Word: harrises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A gathering hue and cry proclaims that the academic professionals have been subsidizing undergraduates for half a century. Although this theory has received its latest boost from Devereux Josephs' Committee on Education beyond High School, its inventor and leading local proponent is Seymour Harris, who should know better.
There was no substantiation of rumors heard in Amsterdam that Sukarno had been ousted by a triumvirate including Premier Djuanda and the chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Abdul Harris Nasution, and headed by Mohammed Hatta, former vice president and Sukarno's chief partner in the Indonesian revolution.
Harris, has spent the last six months examining the nation's educational problems. Writing in the United Press story, he predicted a 150 per cent increase in enrollment for public institutions and a 50 per cent increase for private institutions in the next fifteen years. These rises in enrollment, he...
The answer to rising educational costs said Harris, "lies in drastic changes in our methods of charging for a college education."
Harris predicted that unless public institutions raise their tuition fees, private institutions, forced to raise theirs, will attract only the wealthy student.