The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-02-01
UREpUcATToNA1 1NTERR.a.Ina
The STATE Female college,

EDITORS CLARION How will the g..
Female coIlegs Be Of any great pecuni,,s
benefit to the citizens Of the State? Wn;.
be BY giving free tuition 1t is a gr.rs
question, whether general free tuition !, :
benefit in the higher forms of study. Bnt
admitting that it is, there will be comma.
lively few who will reach those bigbs,
forms, and they can be equally well n,o.
vided for at the university
But free tuition in a boarding school f.,
girls and young ladies will give very i'm.
pecuniary advantage over those school,
which charge for tuition. OF course tho
proposed college is to be almost exclusivelv
a boarding school aud can be reached Nv
those only who can pay board And tbi.
payment will have to be cash; for no one
thinks of having the State to pay these
bills, or to advance money for them No,
will a scheme of labor by which the
pupils may be expected to pay their board
be practicable or acceptable. The labor
element must be confined to technical
schools in which the labor belongs to the
course of instruction. In the proposed
college, then, all expenses, except thar for
tuition, must be borne by the student
ANY one conversant about the necessary
wants of a boarding-school miss knows that
her domestic expenses will be greater than
those Of a boy. The latter can adjust him.
self to the demands of economy in wav
that is entirely inadmissible in the case of
the former. 1t is not necessary to do more
AZ, l. ,k he Of
ton of servants, and more care in the su
pervision of personal and social protection
Take into the account the additional facts
that most parents prefer to keep their
daughters at the home schools until they
are prepared for such higher forms as can
be we'll taught only at the colleges, and
also that comparatively few parents
will be able to meet the necessary expenses,
even after tuition is given, and we can be-
gin to see how the offer of free tuition will
be pecuuiary benefit to the very few. Il
will be of no use to make the offer, when the
condition on which it is to be accepted does
not relieve the pecuniary burden. For ex,
ample, here is Mr. A, who has one or more
daughters to educate. He wishes that ed
ucation 70 be substantial and useful, such
as they will most need in the ordinary
course of woman's life He is a man in
circumstances, in pursuit of
business that requires economical care to
enable him to meet the wants of his family
His daughter can live at home and 90 to A
good school, where uutil she is fifteen or
more years old, she can be as we'll taught as
she can in the College. Her bomd
will cost almost nothing in the
family arrangement he can pay the
tuition in small installments to suit
MS business perhaps can pay good part of
It in the products of his business. If the
school is public one, he gets free tuition
also. He finds that in this way he can even
pay for tuition and educate his daughter
cheaper than he can by sending her to the
State College where tuition is free but over
balanced by other expenses, Inasmuch,
therefore, as most lrentS can give their
children only practical, not afinished edu-
;ation, and this can be done in the case of
he daughters, at the home schools, we
hall find, think, that on the whole, only
hose who have means for all expenses will
Ie able to secure the finished education given
n the higher forms ofscience and art to be
aught in the proposed school.
have assumed all along that the pro-
'osed - u is to be College as thoroughly
n IMPLY equipped for young women as
uo @,liNSislIy ~ IoI young men. Ii any
hing loweris intended by the movers of
he enterpr then there il still less need
l''.1osprop ssed school, The State can HELM
bols already in existence and Others
kind that may be brought into ex.
by allowing each pupil to draw ner
art orNshe common school fund or by paw
ng part or the whole of the tuition of
ach pupil in college classes Ia this way
he State could pay the debt 50 painfully
lit to be due to the girls of Mississippi, and
the same time foster class of schools
hat the State cannot afford to ignore. In
his way, too the payment of the debt will
g far more generally distributed-dis-
-lhuted SO that free tuition will reach two
loatsand girls instead of two hundred dis
-ibuted so that the offered help will be
valuable to those who most need It,
PRACTICAL.