[Leica] Re: Harvard is left?

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

Jim is undoubtedly right, as the Harvard tuition in 1986 was $10,226 - My
college tuition, room, board and fees for my last year-  in 1970 at George
Washington U, an expensive school, hit $4700.


On 8/30/06 5:09 PM, "Jim Shulman" <jshul@comcast.net> wrote:

> Larry,
> 
> Are you sure about an $8000 Harvard tuition for 1950?  Just checked an
> historical chart of college tuitions, and saw that MIT was charging $800
> that year.  While Harvard may have been more expensive than MIT (crimson 
> dye
> ain't cheap), I doubt it was ten times more expensive.
> 
> However, probably not nearly so cheap as the lovelies you photographed <g>.
> 
> Jim Shulman
> Bryn Mawr, PA
> 
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> Lawrence
> Zeitlin
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> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Re: Harvard is left?
> 
> 
> On Aug 30, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Scott wrote:
> 
>>>> While the media seems to characterize Harvard as a "lefty"
>>>> place, it's actually a wonderful place to meet bright young
>>>> people who
>>>> are so RICH that they will *NEVER* have to work a day in their lives
>>>> (like most of their parents before them).
>>>> I recall 18 to 21 year old boys crying in the Dunster House
>>>> courtyard
>>>> the day the market crashed in '87, including Robert Ziff (largest
>>>> t-shirt
>>>> collection I ever saw), one of the heirs to the magazine fortune
>>>> (he and
>>>> his brothers sold it off - why concern themselves with mere
>>>> business?).
> 
> 
> Your Harvard and mine were quite different places. I went in the
> years just following WW2 when half of the student body was made up of
> vets using the GI Bill education benefits. Rather than wanting to
> revolutionize the system, they wanted to get their piece of it as
> soon as possible. The school was almost conservative in its outlook.
> Yale as well. That was the era of Bill Buckley at that lesser
> institution. My professors had actively aided the WW2 war effort and
> were proud of it. Chemistry Prof. Louis Fieser invented Napalm.
> George Kistakowski and others took a leave of absence to work on the
> atomic bomb. (They claimed it was a Sabbatical.) The room sized
> mechanical digital computer in the Aiken Computer lab earned its keep
> by calculating artillery trajectories. Harvard tuition at that time
> was $8000 a year. A princely sum but one that was affordable even
> under the GI Bill. I earned half my tuition taking pictures of the
> burlesque cuties in Sculley Square. A tough job for an 18 year old
> but someone had to do it.
> 
> Larry Z (Harvard '51)
> 
> 
> 
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