Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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"The hope to meet the increasing need by receiving increased endowments is natural, and in view of the immense sums recently given to new Western colleges, one wonders why the oldest is by comparison overlooked, but is there not a possible source of income, in the increase of students fees...
"The fee in the Medical School is $200. Technology charges $200 and both are over-crowded. Why should Lawrence Scientific charge only $150? Surely the lower fee is not a confession of inferiority.
"Suppose the tuition of 3000 students was raised to $200; this would give an income of $150,000 equivalent to an increased endowment of $5,000,000 at current rates of interest.
"Would this increase keep away from the College any considerable number of desirable students? This is a question which perhaps the College officials can answer, perhaps can only be settled by experiment.
"If in spite of the recent large increase in scholarship funds, increased fees would bar out students of small means, could not the difficulty be met by creating a number of University scholarships of fifty dollars each, or to put it in another way, the faculty could be authorized to...