Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overdue. In St. Louis, the privately owned Mercantile Library doubled its annual user's fee to $10 per person, the first increase in charges since it was founded 112 years...
...Words. Labor M.P. Fred Peart cried that fee-charging education "buys positions of privilege in industry and politics. What's good enough for the dull son of a rich man must be good enough for the brilliant son of the poor man ... I condemn racial segregation; and I condemn social segregation...
...Britain's gusty, professionally disgruntled Labor Party, the last important flags of privilege in a land now heavily socialized fly from the most offensive fortresses of all-the nation's great public (fee-charging) schools. For years, Labor leaders have stressed their blood bond with the common man by declaring ringingly that public (i.e., private) schools should be closed down-even when, as has sometimes been the case, the Labor orators have been Eton or Winchester men themselves...
...preventing ratification of the education committee's report as part of the next Labor platform -ignored facts that, as a minority member of the education committee, he knew as well as his listeners. Scholarship programs ensure public-school education for brilliant sons of the poor; and while the fee-charging schools have always been centers of privilege, snobbery is less important than the fact that they provide Britain's best pre-university education...
...students who developed the idea for the House production. "They have a very well-thought out plan," he stated. On the opening evening of the production, Lowell House members and their dates will be admitted free of charge. On the other four evenings of the plays run, an admission fee of $1.50 will be charged...