Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...county abruptly cut off tax levies for public schools, replaced them with the Prince Edward School Foundation-a "private" school system for about 1,400 white children, who took their lessons in churches and public halls. The foundation got state and county grants covering all of the tuition-except for $15 that parents were charged. Most of the county's 1,700 Negro children have gone without formal schooling for three years...
...addition, all students take a "vitamin" course in rhetoric and English composition. The weekly work load: 24 classes of 50 minutes each, plus at least 20 hours of studying. Only after a student is chosen does St. Paul's consider whether he is able to pay the $600 tuition. Help from business and foundations enables some students to pay as little...
...English or physics. Nor did anyone seem to care care whether she rounded off her four years by marrying an eligible Ivy Leaguer or by scuttling off to graduate school in quest of a Ph.D. No one, except her roommate writing a gen ed paper or her parents paying tuition, ever asked her to define her concept of women's education or describe her vision of woman's role in the world. In the fall of 1958, no one had yet suggested that Radcliffe's boundaries might extend beyond the residential Quadrangle on the North and the Harvard Houses...
...Koven was enrolled at the University of Cincinnati as a prodigy of 14, but he took his tuition money and decamped for Germany, where he dabbled in piano and composition and found his "love life crys tallized at 15" ("I made Don Juan and Casanova look like amateurs"). When his money ran out, his mother sent him the price of a ticket home. He gave up composition for painting, painting for newspaper work in New Jersey, finally drifted to WNYC, where "they've regretted it ever since. They can't stand me, but they can't fire...
City officials claim that the wife of a student living in university-owned housing often works and that one or more children attend city schools. The conflict has been resolved at other colleges by such measures as a college-paid tuition for students' children at city schools or by a regular payment for police and fire protection...