Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-08-04
LESS THAN FOR BOYS.
Figures on the Cost of a College Educa;
tion for Women.

Figures on the Cost of "a College Educa-
ton for Women.
Elizabeth ii. Howe, president of the
Boston branch of the association OF
collegiate alumn@, takes up the subject
of the cost of the college education of
girls, with the purpose of refutng the
argument that 1t cost more to educate
girl than boy She quotes the remark
of one parent to another: 81 don't see
how you can afford to have a daughter
ut Vassar; why my son at Yale costs me
ST. 900 year" The implication that
college girl must be still costlier lux
ury is not verified by the facts rs taken
by the different catalogues of womens
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 will
fall somewhere between 1925 and $500.
Wellesley's are $3.50, which includes
light and heat $3.50 of this is for tuition.
At Smith the tuition is 500 and the
charge for board and furnished
room in any of the college houses
is $3.50 year. Board can be obtained
in private families from 81 to 50 a week;
washing extra, 80 cents a 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 week, is
from 1915 to $500 year, according to
the kind of room occupied. One hum
dred dollars of this is for tuition. Vas
sar makes charge of $500 for all who
reside in the college. This includes
tuition in all college studies, board, the
use of a furnished room, lighting, heat
and the washing of one dozen pieces.
No charge is made for materials or for
breakagc in the laboratories, At the
Harvard annex there are no dormitories
nor commons connected with the insti-
tuition; board and rooms cost from 50 to
S14 week. The tuition fee is 5000 and
laboratory fee of s. 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 man.
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 professor at Vassar:
"We have no better students than the
very poor girls-eXcept the very rich
ones" The reason is plain. When n
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
a rule dresses plainly, "serges and
flannels are the customary wear, and
long before the eve of comfortable
dressing set in elsewhere, college girls
were in full enjoyment of simple and
rational costume" One hundred doll
lars year, Miss Howe thinks, will COW
err 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 of 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 will Sc
cure her the chance to indulge her per-
sonal fancies within rather narrow linn
its, and the chance to be generous and
little else. She will 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 womans life"