Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system of strict uniform rents will not be instituted this year, the CRIMSON learned definitely yesterday...
This plan, Administration sources indicated yesterday, would combine some aspects of the uniform rent plan with some of the present system. Extensive changes in the rent adjustment program are likely, since all in the University are apparently unhappy with this awkward measure...
Another important factor at stake in such a system is the effect it will have on prospective applicants to the College. Should a uniform rate be instituted, the admissions officers will no longer be able to explain that there are rooms available to students of limited means at $120 a term. There will just be the inflexible fact that rooms will cost approximately $500 a year for every one. This will provide yet another deterrent to the prospective applicants who are already frightened away from Harvard by the steadily increasing cost of spending four years as a student here...
...comparison with the arguments against a uniform room rate, arguments in its favor take on in general a secondary aspect. Certainly there are many which can be readily eliminated by a modification of the present system. One of the major objections to retaining rents as they are is that the deconversion which will result from moving upperclassmen into Quincy House would necessitate a drastic raise in the upper rent bracket. However, it appears that this possibility has been overemphasized. While deconversion may indeed occasion a small general increase in rents, most of the newly-vacated space will be taken...
...medium and high-rental suites will enable the Houses to meet their financial requirements by letting those who can afford it shoulder most of the burden. This "soak-the-rich" policy has long been Harvard's unofficial attitude toward the problem, and it seems foolish, just because of uniform, modern Quincy House, to let thirty years of hypocrisy go down the drain...