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dents vary. Thus. boys going to Har-

dents vary. Thus. boys going to Har-
ward must be prepared to spend FOR
board. lodging, laundry. etc. from 1852
to s1.039 per year. those going to
princeton, s165 to s475 per year;
Pennsylvania. 1865 to $685.: Leland
Stanford, 5000 to $3.50. and so on. AT
Yale the average cost is SAYS, and
none of these figures includes the mil
iionaire college colonies. Tuition and
living expenses, however. do not in.
clude every necessary cost at college
Additional expenses for necessary fees
books. ETC.. run up as high as $3.50
and even $3.50 IN some cases, but are
generally under $50. At Yale and
pennsylvania they average s45. and
and Harvard states them at "s25 up.
Expenses Mt Girls COLLEGES.
The big girls colleges differ quite
as widely as those OF their brothers
IN these respects thus, at vassar
tuition IS $50 and Other living ex-
penses $3.50. while at Smith these costs
are respectively 500 and $500 up."
AT Bryn Mawr. Miss Helen TAFT and
her college mates pay SIPS to seoo
year for tuition. 500 to 5000 a wear
Tor living expenses, and $40 a year FOR
ices. books, etc. or a total OF from
s226 to $40 year for all necessary
expenses. not including clothes and
spending money. OF course. At Yale the
Presidents son. Robert, lived accord.
Ing to the Standards OF the average
student. His total necessary expenses
were from s525 up. while the next
young Roosevelt to go through Har.
ward will cost the colonel anywhere
from s537 to s1.4O0 year for neces.
sites
Near 100000 Frat Members.
Thousands of our college students
live at the houses OF the fraternities,
OF which there are now seventy-nve-
thirty-tnree composed of college boys,
seventeen of college girls, eighteen
OF medical and seven OIL law students.
There are now 1.0s3 fraternity
houses In the country where students
live generally by scheme or CO.
operation stewardship reducing their
expenses. There are $3.50 American
fraternity chapters, 1856 of which are
active
Our living fraternity members total,
this year. over $4,000 undergraduates
and alumni-a number greater than
the population of Louisville or Seattle.
Among these men and women is a
spirit of brotherhood as binding as
that of Free Masonry.
The men at the tiptop Of our gov
eminent under lie present and past
administrations all owe their political
temperaments to fraternity training
Iaft. Sherman and Knox, Roosevelt,
Fairbanks and Root: and then again
Serene Payne and Champ Clark. the
leaders Of the two great parties on
the floor OF the House,; .,illiam r.
Erye. the president pro tenn. OF the
senate. and the late Chief Justice
Fuller OF the Supreme Court. And
among others may be mentioned VIII
nam j. Bryan, Governor Hughes.
| George B. Cortelyou Joseph w. FOX
and Chauncey Depew, all master poll
ticians.
some Interesting Proxies.
The presidency or a big college is
now rated as high an office as can be
oHered TO great nina. While many
regard II as below the dignity OF
Colonel Roosevelt to enter the Senate,
al cltl2ens We're agreed that he might
become president OF harvard without
lowering himself a jot from his exalted
| position. Jefferson became president
of the University OF Virginia in his
later life.
| Two sons OF Presidents OF the United
States now hold presidencies In our
colleges-Dr. Lyon Tyler. Of William
and Mary. and Dr.. Harry A. Garfield.
of Williams. DR.. Woodrow Wilson,
4 president OF Princeton, is now FREE
/ quently spoken OF as a candidate for
the presidency OF the United States.
and President Emeritus Eliot OF ,T1ar.
ward. might now be ambassador to
| london II he had wished to accept.
camp Clark, OF Missouri. who Will
be the next Speaker If the Democrats
1 carry the House in this falls cleo
| ton, prldes himself on having been
! the youngest college president ever
| chosen In this country He was at
the head of Marshsll College when