Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good degrees from reputable institutions, are more and more confused with holders of less reputable or even worthless degrees." In the South in particular, reported the Southern educator, graduate work is in chaos, with some colleges and normal schools even inventing new degrees in the fierce competition for tuition fees from graduate students...
...seven years of the G.I. bill, the U.S. spent almost $14 billion on the most ambitious educational experiment in its history. More than 8,000,000 veterans drew $9.7 billion in subsistence, and spent another $4 billion on tuition, equipment and counseling at 21,000 schools. Some G.I.s took advantage of the bill without going to school; 1,830,000 men were paid for on-the-job training, and 742,000 trained on farms...
...school expects the best of the child," she flatly declared). In 1936, she opened a second school-a new sort of nursery school that emphasized work as well as play; and by 1946, she had a third school in the San Fernando Valley for grades one to eight (tuition: $400 a year up to first grade; $600 thereafter...
...Best. The award is the creation of Emil Alvin Hartman, 57, founder and director of Manhattan'sFashion Academy. Now 34 years old, the Academy has about 100 students studying dress designing and allied subjects (tuition for the course: $2,520) in an ornate, five-story Fifth Avenue building, decorated more like a Renaissance palace than a school. In the past 17 years Hartman has handed out awards to about 50 companies for "exemplifying the best in American design." Sample winners: Ford, Motorola, Ronson lighters, General Electric (for a plastic furniture covering), Kaiser-Frazer, Elgin, Parker, United Air Lines...
...governor's gift put the school on its feet, and in 1718 it gratefully changed its name in his honor. By 1720, it had 43 students and a three-story house, painted blue. "I take very great content under my present tuition," wrote Student Jonathan Edwards that year, "as all the rest of the scholars seem...