Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fees for extra courses are to be charged this year on the tuition bill issued April 3 and payable on or before April 24, instead of on the June term bill as in former years, according to an announcement from the Bursar's office...
...favor the raising of the University tuition fee to a degree that will cover the actual costs of instruction, provided that if such an increase is effected there will be ample provision made through scholarships and remission of tuition for men who are unable to pay the full amount...
...increase the salaries of the professors. Over eleven hundred votes were cast and a 567-548 majority for the affirmative recorded. While these results are far from conclusive, the heavy voting indicates wide-spread interest. From the vote itself the fact that a majority voted for increased tuition is a sign of idealism at Princeton worthy of its noted graduate and president. But in our opinion the minority-were right--although for different reasons perhaps than those for which they voted. Granted that there are many men in college who could well afford to pay three or four times...
...advantage of this method are obvious; the money is voluntarily contributed; no inequalities are emphasized; and there is no hint of charity. Rather than the system endorsed by Princeton's vote, the goal of a university should be to have a large endowment and a small tuition fee the same...
...that as it may, we must face-the fact that Harvard is rapidly becoming a second-rate institution, entirely subordinated to the centres of culture on the south side of Massachusetts Avenue. The University threatens to lapse into a mere examining board, and the tuition into the registration fee in a tutoring course. It is still easy for those who come to college because their parents send them here, and stay simply because it is "the thing to do" to get themselves catapulted through their examinations. And during the rest of the year, there are of course sufficient diversions...