[Leica] Harvard tuition

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

My guess is that it was $3500 per year...which would jibe with GW's being
$4700 in 1970. But $3500 was a lot of money in 1964, when a dollar was still
at least a fraction of a dollar.;-) But I think these things all happen for
a reason - like your ending up at Missouri - with a great J school...I
applied to Harvard but didn't get in - there or anywhere else I wanted to
go, having a pretty execrable high school record despite terrific college
board. So my choices were BU in Boston, or GW, in D.C., both of which were
then pretty sucky commuter schools. I decided that I didn't want to spend
four years staring across the Charles at Harvard, so I went to GW., which I
really knew nothing about...So by Feb. of my freshman year I'd landed a
part-time copyboy job at the Washington Post, and that lead to a reporting
job, etc. etc. Had I gone to BU, or Harvard, I doubt I'd have ever ended up
at the Post....So when all is said and done, I'm glad things worked out as
they did.....
How's that for a digression....? :-)



On 8/30/06 5:37 PM, "Craig Roberts" <crgrbrts@verizon.net> wrote:

> 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
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