Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is a very practical solution of the educational problem of your young blades. If they must see La Bella Rand, it's cheaper to pay a boy's tuition at Harvard for four years than to pay the check if he goes to a Broadway night club...
...month, almost guarantee a defense force or airline flyer's job at the end of the course. Last week two other ways were introduced. Tennessee began sending out application blanks for five State schools, accommodating 500 ground pupils each, to be established at major airports. Tuition will be free to physically fit boys & girls over 16. And in the U. S. Senate, New Jersey's Democrat William H. Smathers put forward an $8,000,000 bill to provide 200 flying fields from coast to coast with airplanes, instructors, free schooling...
Collegiate rivalry for star athletes is a long-standing custom. But today competition between colleges for just plain students is so sharp that many institutions entice even nonathletic high school graduates with pictures of girls in bathing suits, offers of tuition rebates. One Indiana college went so far as to kidnap three freshmen from another institution, make them a better offer. The freshmen accepted...
...have the ability. Second is that there are too many sub-marginal institutions which cannot operate at a profit, and thus are unable to keep up their scholastic requirements and standards. The result is that many institutions practically guarantee a degree to any student who can pay four years tuition. Thus students, who can pay the price, go to college because it is the thing to do, or because it seems to hold the key to financial success in later life, and they spend four aimless years wasting their own and the college's time...
...excluded. This latter category often has fine abilities along different lines, other than the academic, and should not be allowed to waste their ability in work for which they are not suited. Universities which must lower their academic standards, in order to cater to as large a group of tuition-paying students as possible, harm the best interests of education and their country's welfare...