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...labor boss, Harry Bridges) was only nine when his father, a Maine farmer and storekeeper, died. "Upon my father's death," Bridges once said, "I worked the farm and met the responsibilities of manhood through my youth." At the University of Maine he earned his board and tuition by milking cows at the agricultural college; later he helped send a younger sister and brother through college. In 1920 he moved to New Hampshire as an agricultural instructor with the state university's extension staff and an expert on crops and soil conservation for the state government...
...fulltime professors, top schools of law and Eastern European studies, an annual budget of $7,500,000. As their part, West Berlin taxpayers cough up 2½ times more per student than West Germans contribute to their own universities. Free University students (one-third girls) pay about $50 tuition per semester, and 30% of them have full scholarships. They are a happy lot, inclined toward U.S. jazz and blue jeans, and their main need is for more housing. Says one official: "We must build, build, build...
Lush & Cool. Opened in 1912 after complex litigation, Rice is so rich (net worth: $101 million) that it charges no tuition, and so picks only top students. Long mistaken for a pure engineering school, Rice in fact is a fount of the humanities. Though Rice students endure Math 100, a required trial in orderly thinking, the majority wind up in liberal arts...
...Rice for 34 years, gave way in 1946 to an impressive successor, Caltech Physicist William V. Houston (pronounced How-ston v. the city of Hew-ston). No backslapping money raiser, Researcher Houston had a dream financial setup going for him. Though it may some day require students to pay tuition, Rice grows fatter on oil income by the year. It never even badgers alumni for cash. When emergencies arise, Rice simply turns to its rich friends and trustees...
...Tuition at Pussycat is $100 for a ten-session curriculum. After such basic, required courses as The History and Theory of the Striptease and The Psychology of Inhibitions, girls can major in everything from Applied Sensual Communication to Dynamic Mammary, Navel, and Pelvis Rotation. The entire faculty is Sally Marr, 52, mother of four-letter Comedian Lenny Bruce. With knowledgeability gained during her career as a tank nightclub comedienne, Professor Marr lectures her pupils: "Keep your eyes on the audience at all times. Learn how to look at one man and take your clothes off for him. Not too much...