Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scholarship applications for the 1953-54 academic year have been reopened to take care of students "feeling the pinch" of the recent tuition rise, John U. Monro '34, head of the Financial Aid Center, announced yesterday...
Monro indicated that approximately 1100 students had filed blanks. He emphasized, however, that none of those students who have turned in blanks need bother to make corrections because of the tuition increase...
...particular maneuver it has invented. Inflation has probably become perennial. Whether or not this is bad for the country at large it is obviously bad for endowed institutions. Therefore, the only honest solution is austerity. As long as we try to race the system by raising the tuition, we are being dishonest...
...seem to acquiesce to the stale view that the ideal of a good education is only attainable by means of more and more outlay. We decide, for example, that athletes have their place in a perfect educational scheme, so we include a further subsidy to that department in a tuition rise that is serious enough in itself. Could we perhaps get along with fewer coaches, with a less elaborate program, and in this way make it easier for students to get a Harvard education? Similarly, is maid-service or education at a reasonable price more important? Is it more important...
...healthy to have to make such a choice. Whether or not that is true, choice is the lot of the poor. Endowed colleges, even Harvard, are poor. It is no good pawning the family possessions in order to maintain a sort of shabby gentility, and that is what perpetual tuition rises amount of if you stop to examine their moral complexion. --Charles M. Gray...