Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summing up the changes announced for next year, Dean Hanford pointed out that the "fixed charges" for a student in one of the Houses are now considerably less than $1,000 per year, with tuition at $400, board at about $300, and the less expensive rooms ranging from...
Under the present economic conditions the University has good reasons for continuing the temporary student employment for men living in the Houses, even if it has to use its own unrestricted funds. It is probable that without such a continuation there might occur a considerable decrease in tuition fees due to men dropping out for financial reasons. It must be remembered that while the University may be paying out $300 to an employed student, it is at the same time taking in at least $600 from the majority of these men for tuition, board, or lodging. Moreover, any appreciable dropping...
...christened Byron Patton Harrison but Pat has become his common-law name. At Louisiana University he earned his tuition as a mess hall waiter while pitching on the college baseball team. Later he taught school, studied law, served as a local district attorney and, at 29, was elected to the House. In 1918 he performed a political miracle by defeating notorious James Kimble Vardaman for the Senate and taking over the seat once occupied by Jefferson Davis. His first ten years in a Republican Senate were ones of irresponsible fun at the expense of the G. O. P. He teased...
...save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive tuition (or, at all events, of pleasant recreation) for downright idiots...