The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-16
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For the most part this table includes only
the strictly college charges, such as tuition,
room rent, and board, ETC., and not such
other items as boots, clothing, furnishing
rooms, travelling expenses and incidentals,
these being matters largely determined by
personal habits and dispositions, and abil-
ity to spend. Nor do 1 know that in all
cases the cost of tuition is included, espe-
cially in the minimum expense estimate, but
snail now assume that it is.
The exceptions to these statements are
the following: The estimates for Harvard
are made from the report of Prof. Palmer,
who collected full data from the class Of 49,
and cover ali the expenses of the students
The $500 stated as tne average expense at
Williams is drawn from an estimate of
President Carter, and includes all personal
as well as strictly college expenses.
The average and minimum expense
at st. Lawrence are made up
from the carefully prepared statistics of the
class of 1888, and includes tuition and per-
sonal expenses. The average from Cornell
is from class statistics, and covers all ex-
penses. The same is true Of both the aver
age and minimum estimates for Bowdoin
and the minimum for Bates. To all the
others there should be added from 500 to
$3.50, at least, to the sums stated in the
table, to cover the items OF clothing and
other personal expenses.
The difference in the relative expensive
ness of the various colleges comes mainly
from their local situation and the scale of
living, and the standard of expense, which
has come to prevail there in consequence
Colleges situated in rural districts where
the necessaries of life, rent, food, fuel, ETC.,
are cheap, can offer an education to a young
man for much less money than can colleges
located in or Lear great cities, where all
these things cost more. The same laws of
hold in tbic in
featuring and other industries.
In the older and larger colleges which
are, and for long time have been, fire.
quented by the sons of the rich, there will
naturally come To be a more expensive
style of living than at the others, and the
college student going there will feel more
or less bound TO conform to it, although he
can but poorly afford to do SO.
1t is but fair to say, however, that
there is a spirit of true manliness
usually prevailing a college community
such that man will not ''lose caste"
among his fellows if he is obliged to be very
economical and live on much less than the
average sum. He will have the entire
respect and good will of all if he will be
manly himself about it, and not whine and
not ''swipe" the rich, as the expressive
student phrase puts it, but goes about his
work and makes the most of his opportuni-
ties 10 an honest and self-respecting way.
If a young man has 5000 to spend on
his college education, he may choose his
college where be will in this country and
take the advantages of the best. IL he has
but nalf or one-third that sum, or really
nothing at all but his own hands and
brains to work out his college education
with-a situation in which a great majority
OF the young men find themselves
it would be wise for him
to LOOK out for college
where his small resources will count for the
most AS general ruls would advise "a
young man of slender means" to attend that
college where the struggle for subsistence
would be the easiest for him, and for this
reason: The less thought and effort he is
compelled to give to the problem Of living,
of providing shelter and food and
clothing, the more time, thought and
energy ne will have to expend on
his studies and recitations, the only
business which brings him to college. He
may perhaps think that he is willing to
make the greater sacrifices and harder
struggle in order to enjoy the higher ad-
vantages of the older, and larger, and more
expensive college, only to find at last that
the struggle has been so severe as TO, in fact,
neutraliZe all these hoped fer advantages,
and make his college course neither so happy
nor so profitable as it would have bee1 in
an institution more suitable TO his slender
resources.
But the question is often asked, "Is col
lege education within the reach Of a young
man who has only his hands and his brains
to depend upolp l answer: Yes, undoubt-
edly. or curse he must have taste and
desire for study--a real hunger for learniug.
He must also have an ambition and
hoDefulness that will take him
over many obstacles and through
many Heterogeneous But the
way can be.found. 1t is a way already
trodden hard and plain by many ulwearied
feet. It leads over rugged steps, and is
sometimes stony, and is Deset with thorDs.
but it brings the traveller q large Ouilsoks,
and he breatbe5 the air OF freedom aud
finds his best life expanding IS be goes on.
The way 10 the higher education Is an up
ward way 20 light and a wider life.
There are two sources If help for those
who are endeayoriDg 10 work their own way
10 a college elueatIon. One Is provided By
the college, and the other must be fougd IA
tie stude 4 himself
IL would, imagine, Do a surprise 10