The Portland daily press., 1892-07-02
EDUCATING A GIRL.
What it Costs at Some of the Leading
American Colleges.

SIT costs so much more to educate
girl than a boy,' a young man said in
summing up the financial advantages
which one of his sex has over girl.
Snow a fellow can get through college
on very little if he has to, but girls
schools are expensive.
If the girl goes to boarding school, in
many cases it does. A charge of 81 900
for board and tuitionis not unusual; but
fairer compromise is between the cost
of education of the same grade for the
boy and his sister.
II don't see how you can afford to have
daughter at Vassar," one parent said
to another. ''My son at Yale costs me
81, 200 year."
The implication was that college girl
must be a costlier luxury. A tabulated
colleges for women is good beginning in
disposing of such impressions. The
annual tuition fee at Cornell is 800,
and the cost of living in Ithaca is esti-
mated at from So to 81 week. A de-
post for the laboratory work is required.
The cost of text books, instruments, etc,
is placed at from $25 to $75 a
year, and from 1926 to $500 is "a fair
estimate of the yearly expenses of a
student. At Sage College, the dormitory
especially reserved for women, the cost
for 'sboard, rent of furnished room, fuel,
and lights" varies from S. to $50 week.
A student occupying alone one of the
best rooms pays $3.50 a week. Two oc-
cupying one of the less desirable rooms
pay $5 a week each.
At the University of Michigan mat
REGULATION fee of $40 is demanded from
residents of Michigan, and 1926 from
students outside of the State. In addi-
ton, an annual fee is required, which,
in the department of literature, science,
$50 for others. Laboratory expenses are
estimated as on an average of $1.30 a
week for each course, but vary with
the prudence and economy OF the stu
dent" Board and lodging can be obtain
ed in private families for from So to S.
a week, and clubs are formed in which
the cost of board is from $1.50 to $3.50 a
week. The average annual expenses of
a student, including clothing and Incl
dentals, is placed at about $50. There
are no dormitories or commons connec-
ed with the university.
At Wellesley the price of board and
tricion, including heating and lights.
is $3.50 year. OF this amount $3.50 is
for tuition. The students assist in the
domestic and clerical work of the col
lege, giving about three-quarters of an
hour to it daily. Tuition at Smith is
800, and the charge for board and furn-
ished rooms in any Of the college houses
is $3.50 year. Board can be obtained
in private families at from 81 to SO a
seE -,
dents in the laboratories pay the cost of
the materials they use and the articles
they break. At Bryn Mawr tuition is
800. Other charges are itemized as
follows Board, $3.50 year; residence
IN the college halls, exclusive of board,
is 1925, $3.50, OF, in special cases, $175,
and $3.50. The charge for board, resi-
dence, and tuition is placed at from 1915
to $500 a year. The charge for board
and residence includes all expense of
service, heating and light, except open
fire and washing. The charge for wash
ing, at a dozen pieces week, is $1S a
year. Extra washing is at so cents a
dozen.
Vassar begins its statement of expenses
with the declaration that sit is the aim
Of the colleges to avoid all extra charges
in its proper work. The charge to all
students who reside in the college is
$400. That includes tuition in all col
lege studies, board heat and lighting, the
use of furnished room, and the wash
ing of one dozen plain pieces weekly
No charge for chemicals or breakage in
the laboratory.
Because the Harvard annex has no
dormitories, the living expenses of a stu
dent are to degree within her own CON
troll Board and rooms in Cam hrid oa
ton fee for the year is 5000, and in
physics, and zoology pay labratory fee
Of SIS in each course. The fee for single
course is $75, for half course $4O.-N.
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