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...contrast, typically charge annual tuition fees in mere hundreds of dollars. Can there be that much of a difference in the quality of education at such schools, versus that at private schools such as Harvard? While it is true that state schools receive grants from state governments to defray tuition costs, it is most questionable whether the amount of such grants even rivals the amount of Harvard's enormous endowment. If state schools can lower their tuition prices charged students, why can't private universities do likewise? It is one thing for a tiny private university in Schenectady Junction...
...argument frequently used by certain private schools to defend their financial policies is that some of the students' tuition fees are used to support research and laboratory work in another part of the University unrelated to the students' own field. For example, undergrads' fees may be used to help defray the extra cost of a medical student's education, or a laboratory worker's research. The question is, why should undergrads' fees be used to support this activity extraneous to their own education, when in fact the University in question could use part of its own endowment...
Therefore, it would seem that if the University does divest itself of its South African holdings, it should use this freed money to defray tuition costs, thus lowering or stabilizing tuition, rather than reinvesting it in different company stock. Stanley Hilton Harvard Business School Student
...MBTA might do well to keep the kiosk. If it does, the National Park Service will grant half the funds for restoration, with the MBTA paying the rest. In addition, recently enacted tax incentives designed to encourage the upkeep and safety of historic places would defray part of the expenses. What the state agency will do about the development of its yards on Eliot St., next to the new Kennedy School of Government, seems less clear...
...problem is that Harvard University doesn't provide any low-cost day-care centers for university mothers. The fees are phenomenally high," Cornelia F. Worsley '79, said. "I'm not sure the money should be coming from us. The responsibility of RUS is more to talk to Harvard to defray costs: we're doing a stopgap type of thing...