Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After months of controversy and careful consideration, the Corporation has finally been obliged to raise the tuition fee for all Cambridge departments of the University except the Law School to two hundred dollars. Objections have been raised, but none of the critics could propose any other feasible way in which to obtain the needed funds. It was rightly felt that any reduction in the quality of instruction was not to be considered...
...conditions brought to light by the report of the Faculty Committee on the tuition fee make evident the necessity of some drastic change in the finances of the University. The committee reports that for the last six years the annual expenditure has exceeded the income by about $43,000. Until now, this has been met from the unrestricted funds. Obviously this process cannot continue indefinitely. For this situation, there are three solutions. Either large gifts must be secured promptly, or the equipment of the University must be cut down, or the tuition fee must be raised. No one, upon serious...
...most serious objections to the raise in the tuition fee have been based upon a plea for curtailing expenses, particularly in the Graduate School. It is claimed that this department will receive by far the greater benefit from the increase. Examination of the facts will show that this is not the case. Princeton and Yale both have much lower fees for their graduate schools than for the college. Harvard alone charges a uniform fee. Yet the benefits undergraduates derive from the Graduate School are apparent enough. They take part in a large number of graduate courses; they receive a quality...
...only grounds on which the University can hold its own against these institutions is in the quality of instruction. Against their low prices and state support, the University must oppose at least an equally good equipment and a more capable faculty. To bring this about, a raise in the tuition fee seems the only solution...
...last session, the State Legislature authorized the Board of Education to investigate the subject of founding such a university. The Alumni Bulletin immediately took up the subject in an editorial. Recently the question has figured prominently in the discussions by Phi Beta Kappa on the raise in the tuition fee. Now the Illustrated announces a series of articles on the subject, the first of which appears in the current issue...