The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-16
HOW AVERAGE
 YALE STUDENT
 SPENDS MONEY
PROF. BILL BAILEY FIGURES THE AMOUNT EACH YEAR OF
 COURSE AT $1,172.
Division Into Necessities and Luxuries Shows Interesting Range of
 Expenditure.

Expenditure.
 | New Haven, Dec. 16-Certain indi- viduals here have given much time and attention in an effort to learn just how and for what the money of the average Yale man is expended. Of course there are many students who do not have to figure on the division Of the money they receive from home, but others have to do a little figuring and economizing if certain pleasures are to be enjoyed, and for the third class of men it would be +only a waste of time to even count on a. visit to the I theat tre, a game of billiards or a. so- cial function. This is the class which works it's way through college. Professor William B. Bailey, of Yale, sociolOgiSt and economist, has made an interesting study Of the expendit- ures of money made by Yale men, reporter the results of his investi- gations. He finds that the Yale man, like the students of other universities, is a good spender.
 Professor Bailey said that the prob lem of classification was a hard one, but that he had adopted a list as the best for the purpose. having in it four subdivisions, namely: Necessities, sta- tionery, pleasure and tobacco and in toxicants.
 Under the first Of these heads, ne [ Room rent, board, clothing, laundry, physician and medicine, travelling, furniture and sundries.
 Under the second head, stationery, he included books, paper and ink, per iodicals and stamps.
 In the item of pleasure there were included the theatre. pool and bil- lizards, flowers, music, society dues, chance, athletics, Suppers, charity and slpndries.
 The subject of tobacco and intoxi-
 
 Fine Field For Study.
 Professor Bailey said that the finest field for study of such questions to be fourrd in this country is in the American college or university, where thousa-n dS of young men and women are gathered together He consulted the budgets of three thousand stu dents, and his figures for each of the four classdficaIttons strike what he considers proper average.
 Class statistics, taken accurately, show that the senior class which was graduated last June from Yale spent This looked like a big total, yet a study of the records of the senior classes for fourteen years back reveals the fact that on an average the class of 1912 spent no more in the four years of the college course than did the class of 1899 or 1900.
 The last graduating class spent an average of $1, OPS in it's freshman year, $1,141 in it's sopromore year and $1.- 1s6 in its junior year, striking an average yearly expenditure of $1. .11S. age $1,O97 during it's college career and the class of 1910 beat all records by averaging $1, ,194 a. year.
 Going back to the time when the cost of living was not so high as it is now, figures show that in the late nineties and in 1900 and 1901 the aver age expenditure of the Yale men dur ing the junior and senior years was $1,116
 The maximum amount spent by a student of the class of 1912 was $6, 000 in junior and freshman years, and the minimum expenditure for a year at college was s1O0 by a. student in the freshman year. In the junior year the minimum was $200 and the senior college life made the minimum $260.
 Averages for 500 Students.
 Accounts examined of five hundred students in the two upper classes at Yale recently showed that under the head of necessities each man spent sS09 and for stationery the average for one year was $52. The men spent $20S for pleasure. and the figures, carefully compiled, showed that the average expenditure for tobacco and intoxicants during the year was $50.
 This is a. higher average for the men who use tobacco and liquor than ap- pears at first, for usually less than half of the class smoke or use intox- 1cants. Last years graduating class1 at Yale numbered 307 men In all de- partments, but only 1s0 used tobacco and only 157 took liquor in any form. The average of $50 really was for about 175 men.
 Each of these five hundred students who spent $203 for pleasure divided the money on an average as follows: Theatre, $2S; pool and billiards, ss; social functions $35; flowers, $10; nnu- sic, $4; society dues, $50; chance, polite word for gambling, $16; ath1et- ics $23; suppers, $32; sundries; $14.
 Professor Bailey finds that the wo- man graduate student at Yale spends $471 for necessities, $38 for stationery and $19 for pleasure, making a total of about $52S, about half that spent by the men. He compiled recently figures ob tafned from students in Vas sar and Smith colleges In Vassar the average for a. year was $885, and the Smith girl spend $891 a year.
 Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., secretary of Yale University, says that there are two thousand students not living in doI-rnitories who leave S532,- GOO here in the college year of thirty eight weeks He added that there are spending locally on average $2O0 a the handsome total of $1, ,172, ,O0O left in New Haven by Yale men in normal year. BLACKHAND KING