Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Evidence of how gravely President Marchand believes the country needs him this year is that there will be twelve "capitals" this season instead of the usual six. Tuition for new members is $20; old-timers can re-enter for a session at $5. Average age of N. U. S. entrants is 35; 75% of them are men. Each
...gives the wisest answers. Nine years ago he compiled for his prospective employes a list of puzzlers which provided table talk in U. S. homes for weeks afterward. Last year he gathered 49 handpicked boys just graduated from their high schools, offered a prize of expenses and tuition to any college for four years to the one who did best in an examination he submitted to them (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929). Last week 49 more boys journeyed to West Orange, N. J., to compete in the second annual Edison Scholarship Contest. Theoretically each was the brightest boy in his State...
Increasingly has the policy of a "pay-as-you-go" education found favor among eastern private colleges. Among institutions which have recently raised or will soon raise their tuitions are: Yale, Princeton, Bryn Mawr, M. I. T. Added to this list last week was Vassar. Effective in 1931, parents of Vassar girls will pay $1,200 a year for their daughters' tuition and living expenses at Poughkeepsie, an increase of $200. Town girls will be charged a tuition fee of $500. Trustees explained that the college's additional income will relieve "the strain on overburdened endowments," "pay better...
...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...