Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Naval students are in the Regular NROTC program. These students were chosen for the program in their senior year of high school, and are expected, according to the Navy brochure, to be "reasonably disposed to making the Navy a career." While at Harvard, they receive Government scholarships covering all tuition, books, and room and board. The total value of these scholarships is presently around $230,000, and in an average year, about five borderline students are accepted to Harvard as a result of receiving this stipend. The non-Regular, or Contract NROTC students do not receive scholarships, but they...
...Tuition Paid by Tolerance
...genuinely pluralistic society, then its goal is not to assimilate minorities, but to let them?within reason?live together, each in its own way. The Jews have had practice in this. The black is just beginning the course, and it is unfortunate that part of the cost of his tuition must be paid by Jewish tolerance. But so long as U.S. society repudiates the anti-Semitic hostility of the black and prevents it from bursting into open, physical violence, the Jew is in no real danger...
...fishing captain whose sighting helped in the recovery of the bomb from the sea demanded $5,000,000; he got only medals from two grateful governments. Francisco Alarcon Cano, whose private school was shuttered for six weeks because a bomb fragment landed on his patio, sought $733 in lost tuition. He got nothing. "We may have made a mistake," says a 16th Air Force officer of the schoolmaster's case. "But the door is always open if he wants to come back." The point that escapes the Americans is that Alarcon, and others like him, will not come back...
...grants, direct federal assistance would go to students rather than colleges. As a result, colleges would find themselves competing for students. The law of the marketplace would prevail, and institutions would have extra incentive to at tract students by making courses more responsive to their needs and desires. Since tuition alone no longer covers the cost of college instruction, additional federal assistance would be funneled directly to the colleges in proportion to the number of extra students...