Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friend of the University remarked long ago that an institution of learning which was not in need was not doing all it should. . . . Universities, if successful, must be beggars, and the better work they do the more they must beg." Dr. Lowell also explains the principle on which tuition fees were raised last year to meet a deficit...
...Yale authorities make the interesting announcement that senior students in the Sheffield Scientific School who maintain high rank in their studies will hereafter be given the concession of a reduced tuition fee. For such students of high rank the tuition fee will be $200; for others it will remain fixed...
This is a novelty in university financing. Until very recent years it has been the practice at all the larger universities to impose a uniform tuition fee in every department and without reference to scholastic rank. Of late, however, the tendency has been to make some differentiation between the undergraduate and the professional departments, charging a higher fee in one than in the other. This policy has been defended on the ground that some branches of professional education cost more than others. A medical or scientific school, for example, with large amounts of laboratory instruction, is usually more expensive...
...Daily Princetonian" created a flurry in the world of colleges by proposing higher tuition fees for the rich than for the poor. The stir was so great, in fact, that the "New York Times" saw fit to comment on the plan editorially. What the "Princetonian" said in effect was this: the present tuition fee comes nowhere near meeting the actual cost to the college of a student's education. It is unwise, however, to raise the fee for all, because a larger fee would keep away the poor. But there is no reason why the rich should share the benefit...
Since June 13, 1888, Mr. Mason has served as Bursar, the chief financial officer of the University with whom students come in contact. In addition to receiving tuition fees, bonds, and term bills, this officer pays all of the operating expenses of the University. Yearly the work has increased, for the annual operating expenses of the University have mounted from about $600,000, when Mr. Mason took office, to over $5,000,000 at the present time...