s and prizes; remits all but
forty dollars of term bills, in case of worthy students, regular in
attendance and studious; many such students earning money for
themselves; average yearly expenditure, about six hundred dollars.

There is a splendid chance for girls at some of the soundest and best
known girls' colleges in the United States.

The number of girls in the University of Michigan who are paying their
own way is large. "Most of them," says Dr. Eliza M. Mosher, woman's
dean of the college, "have earned the money by teaching. It is not
unusual for students to come here for two years and go away for a time,
in order to earn money to complete the course. Some of our most worthy
graduates have done this. Some lighten their expenses by waiting on
tables in boarding-houses, thus paying for their board. Others get
room and board in the homes of professors by giving, daily, three hours
of service about the house. A few take care of children, two or three
hours a day, in the families of the faculty. One young woman, who is
especially brave and in good earnest, worked as a chambermaid on a lake
steamer last year and hurried away this year to do the same. It is her
aim to earn one hundred dollars. With this sum, and a chance to pay
for room and board by giving service, she will pay the coming year's
expenses. Because it is especially difficult to obtain good servants
in this inland town, there are a few people who are glad to give the
college girls such employment."

"It is my opinion," said Miss Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount
Holyoke College, "that, if a girl with average intelligence and energy
wishes a college education, she can obtain it. As far as I know, the
girls who have earned money to pay their way through college, at least
in part, have accomplished it by tutoring, typewriting or stenography.
Some of them earn pin-money while in college by tutoring, typewriting,
sewing, summer work in libraries and offices, and in various little
ways such as putting up lunches, taking care of rooms, executing
commissions, and newspaper work. There are not many opportunities at
Mount Holyoke to earn large amounts of money, but pin-money may be
acquired in many little ways by a girl of ingenuity."

The system of compulsory domestic service obtaining now at Mount
Holyoke--whereby, in return for thirty, or at the most, fifty minutes a
day of light household labor, every student reduces her college
expenses by a h