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...Harvard tuition increase is the first hike since an even greater rise three years ago. At that time, the fall of 1961, the tuition was raised from $1250 to $1520, the present figure. The new increase will go into effect at the begining of the fall term...
This difference reflects a larger discrepancy between the two versions. To show his state of congenital wretchedness, Voltaire makes Candide a bastard; Carbonnaux makes him an Alsatian. The countries Voltaire mentions only symbolize universal evils hike treachery and regicide. Carbonnaux specifically attacks Germany, Russia, Farouk, Argintina and imperialists. Voltaire describes imaginary places, like Eldorado; Carbonnaux invents nothing. Voltaire was inspired by the earthquake in Lisbon, a natural disaster; Carbonnaux announces that he was inspired by the bombing of Hiroshima...
With legislation that would authorize a billion dollars for college classrooms closer to passage than ever before, NDEA--with annual appropriations of $90 million--seems pretty small potatoes. It was not a program to hike teachers' salaries or raise new and gleaming schoolhouses across the land; these goals, although admirable, require big league expenditures. NDEA's objectives were more modest, but in its own way the program has abetted a quiet revolution in American education...
Robert J. Maguire, Radcliffe comptroller, said Radcliffe had been forced to raise its rates because of Harvard's tuition hike. Since Radcliffe gives most of its tuition dollar to Harvard, both schools must charge the same amount, he explained...
...keep on spending. Fall is traditionally the time of back-to-school sales and of buying that has been put off in the summer months. Next month, when the new $1.25 federal minimum-wage law goes into effect, 2,600,000 workers will get a 10?-an-hour wage hike. Should there also be a tax cut passed by Congress (see THE NATION), the consumer's dollar votes may give the U.S. economy the push that it needs to send it whirling into...