Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another jury, the one that judges the competition in painting and sculpture for the Grand Prix de Rome (fellowships amounting to $2,000 a year and including tuition and a studio at the American Academy in Rome), gave their awards to Deane Keller, a student at the Yale School of Fine Arts, for an allegorical painting, "The Genius of Medicine," and to Joseph Kisselewski of Browerville, Minn., for a memorial sculpture...
Born of Irish stock in Cheshire 68 years ago, he supplemented his schooling with private tuition in science and modern literature. He entered business, but at 23 became a proofreader for the Newcastle Chronicle. Within six weeks he was writing some of that paper's leading editorials. Contributions to the national reviews brought him wider notice, a position on the London Telegraph and the editorship, in 1905, of the Weekly Outlook. Three years later Northcliffe snapped him up for the Sunday Observer, which Garvin transformed into a magazine-newspaper with 250,000 circulation...
...limitation of enrolment by which the number of new Freshmen admitted will be reduced to about 825 or 850. It is stated that this reduction will go toward improving instruction in the large introductory courses by reducing slightly the size of each class or section. The increase in tuition from $250 to $300 now in effect is already being applied to this end by increasing the pay of assistants and instructors...
...Travel Bureau also takes charge of all kinds of individual intercourse. In 1925 it arranged about 1000 correspondence exchanges among students throughout the World. The idea of tuition visits proved very popular. A student of one country by this system is a guest of a family of another country, teaching them his language in return for his room and board. Many such visits have been arranged through our London office between Great Britain and the Continent...
...which gives a four year course. Entrance examinations are now given for admittance and thus the sole qualification for the Gymnasiums is intellectual ability rather than wealth as was formerly the case. Poor students are admitted as readily as richer pupils and they are aided by a reduction in tuition and help in the form of regular stipends. If one does not go to the Gymnasium after completing the 'grundschule', he continues the compulsory education until...