MISCELLANEOUS. The following article on "College Expenses," taken from the Harvard Advocate, will doubtless be of interest to many of our readers: There is not a little difficulty in determining the exact amount that the average Harvard student, average in point of wealth, expends annually. One who fancies that he by no means stands below the average spends $700; while another, also believing that he is not at all above it, requires $1,200 to meet the bills of his thirty-eight weeks. Between these two estimates, each approximating the truth, to strike an exact balance is not easy; but facts collated and compared authorize the statement that the annual expenses of the average Harvard man lie between $900 and $1,000. The extremes of expenses, however, are wide apart, with a greater variance here than at any other American college. The lowest is probably $450, though some may touch $400, which leaves but $47 for all the incidental expenses of the college year; while the highest reaches $4,000. Examine for a moment the amount of each college bill. Tuition is $150. The highest elsewhere is $90, while the average rate does not exceed $75. The prices of rooms at the different colleges vary in about the same proportion. The highest price asked, save at Harvard, is $140, which is the amount paid for a suite of rooms in Farnham or Durfee at Yale; while the best rooms with us command $300. The least desirable rooms at Harvard are valued at $44; at Yale, $25. As regards board the Harvard man expends relatively less than for any other item on the list of his college essentials. Nearly one-half of the students pay but $4; while the rest, who are in private families, pay $5, $6, $7, or $8 per week. $8 is the maximum. To compare these rates with the rates in other colleges, it may be well to use Yale again as their representative. The students of that institution, instead of being herded into a single large club, divide themselves into numerous smaller ones. At these clubs the average price of board is $6. To those also who are inmates of private families the cost is about the same; the maximum being $7. The above figures have been obtained in many cases directly from the college authorities, and are believed to be correct. It is not, however, the purpose of the writer to draw a moral from these facts, but rather to state clearly and concisely some of the expenses at several of the leading American colleges. From the Amherst Student we learn that the Seniors of Amherst have voted "that the customary class-day exercises be omitted." "Once before since their inauguration in 1852, have the usual exercises of that day been omitted, and now, as then, the omission is owing to class dissensions." The Yale Courant very appropriately comments, in the following terms, on the usual annual rush which recently came off in the customary manner: "Well, the annual rush at Hamilton Park has come and gone, and what have the Freshmen and Sophomore classes,-what has the college to show for it? This question is answered in a few words. The class of '77 can show a broken arm, one or two broken ribs, a man in a fainting fit, and a little more experience of college barbarity. The Sophomores have the pleasure of thinking that they have gained a victory over a lot of young, inexperienced boys, just out of school, and a proud thought it must be ! The college has to show a great deal of harm done to its reputation, and no inconsiderable amount of injury to its future prosperity; for what parent will wish to send his son to a place where, during the very first week of his course, he is liable to sustain injuries severe enough to put him back a year in his college preparation for active life? And what is all this worth? Seriously, has not the should be put a stop to? give up old customs, but here is a case in which it must seem evident to every right-thinking mind that this feeling should be given up in view, both of what is the best thing for the reputation of Yale College in general, and our reputation as gentlemen in particular." time arrived when this annual barbarity There is a natural reluctance among us to The Freshmen have exhibited their usual spirit and have met their usual success. The customary games of foot-ball have been played. The superior skill and discipline of the Sophomores was attended with a victory after a sharp contest. There has been no hazing, no canerushing to perplex the faculty and to delight upper-classmen and outsiders. The Dartmouth. Of the eighty-eight girls that have entered Michigan University thirty-seven will study in the medical department.-Ex. 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