COLLEGE EXPENSES.

Recent statistics show the cost of living at German universities, notwithstanding the fact that the Germans are becoming fonder of spending money then they once were, is still very low as compared with that in America. Rent, food and clothes are all cheap, and there is not the fashion, as with us to be lavish, so that the competition in expenditure of which so many well-meaning but weak minded American undergraduates are the victims, is practically unknown. A thousand dollars a year is the figure now generally given in estimation of the ordinary expense at a "crack" American college; and probably a considerable part of this is to be attributed to the general lavishness prevailing outside. The tone of American life is not simple, and comparing the general scale of living, inside and outside, now and twenty years ago, we doubt if the undergraduates have done more than keep up with the rest of us. The only people whom we discipline into plain living and high thinking are those engaged in the work of teaching; we make that calling as unattractive to men of ability as possible. An able professor, with a family, screwed down to $4,000 or $5,000 a year, and surrounded by undergraduates living in splendor and luxury, may be pardoned if he sighs when he thinks of the position of the learned in Germany. [Nation.