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...recently, most Jewish religious training has been in cheders-one-room seminars in which a handful of boys gather around a rabbi to learn Hebrew, read the Torah and recite prayers. Contemporary day schools are much like Protestant or Roman Catholic private schools. At the Orthodox Manhattan Day School (tuition: $1,000 a year, although 80% of the students have scholarships), the 370 students spend their mornings on religious studies in Hebrew. After a kosher lunch, they turn to secular subjects, taught in English-including science and new math. Standards in the day schools are high; 90% of their graduates...
...statue sculpted in wood that has become so darkened by age and candle smoke fhat it is known as the Black Virgin. Daughter of an industrial chemist, Caballé was enrolled in Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo at nine, worked as a seamstress to pay for her tuition, graduated at 23 with every honor in sight. Wed last year in the Montserrat monastery to Spanish Tenor Bernabé Martí, whom she met while singing Madama Butterfly in Barcelona, she says, "I am probably the only Cio-Cio-San who ever married her Pinkerton...
...similarly put new life into Emory, once known as the "Coca-Cola college" because of its endowment by soft-drink tycoons. Since his arrival in Atlanta from Cornell (TIME, July 19, 1963), he has recruited a more dynamic faculty, launched a $25 million fund drive, raised admission standards and tuition. "If you're giving good education, there's no reason you shouldn't charge for it," he says...
...Temple University, the nation's largest private university after N.Y.U., into a "state-related" university after the pattern of Penn State. In return for state funds, Temple will admit a minority of state-appointed trustees to its otherwise private board and accept Pennsylvania students at relatively low tuition rates...
...salary increase will go into effect July 1 and will cost approximately $350,000 to $385,000. Ford said, however, that the added expense will not require an increase in tuition and that a decision against any increase for next year has already been made...