Word: bursars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alleviation of this condition would cause an administrative upheaval. A long standing rule of the Corporation that tuition must be paid in advance prevents the Bursar's Office from extending the deadline. Nor can the Bursar's Office send bills home before the term begins, as it must await information from the Registrar as to the precise amount of the bill, information which in many cases arrives barely in time for the bill to be crammed into the registration envelope...
There was one thing to be done. The Bursar had announced in his usual insolent tone that you couldn't graduate without paying the last bill, and that home addresses "must" be registered "in writing" before you dared leave. He always dreaded the various scrapes with administrative edges that were scattered through Harvard. After the Bursar he turned up in the check-cashing line at the Coop but that, too, was unnecessary, he remembered. One more day in Cambridge...
...Bursar R. V. Perry could not be reached last night to disclose University action in the emergency. It was predicted by V. A. officials that the checks would be in students' hands well before the June 4 deadline of the next bill on undergraduates' agenda...
Three weeks after every University billing, some 400 men get the jolt of their lives from the Bursar. A notice, worthy of an absconding "guest," informs them that they have three days to pay their account with attendant fine, or face possible "disciplinary action." Unless they care to read the fine print on their term bills this is their first warning of the drastic methods Harvard uses against its debtors. One contact is enough to send most men scurrying to Lehman Hall...
...next term bill will be issued on May 28, and will be payable and due June 4. As with previous bills, these will go to students at their college addresses unless notice of any address change reaches the Bursar before May 15. Notification in writing is required to make the change final...