Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...initial resources of the school, apart from tuition fees, will be an endowment of $2,000,000. Of this sum, $500,000 was pledged by the General Education Board on June 2, 1919, contingent upon the raising of $1,500,000 by Harvard. On September 19, 1919, the President and Fellows of the University voted the sum of $500,000 toward the establishment of the school, this sum being practically equivalent to the existing budget of the Division of Education. The remaining million dollars have been secured from funds already received as a part of the Endowment Fund. The gift...
...With a tuition fee of $225, and with a normal per student cost of operating of $1180, the Medical School offers a situation unique in the financial affairs of the University. Its income from endowments amounting in 1917-18 to $383,785, largely making up for the difference between the tuition fee and the actual cost of instruction, is pointed out by the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee as a significant object lesson to the 36,000 living graduates, undergraduates and former members of the University. It is evident, says the committee, that the University has to thank endowments...
...started by greeting a new sport, but we must close by greeting a new course. Alas! it has been our experience that this amusement has tuition fees. But then, no Widow is needed to drive home the lesson--"He who plays with fire will be burned...
...Where tuition fees have not been sharply raised a university is hardly justified in appealing to the public for support. It has not made full use of the opportunities within its own control...
...fallacy to suppose that deserving students will be deprived of a college or university education if tuition fees are increased. Experience proves just the contrary. What is important in such cases is that ample provision be made to care for those students who, having proved their fitness, would be deprived of a higher education unless financial aid were forthcoming. The glory of any American university today is the large number of students who by their own efforts are earning all or part of the money needed to keep them in residence at the university...