Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prices of everything in the country have been going up, but the spectacular 56 per cent rise in tuition (it was $800 a year when '58 entered, went to $1,000 for the last two years and will rise to $1,250 next year) was as startling a leap as any. The increases were occasioned by a frantic haste to recoup for faculty salaries the comparative losses they had suffered since before the war, and in each year of '58's residence there was some sort of faculty salary increase, either direct or indirect...
...tuition increases did not pay for all these benefits, of course, and a $45 million gift from the Ford Foundation helped considerably, but it is easier to raise tuition than contributions, and it was made clear that the latest increase was not the last for the near future...
...parents gathered for the graduation of their children, there was only the usual low rustle of voices as Green, the only senior among the nine Negroes who entered Central High last September, got his diploma. Prospect for Scholar Green: four years of study at Michigan State under a full-tuition scholarship, leading to work...
...Tuition costs have worked out at about 50? a lesson for each student. The parents do not feel they are rebelling against the school system. Instead, they recognize the limits of their project, hope that the public schools will eventually take over the after-school classes...
...quitting the campus, says Wilt hopefully. But other well-paid college stars will wonder at his disclaimers of a decent salary at Kansas. More than 200 colleges bid for the privilege of paying Wilt to study in their classrooms. If Kansas offered only the approved room, board, tuition and $15 a month for laundry, it is hard to see why a cash-conscious young man like Wilt chose a college so far from home...