The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-05
LESS THAN FOR EOYS.
Figures on the Cost of n College. Educa
tiOn for Women.

Figures on the Cost of n College. Educa-
tion for Women.
Elizabeth 81. Howe. president of the
Boston branch of the association of
collegiate alumnR, takes up the subject
of the cost of the college education of
girls, with the purpose OF refuting the
argument that it cost more TO educate
girl than boy. She quotes the remark
of one parent to another: Il don't see
how you can afford TO have a daughter
at Vassar; why my son at Yale costs me
$1,000 year" The implication that
college girl must be a still costlier lux
ury is not verified by the facts as taken
by the different catalogues of wOmen's
colleges. The yearly expenses at the
different colleges are given in Mrs
Howe's article. Cornell is the first on
the list. where the fixed charges viii
fall somewhere between s325 and $500.
Wellesley's are $3.50. which includes
light and heat; $50 Of this is for tuition.
At Smith the tuition is 800 and the
charge for board and furnished
room in any of the college houses
is $3.50 a year. Board can be obtained
in private families from 81 to 50 a week;
washing extra, so cents dozen. The
students in the laboratories pay the
cost of the materials they use and the
articles they break. At Bryn Mawr the
college yearly expenses, including
washing of one dozen pieces a week, is
from 1910 to $500 a year. according to
the kind of room occupied One hun
dred dollars of this is for tuition. Vas
sar makes q charge of s400 for all who
reside in the college. This includes
tuition in all college studies. board. the
use of furnished room, lighting. Eeat
and the washing of one dozen pieces.
No charge is made for materials or for
breallage in the laboratories. At the
Harvard annex there are no nodormitories
nor commons connected with the inSti-
tuition; board and rooms cost from SO TO
s14 week. The tuition fee is 5000 and
laboratory fee of 8 is charged.
Miss Howe says that as to college ex-
penses outside these fixed charges no
hard and fast estimate is possible. 1t is
largely what the student makes It.
college life works no miracle, and the
girl who has been extravagant or care
less for eighteen years is likely to mar
age her expenditures for the next four
in much the same fashion" Miss Howe
finds difference between the rich boy
at college and the rich girl, and quotes
the remark of a professor at Vassar:
1--WE have no better students than the
very poor girls-except the very rich
ones" The reason is plain. When a
young woman who can afford to crafty
every pleasure deliberately turns away
from them for four years of hard work,
she has an earnestness of purpose that
soon shows the natural result. Miss
Howe observes that the college girl as
rule dresses plainly, ''serges and
fannels are the customary wear, and
long before the eve of comforta BILE
dressing set in elsewhere, college girls
were in full enjoyment of a simple and
rational costume" One hundred dol
lars year, Miss Howe thinks, will COW
er the incidental expenses Many girls
spend less; one girl on record spent on
ly thirty-seven dollars from the fall to
the easter vacation. She was going
through college on a scholarship. She
had hosts of friends and many on the
distinctions of college life were hers,
which develops the fact that whatever
the social position of the young woman
in the outside world, when she enters
college her position among the students
depends entirely upon her own worth.
''If she is wealthy her wealth viii Sc
cure her the chance to indulge her per-
sonal fancies within rather narrow lin
its, and the chance to be generous and
little else. She viii simply have the
place which she can win for herself by
virtue of her own qualities of mind and
character. 1t is a wholesome expert
ence, and one which too seldom comes
into a woman's life"