Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more Ivy League colleges, Brown and Columbia, have announced plans to raise tuition next fall. Officials at both schools have states that the increases will be used for faculty salaries. "Competition for faculty among educational institutions is great," declared Barnaby C. Keeney, president of Brown...
...Columbia's tuition will rise from $1100 to $1450; the increase at Brown is from $1250 to $1400. In addition, board rates in Providence will go up $50. With these increases, minimum pay for a full professor at Brown will be $11,000 per annum, which corresponds more closely to salary levels at other Ivy League schools...
...This is Columbia's third tuition rise in the last five years. Even so, President Grayson Kirk noted that before the latest addition tuition had covered only 40.5 per cent of the cost of attendance...
Died. Lyman Bryson, 71, longtime professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, who discussed the philosophers from the Greeks to Bertrand Russell over CBS radio beginning in 1938 (The People's Platform, Invitation to Learning), broadcast literate conversations with such contemporary thinkers as Arnold Toynbee and Albert Einstein; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Soft Cell. In Columbia, S.C., About Face, the newspaper published by the state penitentiary, ran a want ad: "Reporter for fast-growing biweekly in exclusive suburban area on historic Congaree River. No experience needed; will train for the specialized needs of the community; not much to work with, very little compensation, but there is a great deal of security attached...