School Tuition

School Tuition

When Andrew William Mellon looked about for a place to send his boy Paul to boarding school, he chose Choate School at Wallingford, Conn, largely because of a sturdy, athletic scholar on its faculty, Raphael Johnson Shortlidge. Son Paul also went to Mr. Shortlidge's summer camp in New Hampshire. In 1927, having served Choate for 17 years. Teacher Shortlidge was made headmaster of Storm King School (Cornwall-on Hudson, N. Y.). Last September he moved again, this time to Tome at Port Deposit, Md., few miles' up the Susquehanna River from Chesapeake Bay. Some 30 Storm King boys followed him to the new school. Headmaster Shortlidge, now 49, found Tome's celebrated neo-Colonial plant wisely financed, well-staffed but half-empty. Built to accommodate 200 students. Tome had this year only 100. Its $1,500 tuition was too high to attract new boys. Experience has taught Headmaster Shortlidge that although it costs nearly twice as much to feed 200 boys as it does to feed 100. they do not cost twice as much to educate. Last week he announced a financial plan the simplicity of which would have done credit to Andrew William Mellon: Even if enrollment does not increase next year. Tome's tuition will be cut to $1,300, but Tome boys will have to clean their own rooms, make their beds, work once a week on the school grounds. If enrollment goes to 150, tuition will be cut to $1,075. If it goes to 200, the price will be $950. Thus, if each Tome boy or his parents will enlist one recruit, as Headmaster Shortlidse urged them to do. the school will be filled and everyone's pockets will be less empty.

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