Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was accepted for admission to Harvard in 1964 but was unable to attend for financial reasons. Even with a miniscule scholarship (scaled, apparently, to my academic achievements) tuition was still -- if I recall -- an astronomical $3,500 per semester (though I may have that figure entirely wrong). For my middle-class parents, this was beyond all means or reason and the upper limit of my ability to support myself, as I soon learned, was about $1.65 an hour. Besides the inordinate expense, Mom and Dad argued, they were not keen for me to be "brainwashed by the Commie teachers" in Cambridge. So, I matriculated (among other things) at the $200-a-semester University of Missouri where I became a Commie journalist (and was issued a nifty Rolleiflex MX-EVS for a semester). Craig Washington, DC