Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years, the financial strategists of other universities have parried inflation by wrapping tuition, board, and other college expenses in one large and increasingly expensive package. Provost Buck, by including "free" athletic spectator and participation tickets in his financial recommendations to the Corporation, has made a bow to this tactic. But the Provost's parcel seems covered with question marks...
First, we must clear up the misconception that the College will be giving students something for nothing. Tuition money has always paid for HAA operations, and will continue to do so whether the HAA is in the red, black, or purple. The difference is that now students who use the athletic plant pay an added sum to the University, under the Provost's plan athletic costs become part of tuition. Every student "underwrites" the HAA equally. The Provost is following the strategy of the makers of innumerable chocolate bars, who, when inflation hit the cocoa bean, produced new bigger bars...
...easy to groan at, but impossible to quarrel with a tuition hike. It has been coming ever since the inflation of the Korean War. But any tuition rise at Harvard starts of frenzied grubbing for more scholarship funds, more student employment, and other ways to help the students from average income families meet the new rates. It shoves still farther into the future the day when Harvard can achieve a truly national student body, both geographically and economically, Because these unpleasant repercussions are inevitable, any tuition rise should be as small as possible...
...more valuable to an education than watching them, College physical requirements stop after a year of physical training, the ability to swim, and the knack of sliding down a rope. But even if athletic participation is essential to education, when inflation forces a choice between it and a greater tuition rise, athletics should take a back seat for the duration. A top notch sports plan means little to the student who must work longer hours to make up for his increased tuition package. It means even less when he knows part of the money he is earning is footing...
Buck explained that the athletic facilities ticket should be thought of as normal agencies of the College's educational program. For this reason, Buck feels, their upkeep, just as that of the libraries, should be included in general tuition costs...