The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12
YOUNG GIRLS IN COLLEGES.
What 1t Costs to Enter the Big Institute
and fha Auount Necesaarv for Iuxuriea

What 1t Costs to Enter the Big Institutions
and the Amount Necessary for Luxuries.
New York Mail ana Express
This 10 the time of year when ambitious girls
in different parts OF the country are counting
the costs of q college education. Fortunately
for them the scale of expenditure in the colleges
open to women has not risen high enough 70
make the most economical damsel uncomfort-
able among her richer classmates. Practically,
without exception. the standards Of dress IN the
girls colleges are simple, and, more than that,
the plucky young woman who is working her
way through four years course on short COM
mons of pocket money il often elevated into
something very like heroine.
At Vassar College the smallest sum on which
a girl can pay her bills. aside from scholarship
aid, is about $3.50. OF this amount 500 is for
tuition and $500 for board and washing.
genius in thrift-snd Vassar sees such o genius
now and then-cau buy her books aud station
cry and supply herself with the small incdentals
dear TO school girls for the remaining $50 Car
fare, IL she goes home between terms, and the
larger items of dress are not included.
Necessary expenses at Smith. Wellesley and
Byrn Mawr do not vary greatly from these
figures. Five hundred dollars would represent
the average yearly expenditure OF no small pro-
portion OF the girl students in Eastern schools
Six hundred dollars 10 q liberal allowance, aid
500 more than luxurious The largest sums
spent hardly rise above the minimum which the
president OF Harvard deemed necessary for COM
fort and PEACE OF mind at Cambridge.
Boston University, Of the co-educatioual
schools has no dormitory system, and girl stu
Ivy in housing and feeding themselves without
overweening board bills. Four dollars a week.
when necessary, some CT them find il pos
sible to live for, Sl48 for thirty weeks
10 the city. Add 500 for tuition and $50 for
books. car-fare and incidentals. and years
schooling is provided at q cost of 5000.
Some of the country colleges, while giving
substantial education, treat the pocket-book
with great leniency. ST Lawrence University,
In the northern part of New York for instance
year. and the townspeople take them to their
hearts and their best guest che mbers for S. a
week. Education there still costs substantially
what it used to at the older schools in the pi-
oneer daNs.
To work ones way through college unaided is
hard task, but now and then accomplished by
a sturdy girl. A large-eyed brunette, NOT
sturdy, but fragile-lookine, graduated from Bos-
ton University few years ago by finding a
situation as waitress in a restaurant, wearing
tho white apron during the rush hours at morn
ing and night. and 10 vacation season the day
through. To save Is sometimes easier than 10
earn, and have in mind one group OF four girls,
two from Boston University and two at the Har-
ward Annex. who engaged two adjoining
rooms in quiet house In Boston and boarded
themselves on an average OF 81 20 per week
Their rooms cost So, or 81 % each They took
breakfast at q small restaurant, where oatmeal
and steak cost 90 cents They ate an apple and
Q slice of bread for lunch and at night they
pooled resources, spreading napkins on the top
Of a trunk and foastine on bread and milk or
bread and taste OF canned meats Once a
neighbor surreptitiously inserted six glasses of
jelly in the bureau drawer which
served as commiesary department, and
then they dined royalty for DAVIS
The food cost them each 80 cents per day, and
not one of thsm suffered in health by the ex-
pertinent. Their expenses for clothing were no
greater in proportion. One member OF the
quartet Possessed single gown, a well-worn
black cashmere. Being invited to professors
reception one evening. she remained away from
days recitations while she sat in a cloak and
petticoat cleaning and pressing and freshening
with ribbons her only apparel. At night she
enjoyed herself quite ss thoroughly as the rest
Of the company.