Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carlson study medicine so that he might help others similarly mauled by birth. Yale Medical School accepted the student, reluctantly. How would he be able to perform his hospital duties? Professor Frederick Tilney, Columbia University neurologist, promised a job at the Neurological Institute upon graduation. "Bud" Stillman helped pay tuition and maintenance expenses. Medical Student Carlson had saved some money from his own earnings...
...Stanford University, where 60% of the men and 20% of the women work. Depression this year decreased student earnings by one-third. Fifteen percent of the Stanford student body paid tuition this year with notes instead of cash. Recently the university community raised $1,200 to provide employment for students, chiefly on improvements to the grounds...
Princeton University this year aided 527 of its 2,200 students with $175,000 in loans and scholarships. Some 26% of the students are full or part-time workers. The trustees have decreed that a ruling previously affecting applicants for tuition loans, shall also apply to those seeking scholarships: "An applicant's style of living must be such as to justify his request for financial aid. . . ." This may deter many from joining upperclass eating clubs...
...earn about 76% of their total expenses. No one is too poor to enter. A 16-year-old is not too young; a 63-year-old not too aged. Students are supposed to have $17 for room & board for the first term, but one girl was admitted with 63?. Tuition costs nothing. Berea's deficits are made up by subscriptions, endowments, sale of student products. There are many friends, locally and elsewhere. In Manhattan last week Berea was seeking new friends and patrons, with an exhibition-its first-of products of the college's nine saleable student industries...
...rate is possible, according to Mr. Endicott, because the $450,000 loss in income from endowments has been met by "income on capital gifts . . . the income of which has not already been allotted." He fails to mention, however, that the money received from the students in the form of tuition and payment for food is still the same amount as received before the depression. The value of the dollar having risen considerably, the students then, are actually paying more now than before the depression; they are helping to offset the deficit in the income from endowments. In other words...