Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismay some Outside purists. "I wouldn't send my son here," concedes one faculty member privately, "but I enjoy the work immensely. What a challenge! It's like working in a slum." One reason: the university is obliged to accept any Alaskan high school graduate (at free tuition), has a 40% freshman drop-out rate. Unlike most state universities, it also has twice as many men (545) as women (274), no solace for half the men on 30-below winter nights...
...still owes $45 in back tuition...
...country, who help nominate bright seniors for hard-eyed grilling by 15 regional committees of scholars. The prize: one year of graduate study at any university in the U.S. or Canada. No small change, the award carries a $1,500 stipend, family allowances and the full cost of tuition...
Under the terms of the plan, Harvard will contribute approximately $4,000 to a total fund of nearly $50,000. The Nigerian students will receive full room, board and tuition from the American universities, but transportation will be paid by the Nigerian government...
...contrasts and contradictions. The flourishing economy consists of "elephants and fleas," i.e., giant automated factories in the midst of millions of family workshops whose low-paid women employees make everything from toys to machine parts. The universities are jammed, but students must often sell their blood to pay tuition and may commit suicide if they fail to get a job on graduation. The cities blaze with neon lights, teen-age girls in pony tails squeal their delight in "rockabilly" singers, and the streets resound to jukebox music and the clatter of pachinko (pinball) machines. But in most of Japan, marriages...