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Show COLLEQE EXPENSES. What doea It cost to go to college! No exact answer ran be given. A great deal depends on the college, and more on the young man or woman. One man doea not even regard It as a sacrifice sac-rifice to dispense with certain tblngs which another deems ludlipeniablo. A graduate at a New Kngland college, filling out the blank In a Hat of questions ques-tions asking blm what he meant to do after leaving, wrote "Nothing but to spend money." Perhsps he was not quite serious; but a young man who could give such an answer even Jestingly, Jest-ingly, probably had already mora money to spend than waa good for hint Inquiries about the eipcnies of students stu-dents were recently msde at thirty representative colleges. Tho answers show a wide range, from two hundred and fifty dollars a year to one thousand thou-sand dollars, and at women's colleges from three hundred and fifty dollars a year at Mount lloloke to Ave hundnd at Iladcllffe or Vassar. Clothing la not Included, but the figures are supposed sup-posed to represent the average expenditures expen-ditures of students who have a serious purpose, but who also enter heartily Into college life, belonging to societies and supporting student orgsnlzatloni. On one point all the answers agree. Not even at the largest universities, . where (hero Is most extravagance among some students, Is a student who works for hla own support looked down upon by the others Colleges are highly democratic, and that form of snobbishness which despises a man be-causo be-causo be Is poor Is almost unknown In them. Most colleges remit the tuition fees or give other aid to needy students, and many take sprclM messurer to help them to employment. Endowments Endow-ments and scholarship funds have been so Increased that there probably never was a time when a really carnoat young man or woman could go through college wllh less money, do better work or have more enjoyment then now, |