THE COST OF AN EDUCATION

In response to a telegraphic inquiry from the New York Sun as to whether $700 would suffice as an annual allowance for going through College, Dartmouth responded as follows:

"A Dartmouth undergraduate with seven hundred dollars a year to his credit can not only go through College, but can, as well, partake of some of the joys of life in the process.

"One hundred and forty dollars will pay his full tuition. One hundred dollars will provide for his share of two better rooms than he will ever again find for the same amount of money. At Dartmouth, the average weekly expenditure for board at the College Commons is four dollars. That does not allow for anything but a wellcurbed appetite; another dollar added to the four will supply sufficiency; often repletion. Make, then, five dollars a week for forty weeks and the young man will figure among the elect. Allow another sixty dollars for books, and incidental fees. The total thus far is five hundred dollars.

"We have a good many men at Dartmouth who would be glad to start in with the undistributed remaining two hundred dollars and take their chances on making them cover all the items as hitherto stated. Clothes in a country college are a less important item than at an institution in or near the city, so that two hundred dollars may serve not only to clothe the careful man, but to provide the means for enjoying fraternity membership and many of the other social privileges which are quite properly looked upon as an almost indispensable part of college life. It must be understood that this estimate is for the man who receives no scholarship aid, and who takes no advantage of the various ways which are open to the young man for helping himself along."