing,
or travelling expenses. He provides furni-
ture for his room, which Ga chum bearing
half the expense) costs about $50; but
room furnished at the beginning of the
Freshman year requires no special refurnish-
ing afterward. The total annual expenses,
therefore, of Harvard student, of the most
rigorous economy, cannot be less than $3.50,
and probably will amount to $500.
The expenses of wealthy Harvard stu
dent may be thus estimated: For tuition,
$50; for room rent, which is $3.50 higher
than at any other college, $500, but a room
renting for this sum is one of the best of
college rooms in America: for Joard, at So
week, 1904; for q tending theaters, con-
certs, suppers, $j00,-the largest item in
the expenses of many Hazard man; for
society fees and subscriptions, $500 (the
initiation fee TO one club, the Porcelain, is
5000; for private servant, "a luxury which
about half the students epjOy,-$50; for
horses, $3.50; for Coal and gas, $75; and
for books, 500. This total amount of $4,000
includes, however the cost of neithtr
clothes, washing, travelling expenses, nor
furniture. The cost of furnishing a college
room elegantly is not less than $500, and
may amount to $1,000. The annual ex
dent at Harvard amount to $4,000. A few
wealthy students spend more, many less (;
the limit on the one side being $4,000 or
$4,000, aud on the other $1,000 or $500.
What is true of expenses at Harvard ap-
plies, Hnutdtis DlutdRdG, and without the
mutdndG beng considerable, to Yale and
other large city colleges. Most necessary
expenses, however, are less at Yale than at
Harvard. The extremes of room-rent are
$25 and $40, and tuition is $40. The
poor student cen, therefore, pass a year at
Yale for from $50 to 500 less than at Har-
ward. To the wealthy student, moreover,
New Haven does not present as favorable
opportunities for spending money in attend.
ing places of amusement as Boston; but the
societies at Yale are more expensive thar
the Harvard societies. To the wealthy stu
dent, therefore, and the student of average
means, the expenses of four years at Yale
do not differ essentially from the expenses
off four years at Harvard. Charles r.
ThiciHg; ScriJRer for NOpenlber