Parents of U.S. college students had a chance last week to find out how the students spend their money. Indiana University's Assistant Professor of Economics Mary Mazeppa Crawford had studied Indiana spending to the decimal place (Student Folkways and Spending at Indiana University, 1940-41, A Study in Consumption; Columbia University Press; $3.50).* A good state university, neither very rich nor very poor, Indiana could be considered an average guinea pig. Sample Crawford findings:
> "Even coeds who talked much of reducing ate [potatoes] regularly when they were free. But when a charge was...
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