An interesting observation. When I first started my college attendance, full tuition for all credits taken was $50. per semester. In a couple of years or so the GI bill was instrumental in the change for state schools to start charging for each credit hour taken as private schools were getting more from Uncle Sam than the state schools. The practice hung on and the state schools marched steadily onward and upward with their fees and credit hour charges. Even so, the GI Bill only provided $500. a year to those greedy institutions who got the maximum.
When I started school on GI Bill I got a whole $65. per month out of which I had to pay $20 for a room and $30. for meals at a boarding house. That left me the awesome sum of $15. a month for catting around, dating, clothes, toothpaste and other essentials. CORdially, Paul Mansur > > Pete Exline's description of the 'olden days' was fun. > > Maybe the olden days really were the 'good old days.' > I was teaching at a little private college in Kentucky during > the late 70s until 1984. Our band was very small, only one > horn, no trombones, a couple of clarinets, etc. No orchestra > existed. Yet one day while rummaging in some file cabinets > I ran across a school program from the early 50s. The 55 piece > orchestra in the cover photo had played Scheherezade on > the evening's program. > > What had happened over the intervening years?!! I'm not sure. > I did learn, however, that all those students were on FULL > SCHOLARSHIP. A full scholarship was $350.00, which just > happened to exactly equal the 'activity grant' that the students > are still getting today. The aid amount never went any higher > during those years, while tuitions, however, had gone up > to about $14,000 a year. > > Go figure. > > Bob Dickow > Lionel Hampton School of Music > ---------- > > From: Wendell L Exline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: horn@music.memphis.edu > > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Beginning Methods > > Date: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:31 PM > > > > Hi Paul, > > > > Your message about the "olden days" was fun. How familiar it all > > sounded. My 7th grade band had eight "horns" in the section. > ><snip> > > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/p_mansur1%40comcast.net _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
