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fee in qualitative analysis is $2.50 per laboratory credit. The median fee per labratory credit is $3.34 for general chemistry; $2.50 for qualitative and quantitative analysis; $3.75 for organic chemistty, and $4.00 for physical chemistry. TABLE VI Summary of Chemistry Laboratory Fees
Fee per Highest Fee Semester Mode Course Median Highest Fee Fee per Credit in Mode Course Median Fee per Lab- Highest Fee Mode oratory Credit Median
$20.00 5.00 6.00 4.50
$25.00 .5.00 7.00 10.00
$30.00 5.00 7.00 10.50
$35.00 10.00 7.50 11.67
$20.00 5.00 6.00 5.00
No fee
No fee
No fee
No fee
No fee
1.67 15.00
1.75 18.00
1.67 15.00
1.50 18.00 No fee
3.34
1.67 18.00 2.50 2.50
No fee
No fee
2.50
3.75
No fee
4.00
Table VI summarizes the practice with respect to chemistry laboratory fees. The range in each case is from no fee to the highest fee as listed. The writers find no general and uniform philosophy of assigning chemistry fees and deposits. Any recommendation appealing to us has been implied by Thurber (3) in the statements: There are a number of institutions that have made the commendable change of charging just one fee which they call a tuition or incidental or contingent fee, and include all their charges under this head. . ...The library fee is one that might properly come s & i n the general fee. .and if we go so far, why should not charges for the laboratories he averaged over a period of years nod n flat fee included in the tuition or fee charged in the di~erentsch&ls? . . I t appears uerfectly reasonable that all students within a particular school or college should be-charged a flat fee for the laboratory. and the laboratories will he there f i t h e m to use just as the library is. .The plan of stating a large n u d e r of different fees is to he deprecated. .
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Literature Cited WILLIAMS."Student Fees in Home Economics." J. Home Econonzicr.. 16.. 650-2 (N&.. 1924). REEVESand RUSSELL."College Oraanization and Administration." Board of Education, Disciples of Christ, ~nd
