The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-09
GIRLS IN COLLEGE.
What It Costs to Enter the Zig Institutions
of Learning.

At Vassar College the smallest sum
on which q girl can pay her bills, aside
from scholarship aid, is about $50.
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 10
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 acreage 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 1T Cambridge
Boston University, OF the co-educa-
tional schools, has no dormitory sys-
TEN, and girl students from a dis
tance exercise no small ingenuity in
housing and feeding themselves with
! out overwhelming board bills. -Four
dollars a week, when necessary, some
of them find it possible to live for, Or
Sl4S for thirty-seven weeks in the
city. Add 800 for tuition and $50 ier
books, car-fare and incidentals, and q
years schooling is provided at a coss
Of $500.
Some of the country colleges, whila
giving u substantial education, treas
the pocket-book with great leniency.
; St. Lawrence University, in the north.
ern part of New York, for instance,
tutors young women as we'll as men
; for $40 q year, and the townspeople
take them TO their hearts and their
/ best guest chambers for $50 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 q hard task, butts now and
then accomplished by Ii sturdy girl.
A large-eyed brunette, not sturdy. bus
fragile-looking, graduated from Bos-
ton University a few years ago bg
finding situation Us waitress in =
restaurant, wearing the white apron
during the rush hours at morning. aaa
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, w!:o engaged two adjoining
rooms in 4 quiet house IN Boston and
boarded themselves on an average OF
$3.50 per week. Their rooms cost s.,
or $.25 each. They took breakfast at
a small restaurant, where oatmeal and
steak cost 20 cents. They ate al ap-
pie and slice OF bread for lunch and
at night they pooledresources, spread
ing napkins on the top OF a trunk and
feasting On bread and milk or bread
and taste of canned meats. Once g
neighbor surreptitiously inserted six
glasses Of jelly in the bureau drawer
which served as commissary depart
mcnt, 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 men,
berof the quartette possessed a single
gown, q well-worn black cashmere.
Being invited to a 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 old apparel. Alright she enjoyed
herself quite as thoroughly as the
rest of the company.-N. I. Cor. IN
dianQpol:S Journal.