Many students earn money in various ways.

The average yearly expenditure is five hundred dollars.
The cost at Columbia University averages five hundred and forty-seven dollars, the lowest being three hundred and eighty-seven dollars.

A great many students who know how to get on in a great city work their way through Columbia.
Cornell University gives free tuition and free rooms to seniors and juniors of good standing in their studies and of good habits.

It has thirty-six two-year scholarships (two hundred dollars), for freshmen, won by success in competitive examination.

It has also five hundred and twelve state tuition scholarships.