Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cherington's "Aid for the Poor Student" makes excellent sense. There are many obstacles in the way of Harvard's adopting his principle of charging what the traffic will bear--in other words, charging those who can pay it with the full cost of tuition, and using all surplus funds to pay, if necessary, up to the full cost of the education of genuinely brilliant students. None the less some such solution is on the way. Few nowadays will defend the old-fashioned belief that a young man gains enough from the moral discipline of "working his way through...
...shorter period of time of the Extra Session permits a reduction of about 25 per cent in room and board expense, thus making an approximate cost of $1,000 for room, board, tuition and books for the seven months of school from January to August. A limited amount of financial assistance will be available to those men who are unable to defray all expenses from their own resources. This assistance includes various jobs about the School, in the Dining Halls and on the grounds, as well as the School loan Fund which is available to properly qualified students...
...East is concerned, is that the average monthly aid is $15 and the maximum amount a student may receive from Uncle Sam during the college year is $120. this is sizable money in the West and South where at state universities, a few hundred dollars pays for tuition, room and board. At most New England colleges it would not cover the tuition fee for the first semester, let alone other expenses! Although twenty-three Massachusetts institutions are co-operating in the plan, it is hard to see how their students will profit much by it. the varying effects...
...analysis of business and political events with reference to their influence on stock prices, will be published at regular intervals beginning with this issue. From time to time, also, the Crimson will present a few individual recommendations that seem to offer better than market opportunities to make or lose tuition fees...
Wellesley is this year charging students $500 instead of $600 for room & board, $500 instead of $400 for tuition. During Depression the college has added $2,500,000 to its endowment, acquired a majestic new administration building named Hetty Green Hall, a zoology laboratory, another co-operative dormitory and the beginnings of a physics & chemistry building which will be completed next autumn. All these are part of President Ellen Fitz Pendleton's longtime campaign to construct a handsome, Collegiate-Gothic "New Wellesley" out of the ashes of 1914. Now 70 and beginning her 23rd year as president, shy, deliberate...