The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-01-20
WEDNESDAY,, JANUARY 20, 1915
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE JUNIOR
COLLEGE = EXPENSE TO
PARENTS

1t is proposed to establish at Bots,
a Junior college which will provid,
for the high school graduates of tina
and neighboring towns courses tina
shall be the equivalent of the Fresh
man and Sophomore work at the uni
versity. One of the arguments ad.
yanoed in favor of this experiment
(Which, by the way. is only one OF
numerous experiments which new
corners are ready to try on poor Ida
no in the role of the dog,) is that
Boise parents would be spared a
great expense and that the state
would incur little or none.
We venture to declare that both of
these statements are false and that, if
sincerely made, as they undoubtedly
are, they are based on complete ignor-
ance of conditions. 1t would not save
parents great deal of money to keep
their children at home. 1t would
cost the state vast sum of money to
Establish Junior college in Boise
The expense to the state in saving a
few dollars for Boise parents would
he all out of proportion and entirely
unjust to taxpayers elsewhere.
Let us consider first what sort OF
Expense parents would be spared ii
their boys and girls took their Fresh
IMAM and Sophomore work in a Junior
college in Boise rather than in the
university at Moscow.
Boys and girls have to be fed and
clothed, no matter where they live.
1T is a fact that living expenses are
higher in Boise than in Moscow and
that board and room can be obtained
here for as low a sum as anywhere
i'm the country. If at home, a high
school graduate would need bed to
Sleep in, room to study in, and three
meals a day to eat Because at home
fhe expense of boarding and rooming
the boy comes out of the family
bocketbook, it is not noticed as much
hs would be the monthly transmitting
pr check to Moscow. But it costs
lust the same. You can not feed
healthy young person, give him
warm, lighted rooa, take care of his
laundry, or provide for other neces
Eary living expenses without spend
y, No
Id on food, ROOM and laundry by keep
Ing high school graduate in Boise
instead of sending him to his UNIVERSE
" would be so small as to be negligi- |
Die.
Take the matter of clothes Con-
|rary to the opinion mistakenly held
hany persons, the students at the uni
fersity do not dress extensively. They |
(ress plainly. You do not see the |
lver-dressing that is characteristic of |
hany high school students at their
lass parties. The students are rigid
y diciplined in this matter; and ex
|ensive or extravagant dressing is not
|nly discouraged but actually forbid
len.
Take the mater of spending-money.
The demands made upon university
kudents for social expenses are light.
We believe they are much lighter than
be demands for similar purposes
! ade upon the average high school
by or girl in Boise. Their entertain
tents in Boise are on more lavish
Eale. Their class or fraternity par
les are held in halls for which large
fnts are paid; decorations are efab-
Fate; and the cost of single affair
|aches a figure that has never yet
len heard of in. the university. The
kr capita tax for recent party must
i've been four or five times what any
|milar enterprise ever cost stu
Int at the university. The universe
is able to exercise control over
|e social life and the expenditures
b social life which the high school
h not exercise. The university has t
|tablished standards for economic
social life such as would amaze b