Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shocking that people who have not paid tuition should have the effrontery to walk across college campuses, sit in student unions, saunter into classrooms and ask questions of professors [June 25]. What is the matter with them? Don't they know they can't get a degree that way? How dare these beatniks question the very purpose of a university! (Next, they'll be challenging the worth of grades.) How dare they dawdle away precious years in the idle pursuit of understanding and self-knowledge, when out in the world there is profit to be made...
...Leap. The son of a struggling New York farmer, Russell Sage left home when he was twelve to work in a grocery store in Troy. He had already decided he would be the richest man in the world, spent one-third of his $4 monthly salary for night-school tuition, and read every book he could find. By 15, he was principal moneylender to the gilded youth of Troy...
...judgment, Litchfield made Pitt a more respected school-to the point that many Pittsburgh-area residents criticize it as too choosy about whom it will admit, and too costly: tuition has nearly tripled, from $537 in 1954 to $1,400 now. When Litchfield arrived, Pitt had 561 full-time faculty members, 56% with Ph.D.s, for its 16,141 students. Today its faculty numbers 1,091, and 84% have Ph.D.s, for a student body that is only about a thousand bigger. Faculty salaries have nearly doubled, averaging $12,126, and the percentage of out-of-state students has grown from about...
...year that tuition was raised from $150 to $200, the CRIMSON put forth the bold suggestion that college goodies exchange brooms for vacuum cleaners, "Which sort the particles out of the very depths of one's Axminster for good...
...were dubious about sending their little boy to a school 2,500 miles away. But after a lecture from Lew on Los Angeles' balmy climate and healthy attitude toward Negroes, they untied the apron strings. At U.C.L.A., Lew will get just what N.C.A.A. rules' allow: room, board, tuition, and $15 per month "laundry money...