Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhowers, the Jim Hagertys, Farm Manager Arthur Nevins and Mrs. Nevins). But, as usual, there were final details to be decided. To Gettysburg came couriers carrying freshly typed drafts; back they sped to Washington, with here and there a penciled Eisenhower notation. Occasionally along the road the couriers passed higher-level visitors inbound to the farm. The week's first: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom, who came for final approval of HEW's four-year plan for aid to scientific education (see EDUCATION). One day, comfortably dressed in a checked sports shirt and sports jacket...
Despite major increases for defense and education, the Administration expects that the record budget can be kept in balance without tax increases. On the revenue side it will recommend continued excise taxes, will gamble that a business upswing by midyear will guarantee a higher level of tax revenue than in 1958. On the expense side, the Budget Bureau will scissor administrative non-defense spending; e.g., the Interior Department will start no new dam or reclamation projects (with the possible exception of the $400 million-plus Colorado River storage dam at Glen Canyon, Ariz.); nonessential defense spending for "chrome trimmed" military...
Whether Coach Floyd Wilson's five can respond to the challenge of higher caliber opposition and regain its earlier season confidence and poise should be clear by Monday...
...general position is that the college undergraduate pays less than costs. The faculty, indeed, tends to subsidize him. Institutions of higher learning are generally in financial difficulties. One way out is to require that students pay tuition more nearly equal to costs. That they can afford to do so is suggested by the anticipated lifetime income of a college man and a fortiori of a Harvard alumnus. Sample studies of incomes of families and spending patterns also point to capacity to pay full costs for a substantial proportion of college students. In fact, payments of costs would require an additional...
...second point of criticism relates to the cost of higher education vis-a-vis the charge. Here the CRIMSON concentrates on the small time given by faculty to undergraduates and the large costs of graduate instruction...