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Show COLLEGE LESS A LUXURY. One thing we may be seeing before long is a better chance for boys to work their way through college. In recent years, the tide has been going somewhat against them. Some institutions have increased their tuition fees, and of course the cost of living has risen. Meanwhile, in many college towns, the number of jobs a boy could find, to help meet his expenses, has fallen off. Now, however, a movement is ujider way to bring the college course into three years, instead of four. The plan is to cut out the long summer vacations and run the college col-lege plant all the year round. No student would be compelled com-pelled to attend in the summer months. But many boys who could raise the money for three years' attendance, when they couldn't raise it for four, and who want to get into business as quickly as possible, would doubtless take the chance gladly. This doesn't yet meet the case of the boy who has to earn as he goes, you may say. He needs the summer months to work on a paying job, 'doesn't he? Quite so, but the new plan providesfor this also. It divides the college year into four quarters, each complete in itself. When a student's money runs out, or when the right job offers, be it summer or winter, he can leave,at the end of any quarter and' return when he pleases. All he must do is to finish a total of twelve quarters, no matter mat-ter when he takes them. Already Leland Stanford and the University of Chicago Chi-cago have a plan something like this. Now it is being advocated at one of the conservative eastern colleges. President Hopkins of Dartmouth admits there are some objections, but he says we must do something to make college education less of a luxury, and in this he is assuredly assur-edly right. |