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Stipend: One thousand dollars

JUL 01, 1948
One thousand dollars a year for half‐time teaching—that is all many graduate students get while they work for their doctorates. How is it done, and at what cost to them?
Nathan L. Nichols

How can a man, with a wife and three children, and no GI benefits, work for a doctor’s degree and live on the one thousand dollar salary earned by half‐time teaching? It sounds impossible, but by canny control of the purse strings, and by keeping roomers, my wife and I are managing.

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