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Last year $70 of every student's tuition went to the H.A.A. to defray the $300,000 deficit it accumulated...
Increasing numbers of students are seeking summer jobs to defray rising college costs, John W. Holt, director of the Office of Student Employment, said yesterday. He predicted that 500 to 1,000 University students will register at the Employment Office for summer work before March...
...order to help defray its operating expenses of $19,000,000 a year, Columbia had to raise student tuition fees by a third in 1949. However the registrar recently released figures indicating a five percent drop in the enrollment since last year. Because of the draft, the college expects to lose 20 percent of its enrollment next year. A further financial loss has resulted from a decrease in endowments while costs and salaries continue to rise...
...What will [Notre Dame players] get? They will get what they have always got, no matter how poor they may be: an opportunity for a real education. They will get tuition scholarships, and a job that will interfere neither with their studies nor with their athletics, to help defray the expenses of their board and lodging...
Whitman Hall will give an Easter party for 20 sixth grade children from the East End Union settlement house from 3:30 to 5 p.m. today. House dues, paid by residents at the beginning of the term, will defray the expenses of the party...