A prominent journal prints the following on college expenses:

"The periodical discussion as to how the expense of a college course nowadays compared with the cost a generation ago, has been started afresh by some talk on the subject at a recent reunion of the Yale alumni in Springfield, Mass. The great difficulty about reaching a just conclusion is the lack of sufficient trustworthy data. Startling stories are told as to the extravagant sums which are spent by rich youths at New Haven or Cambridge, and listeners at once jump to the conclusion that only millionaires can foot the bills of a student at Harvard or Yale. Even the average expenditure at sometimes figured out is deceptive and misleading, since heavy outlays by only a few will outweigh the light purses of the many. Thus the average expenses of five students may be $1,000 a year, and yet four of them may spend only $500 apiece; the $3,000 flung about by the fifth swelling the total so that the average for all is double the amount spent by each of four of them. While it is undoubtedly true that the proportion of rich youth to the whole number is larger than it used to be, and that they spend money more profusely than the rich youth did a quarter of a century ago, the necessary expenses of a college course have certainly not increased in any such ratio. Indeed, of late years the cost of board at New Haven and Cambridge has been reduced, and the co-operative principle has been applied in other ways to the great advantage of slender purses. At the Springfield meeting was cited the case of a father who sent one son to Yale and the other to Amherst, and found the latter's bills the larger. Of course no generalization could be ventured upon one such individual case, but we suspect that a careful comparison would show that, however much the average expenditures of a class in the larger college may exceed the average in the smaller, the sum required by a self-respecting young man is not a great deal more in the one case than in the other."