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...students to be transported in public school buses. In Ohio and Michigan, the organization helped push through legislation supplying auxiliary services to parochial schools, such as counselors and specialized teachers, at a total annual cost of approximately $ 15 million. In Rhode Island and Michigan, it is now campaigning for tuition grants from states to parents of parochial school children as a partial rebate for the school taxes they pay. One of its slogans: "Need-not creed...
...undermines the public school system. Many Protestant church leaders have equally strong feelings about it. In Providence, R.I., this month, the Rev. C. Clifford Sargent, superintendent of the Methodist district, asked that a message be read from the district's pulpits urging defeat of the Rhode Island tuition grant bill. In Pennsylvania, state aid to parochial schools has been opposed by a number of religious groups, including the mostly Protestant state Council of Churches...
...mimeographed sheet distributed at the meeting charged that Harvard has no need of any fees from students. The College charges for room, board and tuition only "to preserve Harvard's traditional class make-up," the sheet said...
...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...
...their non-ROTC classmates: about 50 per cent of the Navy students, for example, are in Group III or higher. The ROTC courses can, of course, raise these students' academic standings. But non-ROTC students may also take these courses. The fact that ROTC courses are both undemanding and tuition-free makes them useful for making up a failed course, and most of some 75 non-ROTC students enrolled in such courses (mainly in Nav. Sci. 32, "Marine Navigation") have done so for that reason, according to F.X. Brady, professor of Naval Science...