Expenses at Harvard.

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.