Education: Markup

Never before had so many men & women wanted to go to college; and never before had the price of a College education been higher. Last week, the U.S. Office of Education reported that tuition in private colleges and universities had jumped 27% and in state universities 29% since 1939. Tuition in law schools is up 46%. Warned the Office of Education: when the U.S. Government stops ladling out millions of dollars under the G.I. Bill of Rights, colleges will either have to cut their prices, or accept only the well-to-do students.

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