Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
COLLEGE EDUCATION.
MISSOURI

SOIIEGE EDUCATION.
AuAtion Little Dearer Than Fifty Year,
ARo-Aore Money Spent on Living.
College authorities agree in saving
that the cost of tuition has increa cod
very little in the last fifty or seventy
hve years. 1t is the improved stvle Of
living that makes a students exnenses
much greater. Although more books
are required now than were need half
century ago, books are SO much
cheaper now than they were then that
tne increase In this item is hardly per-
r. ceptible.
Inc outside expenses, including board
ana lodging, as we'll as incidentals, are
much less in country than in city col
1eges The country colleges are those
situated in small towns, of which
Princeton is the most prominent ex-
ample In the east, and city colleges are
.of course those located in large cities,
such as Columbia, Harvard and Yale.
Inc extremes of the total annual ex-
penses OF student at Harvard, Column
sbia or Yale, which are good examples
of the city college, are put at $3.50 for
the lowest and 81, 900 for the highest.
The student who is limited to $3.50 has
to deprive himself of almost all luxu-
rles and amusements and to eat the
cheapest food, while the 81 900 student
lives very much in the style of a wealthy
New York or Boston family. But both
OF these estimates are extremes. The
poor student spends usually from $3.50
to 5000 in the scholastic year, and the
wealthy one from g., 500 to IS, 900. There
are said to be some, but only a few,
students at Harvard whose annual OK
penses exceed a 900 year.
The necessary expenses of a COM
Paratlvely poor student in one of the
city" colleges are itemized as follows
Tor the scholastic year of thirty-eight
weeks: Tuition, $3.50; room rent with
chum), $22; table board, $3.50; coal
and gas, $50; text books, s25, and al
though these items amount to only
$4l1 in the aggregate, the cost of wash
ing, clothing, travelling expenses and
lncidentals brings the total to at least
$500 a year. For the wealthy young
man the tuition is the same, $3.50; room
rent $500; table board. 50 a week, 1904;
subscriptions to college enterprises,
club memberships, theater tickets, sup
pers. $500. This last tie m is usually
the heaviest in the city college mans
account A private servant, a horse,
fuel, books, clothes and incidentals
rapidly run the total up to IS 900 with
out any great exertion on the students
part
This does not apply, of course, to the
free city colleges, and at Yale the ex-
penses are from $50 to 800 year less
These are the expensive colleges of
the country, and yet to call them rich
mems colleges would be doing them
an injustice, for the aid they give
every year to poor and deserving
students is very great. This aid is
given in the form of prizes. scholar
ships, and presents, each donation
ranging between $40 and 1928 in va lue
Harvard alone gave the poor students
last year more than sss, 900. 1t must
be said for all the American colleges.
cheap or dear, city or country. that
deserving and studious men are seldom
compelled to leave them for want of
funds.
In the county colleges the expenses,
both necessary and unnecessary, are
much lower. Tuition is cheaper. and so is
boegd. room rent and fuel. There are
no thaa1aSs are other expensive places
of amusement, and the extras that are
so large an item in the city become
very small.
The expenses at Princeton and Am
herst, both large country colleges,
range between $3.50 and $1,000 year.
At the lowest estimate room rent with
q chum is s1s; tuition, 800; meals at a
club at IS week, STA; books, SIS; fuel
and lights, s1s; subscriptions, SIS; ex-
tras, $50; total, $500; to which must be
added clothes, washing and furniture
But as the expenses are less in the
country colleges, so is the pecuniary
aid generally less, although large
amounts are expended in this way in
country as well as in city. The stu
dent in a country college has a chance
to earn little money for himself. He
may ge: a membership. worth from $50
to 5000 year, or he may have an OPP
portunitv to teach a country school.
These chances seldom present them
selves in the cities, where there are
many applicants for every vacancy.
Besides the expenses that have been
mentioned there are certain graduating
expenses ranging between ss5 and
$3.50, this item being smallest in west.
.ern colleges Dispatch.