Education: College Costs

A Dartmouth freshman who steps off the train at Hanover, N. H. next September with resources of less than $1,050 for the nine months following will soon find himself a victim of acute financial anxiety. He will need that sum to pay his tuition, his room & board and incidentals and there will not be a cent left for clothing, travel or amusement. If he plans to join a fraternity he will have to scrape up an additional $100 or $150. And if he is going to live like his other classmates at Dartmouth, he...

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