Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Donald Peddie '41, chairman of the Minneapolis Harvard Club Schools Committee, and perhaps the College's leading Mid-Western recruiter, yesterday joined other Harvard Club officials in the Far West and South in warning that the imposition of a $10 student application fee would greatly handicap recruiting work...
Peddle said Dean Bender had already warned him that such a fee might go into effect for 1956, but that he hoped it would be possible to obtain waivers from the ruling for special students...
Imposition of a $10 fee would mean that any prospective Harvard, Yale, or Princeton student would have to pay at least $22 and as much as $29 to apply to one college. Secondary school students already pay $12 to take the College Boards Examination, and are required to pay another $6 to take a practice exam in the junior year. Added to this expense, the College Scholarship Service, instituted this year, is charging $1 to handle each application for financial assistance...
Both Bundy and Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of Admissions, insisted, however, that, if adopted, the fee would be used only to meet budgetary needs. Among the Big Three Harvard, led by Dean Bender, has long been the strongest opponent of any such plans to place restrictions upon applicants...
...definitely object to the imposition of such a fee," Bender stated. "It would cut down our applications just where we don't want it to. It would tend to discourage the boy in the lower income bracket from applying. But we have to balance this consideration against the need of saving say $40,000 a year which could be plowed into other worthwhile needs...