New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-19
STUDENTS EXPENSES.
GETTING THROUGH COLLEGE CHEAPLY.

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| to college men and both Interesting ana profitable to
young who expecting to enter college, rs well
those who to foot their bills" Under tho
title "Studcnts' Expenses" Mr.. BOlles shows, In
collection OF letters from undergraduates and grad
yates OF his university that man who Is determined
to get education need not be possessed OF any
considerable sum OF money Perhaps some OF the
letters will make a good many men who have taken
their degrees from Harvard feel slightly warm under
the collar 1t rather abashes one TO learn that some
men have gone hungry while attending courses with
others whose college expenditures have annually run
up into tho thousands. 1t s.artles most college men
10 hear OF a student doing his own washing. IL
gives strange thrill To know Of man who
poor enough to add to his income by doing 0co
jobs for few cents, and royalty prodigal That No
gave $3.50 toward the expenses Of other students.
There are many letters 1.-THE signatures OF their
writer's not being given, OF cOurse) which show how
easily and successfully plucky man may 60 through
college with an extremely limited income IL IL
necessary to take only few examples for proof ono
writer furnishes his expense account for "a year 40
follows: Room rent, including heat and light SlOo'
board at FOxcroft Club 800 20; books and stationery
SIS; clothing and washing. $Gj tuition $780, laDorsr
tory fee So so; sundry expenses, $40. lie adds thas
he might saved $50 had he chosen TO share his
room with other student. This would have re-
duced his expenses to 1901 20. He paid 1882 so to
the college and $15 for the books. so that his hung
expenses might have been held down TO 1923 10.
one student who spent for everything in one year
1i5s 90 earned $50 by typewrtng. Another went
to Harvard with only $50 I'm his pocket. lie nae
10 friends there but able to make enough TO
live on He kept his expenses down to 1925 year.
one who entered college with BOO says: All
the rest which l have spent with The exceptoh VI
800 either earned since that time or received
from the college" still another entered with less
| than $50 in his pocket and made his way, winning
scholarships and earning money. His tuition ana
l,h fap
and stationery go for scientific apparatus, and yet
his whole expenses amounted to only $4f2. ana OUT
OF that IS to be taken the "regions and charitable
item, ST.. One young man writes that he receiver
no pecunary aid whatever from outside the college,
earning or receiving from aid funds penny that
he spent and he says, merriy: 81 easily pay all my
expenses and allow myself many luxury" one
spondent who spent I'm his freshman year $2o2
and in his sophomore year 1881 made MS money ny
" waiting on table, teaching night school, tutoring
singing and by at least dozen business schemes
Here Is another good example: The first year
thoroughly enjoyed my college life In moderate
way and yet the money actually paid out was 1857.
les, $3.50, l. g., $117 3d. During the summer
earned 500 on little things and had good time To
boot
one UNDERGRADUATE who spent in his sophomore year
$o3o tended the furnace I'm the house where lie n'eo
to offset his expenses. and In the summer 10 get re-
reshcd and strengthened Tor announcer y'' S'"u'' "'
worked at gardening
lie was n bold and selfreliant man who went m'o
Harvard with u cash capital OF s3 IS! But he sue
cceded in staying there, earning his expenses !"
various ways, and he adds: although nave oeen
very economical in some items In others nave
thought 1t wise to be somewhat LIBERAL NH Ill oo~io
and in books"
One story would best be told in part as 1t Is writ
ten: "when left Boston for Cambridge had a.
cents. l was stranger In Cambridge. Inc mist
day spent all but cents. had one great help
in this year-S25O from the Price Greenleaf AID had
been awarded to me. This. however. I could not
draw till Christmas. In order to buy books to pegin
NV work l pawned my watch and few other thingss
recelyinc for the same SIS So During my freshman
wear nv receipts were: Price Greenleaf Ald SZoo'
pawned watch ETC.. Sl5 80: typewriting, III 4o'
books sold 81 80; tutoring. Sl6O. Part OF tms
year I WAS very poor. NY washing did myself
,hout u,Idvear I was so short OF money that for
nearly two months ate but one or two meals day'
Rut during the summer he worked as porter In Q
simmer hotel where he strained himself Dadly, pus
no cleared s1Is entering his sophomore year SeI "
I'm debt Tile owed SIG when he began Ills coiieso
course1 In that year his receipts we're: Loan fund.
3d. beneficiary funds, ESQ., work for Professor James
taking sheen, brains from skulls for experiments IN
psycholosy) - 30 publishing notes, S21 % waiting
on table 2S 80: ypcwriting. go; ousiae Iops' sucn
rs posting bills copying, etc. -. 10 'o'a' @"fo no.
I'm addition to his expenses he spent Soi ."
nm .,tbl.tics theatre, unnecessary books. subscrp
Iurinc the SIMMER he cleared clerk In hotei
sl3s O, and "thus." he says, during my sophomore
va,r increased my debt 80 81. entered my junior
wear $iOl 81 in debit
In that wear his receipts Scholarship. $50;
loan fund. SO: beneficiary fund, 80; ODD !oos'
- IN. publishing placards, $1s 10; advertising
scheme. slO6 O5; tutoring, S2G' 90; Vpewnuns'
s3o 10: Professor James's work, 81 Al, waitlng ON
tohle sl6Ii: total $3.50 30. His necessary ex'
p.nditures were 1895 IA. lie goes on
.Durng the year bought typewriter, for which
I maid SlOO ! also contributed TO the expense OF
some other fellows poorer Than Sioo' for inc@
dentals spent $50 60" sc.o,l r.
Ills actual expenditure therefore was $3.50 "a. IN
the summer he cleared 800 50 working as clerk:
lie bought books and began his senior year Out VI
debt and with 81 80 on hand ., 40, ., w ,,.
In this, his fourth year he had S OG q o as o oS
ions sIs 80: copying $2i 30; tutoring. Si30 90;
advertising scheme s72 80; teaching school Sia pup
fishing notes S24 ypewriting 500 40 puplisnins
Necessary expenses that year were si6s but look
at this II spend class day at an expense OF Si ~
| gave $50 toward other students r ,s amS
added books to ny d o rIDx @ Sradnsted with
p rsGS TO-" Wv ., J., .s ~.
owed the loan fund sGso ,e so that he was out
This man IN Il way Is wonder lie says M tne
opening words Of his ,ha, e'e rsc.Xed th
ma Nimum number OF conditions Professor Briggs
told s thai w go pSHT
| from a new school ana WAS reeoh"'ehueu -
Il And vet this poor student, making his own income
+, n,.py wnys as has been shown, had bought
,Vpewriicr worth 300. also piano. increased his
library by several hundred volumes bought many
useful articles. taken part In many branches OF col
iege life and wor-social. athletic literary and re-.
class team In another sport had found openings for
work for other men. was graduated with his class;
receiving n "cum laude" with courses TO spare ana
had got an honorable mention I'm one study. He
Lad paid debt contracted before he entered college.
paid all his expenses for fOnr years. advanced money
10 Others and went away with his degree ana $4l ~
'uttoned under his coat lie says that he Old not
rv 10 make money!" only earn enough Ito get
through" and he adds MY health when ! entere0
was Very poor. left college strong I'm body, Better
han at any time for ten years"
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