Word: tuition
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With the Ford money, the School will finance 77 one-year tuition grants over a six-year period beginning in 1967-68, and 12 all-expense fellowships annually for five years starting...
...electrical-engineering graduate of the University of Wisconsin ('28), Romnes climbed poles as a lineman in summer to earn tuition, began full-time work after graduation as a Bell Laboratories researcher, still holds six patents for his work on telephone circuits. He later went to the Long Lines Department, dealt with local problems as chief engineer for Illinois Bell Telephone, got manufacturing experience as president of Western Electric, and learned finance and administration as a vice president, vice chairman and finally president of the parent company...
...county supervisors decided to give tuition grants to the private schools, summoned white parents and parceled out the money while a Negro parents' suit to bar the grant was pending in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Negroes called this action a "midnight raid on the county treasury," and the court ordered restoration of the funds. Now that the Supreme Court has refused to review the judgment, the supervisors will have to raise the cash or go to jail...
...dirt farmer who lost his Blencoe, Iowa, spread during the Depression and died penniless, he first earned spending money by borrowing the family horse and hiring himself out to other farmers. At 17 he headed for Omaha, studied accounting while scouring floors and cleaning tables for board and tuition, got his first job as an accounting clerk with General Motors Acceptance Corp. Later, after Boyd served as a Nash sales executive, he ran his own Nash, then Buick dealerships in Sioux City, Iowa, and Alliance, Neb. In 1954, George Romney recruited Boyd as his special assistant, whose chief responsibility...
S.E.C. coaches admit that their athletic scholarship policies are the most liberal in the country. "A good football player," says Vanderbilt Coach Jack Green, "is a precious commodity-and we know it." Not that S.E.C. schools pay more; they offer the usual free ride: room, board, tuition and textbooks, plus $10 per month "laundry money." They just spend more. Alabama, for instance, awards 120 football scholarships a year compared with a maximum of 35 for Notre Dame. Even Vanderbilt, a perennial conference doormat-partly because it is the only S.E.C. university that does not offer majors in either "recreation...