Huntsville gazette., 1888-11-03
GIRLS IN COLLEGE.
what It Costs to Enter the Big institutions
of Learning.

Al
ofLearning.
At Vassar College the smallest sum
on which a girl can pay her bills, aside
from scholarship aid, is about $450.
OF this amount 800 is for tuition and
$500 for board and washing. A genius
in thrift-and Vassar sees such a
genius now and then-can buy her
books and stationery and supply her
self with the small incidentals dear to
school girls for the remaining $50
Car fare, if 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 proportion of the girl students
in Eastern schools. Six hundred dol
lars is a liberal allowance, and 500
more than luxurious. The largest
sums spent hardly rise above the min
imum which the president deemed
necessary for comfort and peace OF
mind at Cambridge.
Boston University, of the co-educa-
tiOnal schools, has no dorniitory sys-
tenn, and girl students from a dis
tance exercise no small ingenuity in
housing and feeding themselves with
out overwhelming board bills. -Four
dollars d week, when necessary, some
of them find it possible to live for, or
$148 for thirty-seven weeks in the
city. Add 500 for tuition and $50 for
books, car-fare and incidentals, and
years schooling is provided at cost
of $500.
Some of the country colleges, while
giving a substantial education, treat
the pocket-book with great leniency.
St. Lawrence University, in the north
ern part of New York, for instance,
tutors young women as well as men
for $40 year, and the townspeople
take them to their hearts and their
best guest chambers for $350 a week
Education there still costs substantial
ly what it used to at the older schools
in the pioneer days.
To work ones way through college
unaided is hard task, but is now and
then accomplished by sturdy girl.
A large-eyed brunette, not sturdy, but
fragile-lOoking, graduated from BOS-
ton University few years ago by
finding a situation as waitress in a
restaurant, wearing the white apron
during the rush hours at morning and
night, and in vacation season the day
through. To save is sometimes easier
than to earn, and have in mind one
group of four girls, two from Boston
University and two at the Harvard
Annex, who engaged two adjoining
rooms in quiet house in Boston and
boarded themselves on an average OF
+ $50 per week. Their rooms cost S.
or $.25 each. They took breakfast al
small restaurant, where oatmeal and
steak cost 20 cents. They ate an ap-
pie and slice of bread for lunch and
at night they pooled resources, spread
ing napkins on the top of trunk and
feasting 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 commissary depart
ment, and then they dined royalty for
several days. The food cost them
each 35 cents per day, and none OF
them suffered by the experiment
Their expenses for clothing were
no greater in proportion. One mem
Der of the quartette possessed single
gown, a well-worn black cashmere
Being invited to a professors reception
one evening, she remained away from
days recitations while she sat in {
cloak and petticoat cleaning ant
pressing and freshening with ribbons
her old apparel. Atnight she enjoyed
herself quite as thoroughly as the
rest of the company.-N. Y. Cor. In
diandp0liS Journal.
BONE-MEAL FOR POULTRY.