According to Edward, the threshold must be at least higher than the wages of textile workers and dockworkers in Thunder City, after all, he wants to nurture talents who can decide the future of the duchy.
If he is unfortunate enough to bet on the wrong person, and that talent he has high hopes for uses the spoon he fed them with, yet after forty years hasn't learned how to feed themselves...
It would imply that Thunder City University has educated an unsuccessful failure, or perhaps produced a "genius" who does not belong to this era.
In any case, the cost of this "bad debt" will be borne by the Campbell Royal Family, as it's not as if they can force an old beggar with nothing to his name.
Of course, these "academic privileges" are solely for the Campbell people born on this land.
After all, it was built with the war reparations paid by the Campbell nobles, not funded by the Imperial Royal Mint of Aus.
