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...often big business. Before becoming a federal judge, New York Lawyer Harold Medina crammed 800 students for $28,000 a year. Medina's heir, New York's nonprofit Practising Law Institute, is now the biggest cram school, with three yearly sessions enrolling 1,800. At $75 tuition, it is also one of the cheapest. By contrast, the California Bar Review Course charges $175 and grosses more than $400,000 a year...
...campus, on the slopes of Mt. Ida, near Troy, centers on a quadrangle of neo-Gothic dorms and classrooms mostly donated by Alumna Mrs. Russell Sage (wife of a millionaire investor), a library with 19,000 volumes, hockey fields, riding stables, a gymnasium with swimming pool and bowling alleys. Tuition and board costs $3,000, and optional charges (piano lessons, for example) can raise the bill by another $ 1,000. Yet Emma Willard is not a rich school; the endowment per pupil is $2,500, compared to $11,400 for Miss Porter's in Connecticut. Emma Willard took...
...inordinate delays" in Prince Edward County, which closed its public schools in 1959 rather than integrate them. Since then, white children have been educated by the "private" Prince Edward School Foundation. Now supported largely by parental donations, the foundation was helped along by a system of state and county tuition grants until 1961, when a district court ruled that such grants were illegal so long as the public schools remained closed. Negro children, who for four years had virtually no education at all, now have a temporary school system, paid for mostly by out-of-state donations. Since every other...
Prince Edward County also had some leeway. Since the Supreme Court ruling on the subject of tuition grants limited itself to pronouncing them illegal when part of a school-closedown program, county supervisors could presumably reopen the public schools for Negroes and any whites who wanted to attend -and then resume their old practice of providing funds to help the white-only foundation schools. To settle this issue will take another long battle through the state and federal courts...
...that time, Radcliffe Comptroller Robert J. Maguire said, "Our money goes to pay for our share of instruction and library fees, but there are also other costs involved that are not clearly defined. I couldn't really say just what the tuition money we turn over to Harvard is supposed to cover...