Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...income of the American college is normally derived from three sources: first, the fees of students; second, the income from endowment; third, annual contributions made by graduates, supporters and other friends. The fees of students have continued to rise. Perhaps the most outstanding instance is the increase of the tuition fee of Massachusetts Institute of Technology from $400--a high level--to $500. Accompanying the announcement of this increase is made the statement that the annual cost of educating each student at "tech" is no less than $850. There are, in the United States, between 400 and 500 colleges which...
Harvard University students interested in aeronautics will have an opportunity to compete for four scholarships with a total tuition value of $7,100 offered by W. E. Boeing, an outstanding figure in American aviation. Notice of the establishment of these scholarships, which are effective at the Boeing School of Aeronautics at Oakland, California, has been received by the administrative officials of Harvard University...
...will be similar in all respects to that given during the regular academic year. Course credit will not be given for this work, but undergraduates desiring to carry on tutorial studies in this way will be required to register in the Summer School, and will be charged the tuition...
...students in other universities as well as in Harvard, and the decision will be made by the Scholarship Committee of the club. On the application blanks, which may be obtained in University 5, the committee states that the scholarships are awarded for a period of one year, to cover tuition and that recipients must file new applications annually in order to be considered candidates for the succeeding year...
Maurice Barrymore paid his son John's tuition at the Art Student's League, Manhattan, because John showed no talent for the family profession of acting, wanted instead to" be an artist. He went to the Art Student's League only once and worried about what his father would say when he heard about it. Maurice Barrymore said: "I can't understand how you happened to go once." When he made his first stage appearance as Max in a Chicago performance of Magda he was mentioned by one reviewer who said: "Barrymore walked about the stage...