Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deans Ford and Glimp yesterday gave firm verbal assurances that scholarship money would be increased enough "to cover fully" the effect of the new single rent rate going into effect next year...
Glimp said that while stipends might not in every case be increased exactly the amount of the added rent charges, he felt confident "no student would be forced to leave Harvard College for financial reasons." He noted that improvements in family financial positions and normally increased student earnings would in some cases help students now paying less than the new standard rent--$255 per term--to meet the figure...
Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assistant Dean of the Faculty for Administrative Affairs, explained that the new rent adjustment fund, created by charging students $5 per year more than the College actually needs to operate the House system, will be used to help those students not receiving scholarship aid but having difficulty in paying the standard rent...
...scoffed at the "notion that many people will be hurt by the new rent," pointing out that of the 1350 students now paying less than $510 a year, "63 per cent of the increases will be $60 or less...
Defending the rent decision, Ford said he doubted it could create serious financial problems for students but would eliminate some of the "haggling" over rooms that now plagues the Masters. He called the unanimous approval given the plan by the Masters as "uncommon phenomenon...