The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17
COLLEGE FOR 81 \ MONTH.
1t Costs So, However, "with Luxu-
ries," at a Southern Institution.
,rk Commercial Advertisers.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
At a small table in a W%ell-known down.
town restaurant two of the patrons were
discussing college expenses the other day.
One was "A plain, prosperous looking man
of the metropolitan type. The other was,
obviously. a SOutherner. Dressed in a
somewhat shabby suit, which had a pc
culiarly easy and friendly Set-lt mad PROB
ably done duty for a greater number OF
years than 1t is customary TO exact OF cloth
and creases In a large c1ty-he leaned back
in mis- chair, nodding his head and saying,
yes, sir or mo, SIR or take some your
self. sir" to his friend, with a look of
genial satisfaction and humor on his long,
i've Just been up to Cambridge" re-
marked the New Yorker, Ito get my boy,
Donald. settled at Harvard. This is his first
year, you know. L don't think he needed any
assistance, for / found that he had laid MS
own plans pretty carefully, knew just where
he Intended to have his room, and where TO
eat his meals-'t0 grub, l DelleVe Is the &C
copied expression. His choice rather dld
credit to his taste. / found Things not a 1T
tie changed since my time, 70, you Know.
For one thing, it seems TO cost rather more
to live like a gentleman than II used to-.
u wish YOU could see" replied the South
erner. IAN institution of learning l ran
across once in the country south OF Mason
and Dixon's line. l wonder now IL "ouIQ
strike your boy. 1 have always said that
the question of sending a son 10 colleSe'
which seems such a problem ~nnanclally 10
persons of limited means, was easy ehougn
to settle provided you were Wiling 10 leave
the beaten track and look Tor What You
wanted in the places where you least eX-
pected to find it. There are plenty OF llau-
buttons where a thorough academic train
inc can be obtained for a mere song. L
know of one. for instance, where the regu.
lar rate per month for tuition, board and
! eThi is down in North Carolina. 1t is
called Globe College, and Is situated IN a
mountain valley Of that name right IN the
heart of the Blue Ridge. You take the rail-
road UP from Salisbury and get on at Hlck-
DRY. Let us suppose your son Is ABOUT TO
matriculate at slope, me u and DHS ali that at
Hickory. and is carried straight up 10 the
head of the valley. He foots II up most OF
the sleeper grades, and TO oDLse the hIe-
man helps heave big sticks upon the tender
from wood piles that dot the way. Al the
end of the route, LenOir, he must Wake up
one of the darkles that are Sue"I % 800 ~
the station platform and induce nun 10
hitch up and drive him the ten OF Twelve
miles remaining.
s.The man comes round in about an hour
with a sorrel mule tied to a wagon having
cOnCaVe wheels. The crltter can 60 no
Doubt of that. The darby says no one OUT
he can drive her. He's very proud OF the
fact that she's dangerous, ana vo.nnteeTs
the information that a she mule Is the ohIy
kind TT for driving. and mat she VIII l4he
twenty years TO kill you, meekly bldinS ner
time and behaving tamely as a hItten until
the moment comes TO act. SO that oy the
time the boy arrives at MS future anna
mater ne has acquired no mean stock or
useful. vital experience, and Is, moreover
nicely in tune with mother nature, Whlch
iuSuyeS a good start Tor any cN0S~N
.aTbe college stands behind the only pick
et fence in the county, a square wooden
building with four enormous chInneys RS
i'm i'm a clump of oaks Old Shepshorn-his
father's name was Sheephorn-presents all
new students with a little printed card
containing his terms. 81 a month Tor tuition,
hoard and mending. s. a month Tor same
vifb Injuries. That's the wording or II.
with Injuries. which means that you Will
r@cefve a room TO yourself. and that the
how around the place VIII cut ali your WOOD
for fires and brinS II IN.
sprine to the first snowfall, with vacation
ali winter. There were six students there al
tba time happened TO make my visit, but l
We toid that the membership sometimes
ran as high as ten or twelve. The curr1cu-
is,m i did not examine too closely, but L
srmlv believe it's sound, sound. sir, espe-
rially as il includes among the courses or
every 81 student long and persistent prac-
toe at the wood pile, which IL quite as ef-
fective as rowing or football In developing
~ muscles Of the shoulders and back.
This is merely a rough outline OF the ad-
yantages.'