Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administration is now considering adoption of a Yale-sponsored $10 student application fee, designed to meet spiralling admissions costs. University Hall would justify the fee on the ground that this is an era of multiple applications. Because so many students apply to Harvard but never attend, the University apparently feels that they should help bear the cost of processing applications...
...fact that Dean Bender has mentioned the plan to several Harvard Club officials seemed to indicates the College is definitely planning to join Yale and Princeton in requiring the fee. Yale's Admissions Committee has already recommended this move to its Corporation...
...Unless we can get waivers, I shall put up a strong protest," Peddle continued. "we shall be seriously hurt because our strength has been in attracting boys from the small towns. We handle them almost entirely by mail, and a $10 fee would be quite a handicap in attracting them...
...Denver, James A. More Jr. '26 chairman of the schools committee the Rocky Mountain Harvard Clubs and the plan "sounds fantastic. I'm against it. If a student has get to pay a $10 fee, it will look as though Harvard is saying, 'We'll rather you did not apply'." He estimated such a plan would cut applications from the Denver area by 40 percent...
...Birmingham, Alabama, Herbert M. Warren '13, former vice-president for the Associated Harvard Clubs of the South, also warned that a fee "will hurt us in the long run. The whole idea of Harvard's program is to get people from all parts of the country. It is not going to help a bit by charging $10 to apply...