I just read an article in this week’s Rice News about how our great Openstax project is saving students money on textbooks and I immediately remembered this clipping from the start of fall semester in 1961. I found it years ago and scanned it for no particular reason, a decision which has now turned out very nicely for me.
$54.06 was a pretty good chunk of change in 1961. You don’t want to know what the prices look like these days.
Bonus:
