Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking for a reason, Brown's Director of Admission Charles Doebler complained that "publicity about tough admissions has backfired." Other officials blamed rising tuition, $200-$300 in the Ivy League this recession year. But Amherst's Dean of Admission Eugene S. Wilson echoed the majority opinion: "More realistic counseling." High school seniors are weighing their own qualifications more carefully and rejecting colleges that they think will reject them...
...explanation for the crowded conditions in the Houses this year is that 65 commuters unexpectedly requested residence on campus. Leighton speculates that the tuition increase might shift at least 50 students back into the commuter class. "That would clear up the whole problem...
...Boys in the West know that the University is interested in diversity, including geographic diversity," and this has helped to counteract the scare created by recent magazine articles. Cotton said that because of the University's scholarship policies, the tuition increase has not cut the number of applications for next year's class...
Secretary of the Faculty committee appointed last December to inquire into the size of the College, Pattullo maintained that a decrease in the number of students would necessitate an increase in both room rates and tuition fees...
Fred L. Glimp '50, Dean of Admissions, agreed with Pattullo that it would probably be very difficult to reduce the size of the College to the extent that Bullitt suggested. "Harvard has a budget," Glimp said, "and if we lose the tuition from 100 students, we will lose a great deal of necessary income...