常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

Free education to all

とうとう学費無料の高等教育機関の最後の砦が陥落しました。記事ではなく、写真の方ですが、be late toのところでもふれた「toの勢い」(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/A30/20130425/1366839582)。
ここもforではなく、toです。for allとto allではニュアンスの微妙な違いがありますが(辞書でチェックしましょう!)、直截的なことばを好むお国柄があらわれています。(UG)

         

When the trustees of Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art voted this week to start charging for an undergraduate degree, it ended the institution’s lengthy reign as the most famous tuition-free private college in America.

But it was never the only such place. While most colleges grapple with the growing burden of student debt, a few outliers across the country and even New York State offer a college education for the one price that looks good in any economy: nothing.

To qualify for Cooper Union’s largess, applicants had to prove themselves on the highest tier of the highest tier of academic or artistic achievement. That might strike some New Yorkers as easy compared with the requirements at some of the other free colleges.

One requires students to work on a ranch, milking cows and harvesting alfalfa. Another requires them to build a container ship. And the national service academies, of course, require years of service in support of a robust national defense.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/education/free-college-options-still-exist-for-those-willing-to-roll-up-sleeves.html?nl=nyregion&emc=edit_ur_20130425&_r=0