Professor Charles E. Thwing has an article in the current number of the Forum on the cost of collegiate education. He shows the increase of expenses at Harvard. From 1825-30 the average annual expenses were $176.00, of which half went for tuition and half for board and room; from 1831-40 the average was $188.10; from 1840-48, $194.00; 1849-60, $227~($138.00 went for board and room); in the sixties it jumped from $263.00 to $437.00, two-thirds of which went for board and room; in 1881-82 the average expense to an economical student ranged from $484.00 to $807.00, the latter sum including a few more material comforts, and in 1893-94 these last figures had been slightly reduced.

The cost of administration of the college has increased rapidly. At the period of the American Revolution the average salary of a professor was $1000. Early in the century it was increased to $1500, and remained so until 1838-39. Then it was increased to $1800. In 1854 it was raised to $2000 and in 1866 it was $3200. In 1869 it became $4000. At present the maximum salary paid is $4500.