The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-27
GETTING into COLLEGE
Thb Various Things Which are
Required Of the Applicants
for Admission.
Where the Almighty Dollar Has
Far Loss Power Than
Outside.
What II II Absolutely Necessary to Know
In Ordsr to Enter tho Renowned
Harvard.


In Ordsr to Enter the Renowned
Harvard.
At this season Of the year, whom many
young graduates from normal colleges.
high schools md other nstitutions'of learn
ing throughout tho country have Just re-
ceivsd their diplomas, there 10 presumably
a large class of students who are seriously
contemplating ar extension of their studies
through q college course. says the New
York Sunday News.
Many young follows, fred with the sue
cess of previous effort. are eager to spring
into the classical arena to fight for a degree
from the sheer love Of study, while a much
larger number, to whom life means A strug-
gle for bread aud butter in some chosen
profession, are disposed to regard the ques-
ton as to whether a college course will bet
ter equip them for the great contest, as the
most serious one in lite. Friends are ques-
toned AZ to the qualifications necessary
and the cost for living and tuition in a COL
lege town. Few know anything about 1t,
and the student is at a loss whore to put
in the entering wedge with a possible view
of hewing out his cherished desire.
The cost of living in such places as Cam
bridge, for instance. which is, perhaps, one
of the highest types of the university in
this country, ia much less than is generally
supposed. TIL yearly outlay of an scono-
mical young man who goes to Harvard
college to get an education has been figured
out to amount to about $370 for the first
year. This includes board, room rent.
tuition, books, stationery, laboratory fees
and washing. After the first year the Ok
penses are apt to grow q little, but the earn
ost, watchful student may, with q little
extra onre, easily keep them within the
limit of $500. OF course this estimate al
lows nothing for clothing, of which, and
bed linen also, it ia desirable the young man
should start out with a fair supply.
According to a high authority on this sup
iect, about a quarter of each college class in
the best American universities live on less
than 5000 q year, clothes included. OF
courso money is a power everywhere, aud
the almighty dollar asserts it's away even
among college men, but its power is OF far
mere restricted scope than in the outside
world. That there is no royal road to learn
ing is the gospel preached to the rich, but
sluggish student, while the poor and anbi-
tious student may take comfort from tho
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atek in the curriculum. This truth was
strikingly illustrated not SO many months
ago, by the election to the class oratorship
of one of the leading American universities,
OF a man who worked his way into and
through college, and rot only that, was of
negro blood Of unauthorized strain.
In the magnificent Memorial hall ut Har-
ward, rich and poor dine together every day.
In the social, athletic, debating and club
organization, considerations of honey have
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or the coat on his back which entities him
so sespect, but the brairy head within the
enc, and the honest toiler who IL working
his way manfully to the front in the other.
1.-THE income of a student becomes straight
ensd he need not lose courage, he can earn
money by private tutoring; those with good
voices arc paid for singing in college choirs
and in those OF the neiEhborinQ churches.
Particularly ia this true at Cambridge,
which may be called a suburb of Boston, a
city numbering somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of half a million souls. Then there
are clerical, stenogrnpbio work n type
writing, which offer additional opportuni-
ties for revenue to tho active, energetic and
earnest student.
Before leaving this part of the subject it
may be we'll to refer to the income of funds
and other sums annually available in Har-
vary un versity, as money aids to students.
Harvard college being selected for convent
ence as a typical American university.
These several amounts aggregate for the
Graduate school, Harvard college. Laur-
once Scientific school, Divinity school,
Law school and Medical school, $79, 1863. 1t
may be added also hat any student OF
limited means, and high rank, who is trans-
ferted by the advice of his teachers from
another college to Harvard, is in most cases
certain to receive aid from the Price
Greenleaf fund; Application for this must
varies from $50 to $3.50.
And, now, having given the actual sums
required for the successful prosecution of a
collegiate course OF study in the best
American institutions. it il necessary to in
qulre into the requirements for admission,
and the examinations which must be passed
before the candidate can be accepted as a
student.
For this purpose it may be as we'll to keep
along the lines of Harvard for the sake of
convenience, and also for the reason that
the standard there is exceptionally high.
No boy OF ordinary common sense expects
to step out Of an ordinary public grammar
school into the freshman class of Harvard
college. If he does he will trip up lament
ably in his calculations at the very start. A
university course 10 no baby play, and he
may as we'll know that he has got to be
fairly we'll grounded in an elementary
knowledge of Latin and Greek, English,
French and German, while a specified
knowledge OF history, algebra. plane geom-
stry and shysics are absolutely necessary,
together with advanced preparation in two
subjects chosen from the languages already
named, mathematics and physical science.
II q candidate preie. S, he oan omit either
Greek or Latin, and oithss French or Cor
man, provided he can pass an examination
in ma additional number of advanced sub
jects. Moreover, in history he has n choice
between American and Eng'is h history and
the history of Greece and Rome. In physi-
cal scienca lie can also choose between ele-
mentary physics and astronomy learned
from text books only. and experimental
physics learned in the laboratory. In ole
meItary Greek, Latin, German and French,
he is not restricted to any special authors,
but is merely required to show his ability
to translate sim pie prose passages at sight.
In English he is expected to write " com
position upon a subject taken from several
s~reciied books. most of which-if he is a
render ut all-he 10 probably familiar with.
Whatever the subject of tho composition,
the examiner will regard a ethical know
edgo of tho nook as of fur less importance
than the ability to write good English.
The student should therefore have con-
slant practice in writlnr, and should fix a
high standard of excellence. He should
epell correctly and punotuatc in~telligently.
he should make sure that every word IL the
right word to express his thought, that
every sentence is purely grammatical, and
that his ideas are grouped in logical So
quence.