Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's total endowment of $535,102,249 at the end of its fiscal year, June 30, was more than twice that of Yale, its nearest rival in this department. With industrial stocks having risen about 85 points since last June, the University's "market value" is now even higher, the report said...
Historian-Educator Jacques Barzun can be a mean critter when aroused, as he has been of late by contemporary prose (a "mixture of jargon, cant, vogue words, and loose syntax"). Higher Learning (he could find only "an immense amount of Lower Learning" in the U.S.), and the Ph.D. racket (TIME, Nov. 25, 1957). In American Scholar Barzun castigates his latest victim: detective stories, which, he says, have fallen on evil days, turning increasingly into "novels of haze and daze...
...Higher tuition charges than at present, however, are necessary in both public and private colleges for those who can afford them, Dickey wrote in a letter to the New York Times. On this point he is in agreement with Seymour E. Harris, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, who advocates gradually increased tuition charges in line with costs...
...appreciate very much the attention you have given my views on the financing of higher education. I think on the whole you have done an excellent job, and I am particularly grateful for your editorial and the excellent summary of the issues by Mr. Farquhar. He not only summarized my position effectively but also pointed out some relevant difficulties...
...whole, as compared to the rise of per capita income, tuition has become a great bargain in the last fifteen years and this is at the expense of the kind of product that the colleges are turning out. If the student pays more, he will also get a higher quality product, we hope. Seymour E. Harris '20, Littauer Professor of Political Economy...