The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-19
YALE 1915 CLASS .SPENDSAMILLION BEING 'EDUCATEO'
Yale Seniors Show That Total With Yearly Average S1,088
 For Each Man.

New Haven, April 19-From the of the academic department of Yale as compiled by the Yale News. it ap- pears that the average cost of a col Iege education to the members of the class has been about $1,088.22 per year for each of the four years at Yale. The average expenditures re- ported for the entire four years total $4,247, which, however, does not mean that there were not a great many men in the class who secured their education without spending any where near that amount of money.
 The largest sum spent by one stu, dent during one year was $4,5OO and that sum was spent in Freshman year. The lowest necessary for freshman year was $2O0 and the aver age cost of freshman year. $1,O44. In 1 the sophmore year the highast tndi- vidua1 expenditure was $2,80O and the lowest $20O; average, $I,076. The junior year cost one man $4,OOO while | another managed to live on $2O0, and the average expense was $1,1O6. The largest amount spent in senior year was $3.100; the smallest, $25O; aver 1 age, $1,127.
 The total expenditure of the class l each year was, freshman, $26O,OO5; l sophomore $277,636; junior $281.OO6; senior $266s404. The average ex- 1 penses of each of the men for four years was $4.247. The total expen- allure of the class was $1.o79,111 These other statistics appear from 1 the report: Sixty-four per cent. of l the class use tobacco, and 5 percent. admit of moderate amount of a1co- ,ho1ic liquor. Fifty per cent. have l spent their summers in 1oaf1ng. 1 The voting on daily and Sunday | chanel was very close Daily chanel ] was favored by a majority of IA, while A more men were opposed to Sunday lschape1 than in favor of it. A course 1 in current events was favored by 223 men and 80 were opposed to it. Fifty 1 three men favored this course by
 men; 34 by requiring students to read 1 the newspapers; 34 by discussions by l the professors. Some suggested the
 movies"
 The height Of the class varies from 1 five feet to six feet, five inches; 1 weight 41o to 22o pounds; ages, 1s to 29, average age 22.
 Nearly twice as many men are re- 1 publicans as democrats. Two men
 are prohibitionists and the same mum I Der are socialists. Sixty-eight per cent of the class are engaged in ath- Ietics and 46 per cent have been or
 a, university college or class team. f IheSe are some OLneF SCaL1St1cS Use tobacco 167: use alcoholic liquor 143; wear glasses. 1S4; wore glasses Iobefore entering college 123; engaged 39; boarded at commons 32O; voted s3; republican 45; democratic 24s
 split z; progressive A; prohibitionists
 2; socialist, 9; average number os
 states visited Is; number who have
 been abroad 125; taken part in ath-
 1etics 179; engaged in voluntary re. ligio11S work 93; members of musica.
 clubs 83; debaters 39; contributed to publications, The News, 32; Rec.
 ord, 2e; Courant. 1s; Lit, 10. Religious denominations: Episcopa
 22; Presbyterian. 53; Congregational
 39; Roman Catholic, 25; Baptist 19.
 Hebrew, IT; Methodist, 12; DutcE
 Reformed, 5; Lutheran, 4 Unitarian
 4; Reformed Presbyterian. 2; Univers
 alist, 1; ]; heather, 1; atheist, 1.