Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Profesors must have demanded smaller salaries in those days, though, because in the 1600's tuition was only about 15 per cent of total college cost. Food took the most from the student's pocket--averaging six pounds five shillings per year, or five times as much as tuition. But at most meals students paid only for what they ate, and poor students often lived on half as much food as their rich friends...
...path led through the College of the City of New York and on to Harvard Law School. How could a young man from the Lower East Side go to Harvard? The tuition was only $150 a year then, Frankfurter once explained, and "you could live on very little." Frankfurter reached the top of his class, got into a leading New York City law firm after graduation. But he soon gave that up to serve under Henry...
...system. In the universities, Afro-Asians account for a scant 5% of the 10,000 students, though they now represent 54% of Israel's Jewish population. Moreover, few Afro-Asians can afford to attend high schools; though Ben-Gurion is pushing free schooling, most parents must shell out tuition fees of some $200 a year. The problem is most acute in the elementary schools, where Afghans, Yemenites, Moroccans and Iraqis make up 55% of the first-grade population, but dwindle to 27% by the eighth grade. Warned the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz last week: "We must now plan our educational...
Litchfield has other problems. His eleven-month "trimester plan," now copied by some 30 other colleges, tends to stumble along at half-speed in the summer. He has raised tuition by a whopping 50%, so that undergraduate enrollment is down considerably...
...taking on a federal project, the university incurs extra costs-more heating, lighting, cleaning, postage, additional teachers to replace researching faculty men. Since the Government pays only part of these extra costs, the university must dip into tuition and endowment...