The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-11-26

An inquisitiye woman has been as
certaining and comparing the average
cost Of Il students year at many differ
ent universities and colleges, with this
result: The cost of an education at
Harvard is estimated from 1872 (''low"(
TO 81, 900 every liberalD year; at
Princeton it is from $3ll to $G45; at
Cornell from $3.50 to $500. The
Lawrence University of Kansas put he
yearly expenses rs low rs $40. Ex-
penses at Nassar are given as $400 :,
year; ut Wellesley $3.50; ut Noun
Holyoke 5000. As rule expenses IN
the Western colleges are lower than in
the Eastern. These figures necessarily
leave ont of consideration all class.
society and club taxes and certain prr-
sona Y ,anscs. TIE registrar of Cor
nell gave The average sum spent hy
students there rs from $500 10 $4OJ
but sail ''men do get alon[ with less
than 5000 for al expenses" lie csti-
mated that abont 10 per cent OF the
students there were wholly or partially
self-supporting.
At the institutions farther west the
proportion of those who support them
Mich. a very large number of students
are self-Supnorting.
The Vassar College witness said:
There are young women here happy
and comfortable with only 800 year
for general expenses" adding that
some young women increased their i'll
come by tutoring and literary work,
but that no student could do work
enough while in college to pay her eX-
pcn>eS. At Obcrlin it is quite other
wise. for the authorities there say that
more than half the students are wholly
or in part self-supp0rting. The re-
ported earnings of POP during 1890
amounted to $40. 202. the largest sum
earned by any one student being $460.
These earnings were partly the result
of vacation work, and in part were
made IN various occupations during
term time. As ut Cornell, the @ainfM
occupations at Obcrln are work Of Il
clerical nature for professors and the
university work on the farm, acting as
walters. caring for furnaces, running
boarding ciubs, Photographic work
tutoring. etc.
The education given ut Oberlin may
not he of the highest quality, but the
cost is low enough. The whole ex-
pcnSe for the freshman year of 167
students, exclusive Of travel ng and
vacation expenses WAS less than 5000
each. One hundred and seven spent
from $200 o S25D; 100 from $3.50 to
$500; Gl from $3.50 to $500; - from
$500 to 81 -; and only 81 more than
$4O0. These figures inclde all per
sonal as well as college expenses; and
there has been no great advance of
late years. The class expenses in
crease somewhat in the last wears of
the iur>e. The senior class of 1880
spent in the freshman year $3.50. in the
sophomore year $3.50 in The Junior
year $2J3. Tables furnished by tho
senior classes at O5Grlin for the last
thirteen years, giving their expenses
for the whole course, show no iu-
crease in the amount during that
period. This is hardly true OF any
Eastern college.
Persons who study at Obcrlin must
be economical, but they need not imi-
tate the reciuse habits of the poet Per-
cival. who was also geologist. A
contemporary describing his three col
lege rooms SAYS: Ills library and
minerals were in one. his stu-ly in an
other. his bedroom in another. His
bed was simply Il cot with mattress
above; there were no sheets. and
block of wood placed under the mat
tress served for pillow. There were
two woolen blankets on the bed very
dirty. Places at the foot showed that
lie had lain down with his shoes on,
and it was evident he had often slept
untidy, and probably never swept.
There were perhaps two inches of roll
ing lint on the floor. There was
beaten path from his bed To his stove.
10 bis writing-taLle. to his library. and
to the door,