Education: Costs

Last week parents paid school term bills with a twinge at the expense and a wonder of their offsprings' futures. Teachers sighed over their final salary checks, for the study trip they could not afford. Alumni poured money into class funds, and school heads calculated how to ask for more.

Tuition. The most significant statement of the season was that of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He and his father have given more than a half billion dollars to general education, disease prevention and like social factors. They make no stint of their giving....

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