Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Tuition at Harvard
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Wed Aug 30 20:33:22 2006
References: <200608302130.k7ULTvJ4040749@server1.waverley.reid.org>

On Aug 30, 2006, at 5:30 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> 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>.
>>


All I can plead is a "Senior Moment,"  I was on a Bausch and Lomb  
scholarship and never paid my tuition directly. The $8000 must have  
been my entire year's living expenses. It probably includes my losses  
in the nightly poker games. Those ex-GIs took no prisoners.

Larry Z