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There was published in today's CRIMSON a communication attacking a plan suggested a short time ago for the support of the projected infirmary. This plan was to provide an adequate yearly income for the infirmary by making an additional charge of $5.00 upon the term bill of each student. The arguments used against it were based upon the fact that under such a system the many would be paying for the few; that there are many who go home in case of illness, a number who, having plenty of money, would prefer not to go to the infirmary...
...even admitting these arguments, it seems to me that this plan would be a more advantageous and much surer means of support than any other that has yet been suggested. It was suggested that an assessment of a dollar a year upon every student in the University resident in Cambridge, and further a dollar a day for every day's residence in the infirmary beyond five days, might raise a sufficient income. Would not this be very uncertain as a means of support, however? One year it might provide sufficient funds another it might not, and the Corporation, never being...
Another plan which has been proposed is that of forming a student's aid association to divide the infirmary expenses of its members. The trouble with this as with all voluntary schemes would be, that feeling no present need of an infirmary the majority of students would not take the trouble to join the association, and the Corporation, having nothing to count on, would have to over-charge non-members or run short for the year. Even if successful, would not the same objection hold true here as in the $5.00 a year scheme? Here again the majority would...
...raise a sum entirely adequate for the yearly expenses of the infirmary, and surely no true Harvard man, be he a resident of Cambridge or San Francisco, would raise objections about paying a small sum for what he does not get, if by so doing he benefits a fellow student. There is another point which very few men realize, and this is that, were it not for the income the Corportion derives from its private property, the charges now made for tuition and for rooms in the college buildings would fall very far short of a sum sufficient...
...communication, published in another column, favoring the plan of charging each student resident in Cambridge five dollars a year toward the support of the proposed infirmary, is a very thorough discussion of the best means for meeting the expenses of a college hospital...