Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financial statement of the Harvard Business School for the year 1921-22 just given out shows a surplus for the School of $23,468.49. This unusually large gain confirms the recently expressed opinion of Dean W. B. Donham '98, that, at the present rate of tuition, the School can be successfully conducted without operating deficits...
...year 1920-21, the accounts of the School showed a deficit of approximately $76,000, while the year before the shortage was well over $20,000. The method by which these conditions have been changed, has been, in the main, an increase in the tuition fee. On account of the established of a loan fund of over $30,000 this increase has not been a hardship to students who have been unable to meet it immediately...
...older and newer universities alike are victims of the lecturing habit. Education is conceived mainly as a process of sending students to attend as many lectures as possible, and, while some attempt is made to supply by individual and group tuition the deficiencies of the lecture method, there can be no doubt that the student is expected to acquire his education mainly by the assimilation of lectures. He does not, and cannot in fact, do this, for, although the lecture has its proper place in the scheme of education, it is wholly unsuited to serve as the main instrument...
...second term-bill was sent out Saturday from the Bursar's office to all men in the University. This bill, which includes the second installment of tuition, rent and care of rooms for the first half year, and dining room charges and Union charges to October 31, will be payable on or before Wednesday, November 29, at the Harvard Trust Company...
Should the findings of this commission warrant the expenditure of a sum sufficient to build a State university, most of the endowed institutions would endorse the plan. But, as has often been pointed out, the mere tuition fee is a small part of the expense of a university education. Most men who can find time to spend four years in college, and who are convinced of the advantages to be derived therefrom, find little difficulty in meeting the cost of tuition. It is the cost of living away from home, and the time taken from their work, which keeps many...