SHOOTING EDUCATION COSTS

At Port Royal, Virginia, a new type of university, a "depression college" is being established to off-set the present unemployment of college professors and restricted finances of students. In its two manor houses and town hall, it will take care of about one hundred students and twenty teachers. Idyllic as it may sound, hunting and fishing are to be substituted for other sports and will help to provide food. Because it will be to a large measure self-supporting the students will not pay more than two hundred and fifty dollars a year. Further the "depression college" will enable the professors, who are teaching for their living expenses, to carry on their own research studies, since a large library will be at their disposal.

The college is from its very character a temporary institution. For this reason and because its professors are otherwise "unemployed" it will have difficulty getting other colleges to recognize its scholastic credits. It will have to keep its standing high, if any such recognition is to be made possible. Unsubstantial as the plan may seem, however, its aims should compel aid from better established institutions. And certainly such a "depression college" is a real challenge to the continued high cost of higher education.