Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Athlete. Eleven members of the freshman football squad appointed a spokesman-Carrol Robinson of Salem, N. J., crack tackle-to present to Coach James Ebenezer Pixlee their demands: that the wages which they earned as janitors, watchmen, waiters be given to them for spending money, that their board and tuition to which their earnings are normally applied be given them gratis. Coach Pixlee, unable to meet their requests, was considerably embarrassed when the cream of his team walked...
...sufficient interest to inspire interest. With the present methods of graduate study, students will continue to be inflicted with the perfunctory teaching of a man, whose interests and talents lie wholly in his special field of research, and who considers his teaching only as a means of paying his tuition...
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...