Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conjecture, but on the figures supplied by the registrar of the university. Only 35 per cent of those who matriculate into the graduate schools of Columbia ever gain their degrees, and only 25 per cent, according to Dean Woodbridge, may be said to have justified the expense of their tuition. In such a situation it is clear that the problems of elimination of the applicants for the graduate schools of the country are fully as acute as the corresponding college problems...
...deficit is to be made up by the sale of the Board's publications, a possible increase in the fee, and most significant of all, an increased membership charge to those colleges which are served by the Board. Although it has been well known that the cost of tuition at Harvard never covers the expenditure of the University on the individual, it is not generally known that the college goes out thus to meet the candidate...
...Mooseheart, Ill., is a home for orphaned Moose boys and girls. They are taught trades, educated through high school, afforded college scholarships. Director General Davis suggested that Moose children may be admitted in future at the death of their mother only, provided their fathers pay tuition...
...Tuition. The most significant statement of the season was that of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He and his father have given more than a half billion dollars to general education, disease prevention and like social factors. They make no stint of their giving. Yet the younger John D. Rockefeller, at the 153rd commencement exercises of Brown University, his alma mater, last week forced himself to declare that the time is close when wealthy men will find themselves unable to keep up with the demands of education institutions for gifts...
...cost, according to U. S. Government figures for the academic year 1923-24, $140,000,000 to operate the schools of the nation. Of this student tuition and related fees paid less than half. A quarter came from endowments; another quarter from gifts...