Show COLLEGE COL EGE COST INCREASES L 1 X EASTERN contemporary tells us m usTA TA l that ie cost of u It college education education education tion must Jou be increased and that it may m y be placed beyond the reach of any except the tue of rich fam lam families Utes liles In the time near ner future The statement is based b 8 d on the fact that it costs a good deal more to give a young man mana a college oIle e course than the modern col cot college college I lege gets out of it That Is to say sav sa the time cost c st of or tuition to the youth is much less leR Ier than the cost to the college Harvard Hanard for example is said to have expended Jast ast year yeal more than it received in tuition fees Yale had hod hada hoda a similar balance on the wrong wron side of the time ledger and amid Princeton Colum Columbia bia bin Cornell Gomel the University of Penn Pennsylvania PennsylvanIa sylvania and other othel institutions told tol 1 the same story stor Some Sonic of the colleges have hae endowment funds that w will ill iII en enable able them to continue for an indefinite period Others Other however ho eI must in oat increase the tuition fees or shut up shop The question is a very ery serious one oneVe onedo Ve We do not want ant to see sec any of our great greot colleges closed for lack l ck of funds fund Higher education Js a as necessary to today toa today day a as it was twenty years eRrs ago in indeed indeed indeed deed it Itis is more Inore necessary now for fOl the battle of or o wits grows ever keener ke and the young young ung man with the best education education tion has J the best generally speaking to win But it would be a great pity pit to increase the tuition fees I Many young o ng men have a desperate struggle as it is to get through col cot college college lege An increase would make the b burden greater grenter than they could cou d Thear ear earIt It has ham 11 s been suggested and arid we be believe believe lieve with Avith justice that modern modem col colleges colIt colleges leges It spend spena more money m money ne than there is actual necessity for spending They purchase all aU kinds of expensive equip equipment equipment ment meat they the erect new buildings at heavy cost thus increasing sing the maintenance expense Again Agnin the income from en endowments endowments endowments is not as great as us it once was vas because interest rates on thor thoroughly thoroughly safe investments are arc much lower The difficulty is to say where the Ule pruning prima ing should begin Certainly though this is a It matter that the col cot loge tege authorities should carefully ines investigate before beCore they the conclude to o increase the cost of tuition to the students |