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This proposal to hike charges has been advanced by Seymour E. Harris '20, chairman of the Department of Economics. Harris believes that tuitions should be doubled immediately, and the cost spread over a 20 to 40 year period through long-term loans...
While endorsing the principle of long-term loans, Goheen said that no Princeton student is ever likely to pay twice the present tuition. No student intent on learning should be denied a Princeton education because of financial need, he added...
...uniform rent were set above the 'break-even point,' this financial aid could come from a general House fund;" he continued. For instance, if a House could break-even on its maintainence costs by charging everyone $200 per term, it might set the rent at $250. The extra revenue would go into a fund, used to subsidize scholarship students who could not otherwise pay their rents...
Spry enough to savor a Texas-style barbecue, although no longer up to striking the daily "blow for liberty"-as a concession to the years, he manfully abandoned bourbon and stogies six weeks ago -weatherbeaten Elder Statesman John Nance Garner, longtime (1903-32) Texas Congressman, two-term (1933-41) Vice President, spruced up in a new blue suit and his old battered Stetson for a misty-eyed celebration of his goth birthday. On hand for the doings: some 3,000 of the home folks in dusty Uvalde, a loyal guard of political cronies, including ex-President Harry Truman, House Speaker...
...such a long term proposal as this, it is necessary to have a very clear and accurate crystal ball to estimate expenses and future conditions. Harris thinks that the current amount of loans needed is about a billion and a half dollars per year, and by 1970 about two and a half billion. The apparent enormity of the loans necessary does not rule out the plan on paper, whatever actual fund-raising difficulties (the University could attest that there are many) might be. When the general picture of American private debt is considered, however, these figures do not seem...