The publication of the statistics of the senior class at Yale brings out a note-worthy fact. The average expenses for the course are stated as follows: For the freshman year, nine hundred and sixty-one dollars; for the sophomore, one thousand and ninety-nine; for the junior, twelve hundred and thirteen; and for the senior, twelve hundred and fifty-five. This in turn gives and average of eleven hundred and thirty-two dollars for each year.

The sum strikes us as remarkably high. The question at once arises how this compares with the average expenses at Harvard. To this question, no satisfactory answer can be secured, but some significant facts are available. An examination of the reports of the class secretaries of former years shows that the number of men who spent less than a thousand a year is nearly twice as large as the number who spent more than that amount, and that the number who spent over two thousand is small. President Eliot, moreover, says that in his judgment there is not one man in ten here whose father can, without exaggeration, be called rich.

Owing to the carelessness with which material of this kind is always furnished, we would not want to lay too much stress upon them, but all the facts together, even though not entire proof, are indication that the popular notion of the relative amount of money spent by Harvard and Yale students is incorrect. There is strong reason to surmise that the average expenditure at Yale is greater than that at Harvard.