Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government pays one-third of the bill; the rest comes from private groups. The Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants runs the program, selects the students and pays their fare. In return, Russia provides full tuition, plus stipends of $166 a month-five times the standard allowance for Russian university students...
Scholarship grants in 1959 totalled $1,253,000. The 1953 figure was $675,000, while in 1948 Harvard College scholarships totalled $480,000. Despite this growth scholarships largely kept pace with the rise in tuition, and the income of scholarship holders' families has been rising. Last year it averaged...
...country sort of person who likes boys," is famous for second chances: "If a boy needs to be expelled, he needs even more to stay here." Even bigger (630) Lawrenceville, in New Jersey, tackles size with a house system that keeps same-age students together for eating, sleeping, studying. Tuition hits $3,000 a year, but boys easily slide into Princeton, where Lawrenceville has more freshmen than any other school. Bigness is solved at Indiana's Culver Military Academy (840 boys), now a topkick prep school, by insisting that "discipline is essential to the learning process...
...called "St. Grottlesex"* schools are supposedly ultra-swank as well as churchy (Episcopal). Yet Kent treats its 292 boys like poverty-vowing lay brothers. They make beds, wait tables, scrub floors, do K.P., and the consequent saving is passed on in the form of sliding-scale tuition. Despite its monasticism, Kent recently opened a "coordinate" school for 200 girls, who even attend some classes with boys...
Next year Exeter's tuition will rise to $2,100, topping Andover's, partly because it spends more for instruction-it has fewer students per teacher. It also boasts more Westinghouse winners (twelve) than Andover, and this month it topped all U.S. schools in National Merit Scholarship finalists: 73 to Andover...