Word: restrictionists
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Quantity vs. Quality. Why the "restrictionist" policy at Harvard? Surely one reason, and an important one, is the emphasis on quality. In this connection, the following observation is of some interest. In the thirties is used to be said that Harvard had to scrape the bottom of the barrel in order to admit a normal size class. Now we hear that we have several times as many good applicants as we can admit...
...reader may by now guess that I am moving in the general direction of a restrictionist program. Rumors of a rise of tuition have been circulating. It is clear that tuition rises in the last 25 years have been substantially below the gain in real income per capita. But a rise in tuition may result in a decline of quality if not accompanied by restrictions of entry...
Harris gave several reasons for a "restrictionist" policy on the enrollment of the College. He pointed out that "historically, Harvard has tended to increase its enrollment much less than other colleges in the nation." A restricted admissions policy can foster "improving quality" in the student body, he added. Harris also noted that "rumors of a rise in tuition have been circulating," and asserted that such a cost increase "may result in a decline of quality if not accompanied by restrictions of entry...
Since the war, the C.I.O. has cleaned out its Communists. The A.F.L. has moved further and further from its old restrictionist craft-union pattern. (Lewis and his miners had long since departed.) Politically, the two groups had little to argue about. The A.F.L. had abandoned its old political independence, and the C.I.O. had stopped its flirtation with the idea of a labor party. Both A.F.L. and C.I.O. had become adjuncts of the Democratic Party, although many members-perhaps 33% of those who voted-went Republican...