eat many students who know how to get on in a great city work their
way through Columbia.

Cornell University gives free tuition and free rooms to seniors and
juniors of good standing in their studies and of good habits. It has
thirty-six two-year scholarships (two hundred dollars), for freshmen,
won by success in competitive examination. It has also five hundred
and twelve state tuition scholarships. Many students support
themselves in part by waiting on table, by shorthand, newspaper work,
etc. The average yearly expenditure per student is five hundred
dollars.

Dartmouth has some three hundred scholarships; those above fifty
dollars conditioned on class rank; some rooms at nominal rent;
requirements, economy and total abstinence; work of one sort or another
to be had by needy students; a few get through on less than two hundred
and fifty dollars a year; the average expenditure is about four hundred
dollars.

Harvard has about two hundred and seventy-five scholarships, sixty
dollars to four hundred dollars apiece, large beneficiary and loan
funds, distributed or loaned in sums of forty dollars to two hundred
and fifty dollars to needy and promising under-graduates; freshmen
(usually) barred; a faculty employment committee; some students earning
money as stenographers, typewriters, reporters, private tutors, clerks,
canvassers, and singers; yearly expenditure (exclusive of clothes,
washing, books, and stationery, laboratory charges, membership in
societies, subscriptions and service), three hundred and fifty-eight
dollars to one thousand and thirty-five dollars.

The University of Pennsylvania in a recent year gave three hundred and
fifteen students forty-three thousand, two hundred and forty-two
dollars in free scholarships and fellowships; no requirements except
good standing. No money loaned, no free rooms. Many students support
themselves in part, and a few wholly. The average expenditure per
year, exclusive of clothes, railway fares, etc., is four hundred and
fifty dollars.

Wesleyan University remits tuition wholly or in part to two-thirds of
its under-graduates. Loan funds are available. "Beneficiaries must be
frugal in habits, total abstainers, and maintain good standing and
conduct." Many students are self-supporting, thirty-five per cent of
the whole undergraduate body earning money. The yearly expenditure is
three hundred and twenty-five dollars.

Yale is pretty well off now for fellowship