The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-08-12
REBORN lN corLEos lxpENsss.
Increase NJ tlse Cost q an Isiaeatlon--An
esltsii9haiie system.

t fe. .fNt teNtn' Hpnallei SYBtotn
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The improvement Of college instrnc.
tions in Tue l6ss quarter OF q century
has been bpll rapid and significant,
IN great ingtllptiohs like Harvard and
yale, have aimed something like The
breadth and enrichment that lelong to
Oxford and mbridge. They hayd led
the way intAe advance movement fot
q literal edleailoh, and q hundred in.
terior institutions layG followed their
example. IhJ s d great gan, for
which the Nliole cDanffy is thankful
But the lherc In college expenses,
which aFe;now nearly double what they
we're twenty. ne ye5rs $40, IS not q cor.
responding gain but serious burden,
both 70 tho colleges aud To- thoSs who
desire Observation-Disclosures sons, q
Some inNrease In tuition d to beck.
pccted as . return torthe increased
facilities furnished, but this is no
ground for con plaiat. II is legitimate
fhepresent gos for tie average student
at Harvard ana iile u 1 900 q year.
he cannot 80 tlitopg ollege respect
,ablygt d mitch lowef rate T6isis
twiee HE As tlrlt Ii Uost iniigb6s
TIE Strictly college expenses cannot
now 10 moro thin n third in excess Of
what they were then the cost OF living
Is not more than u third greater, and
the increased expenses must represent
things which are not set down in a Col-
lcgc educntiOn, bgt purely adyentitious
to 1t. They stand for athletics, for
loNting. for luxurious living, for class
dues, which are established By men who
have plenty OF money and impose their
social habits upon men who arc com.
paratively without means.
There seems to have grown up in our
leading colleges system BY which
students are 60 OBpellCd topnt out money
freely for this, that and the other thing,
which have nothing TO do with the ends
Tor which one goes to OCol'egc, The class
decree this or that, which means that
the wealthy men in the class dictate it,
and those who do not fall in with the
plans of the ruling men, and pay their
part, are severely snubbed. This is the
spirit that haS gradually crept into
many OF our best institutions, and has
run up the expenses to point where
the cost Of four years stay in college
has exceeded the means Of many who
intend the higher education for their
sons. This explains tho increased ex.
penses OF the college course, and reveals
n state Of things that ought not 10 10
encouraged.
If our institutions OF learning mean
anything, they are intended to make
men of education the leaders of thought
and society in demotmtic communities,
and the men who usually develop into
leaders arc the self.mado individuals,
who trace their origin to humble and
honest homes in tho country. The best
thing that Our colleges eau do is to in.
crease the facilities for the education of
these men. They make the bone and
sinew of tho cOuntry's greatness, and
the excellence Of our colleges has been
that alma mater could point to some of
our strongest men IN the various walks
of life, and say that they were her chill.
dren Tho large increase in college :
penses is II serious oss;OCle in tho edu-
cation Of these men.