Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those non-scholarship students who cannot afford more than they are now paying, or than it does for those students in high-schools throughout the country who will now be forced to abandon the idea of going to Harvard. Absolute necessity is the only thing that could force a rise in tuition in the face of this sentiment; and within the framework of the University's basic financial policies, that absolute necessity exists...
...essential framework within which the tuition rise must be considered is this: Harvard is run as a $200 million business, not as a humanitarian institution. It is a business policy of the University, for better or for worse, that each of the divisions, such as the Law School or the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, must operate within the limits of its own resources. The University itself, apart from any of the divisions, has an annual income of about $2 million, some of which is ordinarily used to absorb deficits shown in various relatively minor divisions, such as the library...
...student income can be increased. The first two have been attempted on almost every level. Such things as museum staff's and departmental budgets have been cut to the marrow, sometimes with unfortunate effects, as in the ease of the slash in tutorial. But the total costs continue to rise--employee wages and faculty salaries have gone up, as have heat, electricity, books, and so on up and down and throughout the list of necessary expenditures...
While final action must await a meeting of the Corporation on April 5, the CRIMSON estimated yesterday that tuition increases for undergraduates will approximate $110 per academic year, and that fees in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will also rise...
Necessity for the first such rise in 20 years, the Provost explained, results from two conditions...