UNIVERSITY TUITION FEES ARE INCREASED

An increase in tuition fees at the University, made necessary by increased expenses, has been voted by the Corporation and Board of Overseers on the recommendation of a committee representing the Corporation and the various faculties.

In the College, the Engineering School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Architecture, the School of Landscape Architecture, and the Bussey Institution, the tuition fee is raised from $200 a year to $250, effective next September for all students.

The stipends of scholarships will be increased at the same time so as to impose no extra hardship on needy students of scholarship caliber. The total amount available in scholarships and other aids in the College alone will thus be raised to considerably more than $150,000 a year.

The tuition in the Graduate School of Business Administration, as stated recently by Dean Donham, will go up from $250 to $400, the latter figure representing the approximate cost of instruction per student, while due provision will be made for loans to men who cannot at the time pay the whole amount. "All-men," explains Dean Donham, "will be expected to be able to pay eventually by reason of the increased earning capacity brought about by their business training."

The tuition in the Medical School is increased from $225 to $300 for men entering the School next year, but the increase will not apply to those already in the School. The Dental School tuition will become $200 for all classes and will apply beginning next year to all men whether already registered or not.

No Increase at Law School

There will be no increase for the present in the Law School, which only last year raised its tuition to $200 for men then entering, or in the Graduate School of Education, which has been in opera- tion less than a year, or in the Divinity School.

Next year a fee for infirmary and care of health will be re-established at the rate of five dollars per student in all Cambridge departments eligible for admission to the infirmary, except that in the case of the Graduate School of Business Administration this fee will be included in the $400 tuition charge. Such an infirmary fee was formerly in effect but was temporarily suspended in 1916 for all men paying a tuition fee of $200 or more.

The increases voted were made necessary by a deficit last year of $161,000 and an estimated deficit this year of over $300,000. The Sub-Committee which spent several weeks in careful study of the whole tuition question, reported that despite the Endowment Fund, which enabled the University to put through a fifty-percent raise in teachers' salaries, nevertheless the increase in wages and other administrative costs, and in the expenses of maintenance during the past two years, made imperative a substantial enlargement of the income to be secured from tuition fees.

The committee which recommended the increases voted by the Governing Boards were composed largely of members of the teaching force. It was made up of President Lowell, Treasurer Charles F. Adams '88, Messrs. James Byrne '77 and John F. Moors '83 of the Corporation; Dean Haskins, Dean Yeomans '00 and Professors C. H. Moore '89 and J. D. M. Ford '94 of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Dean Roscoe Pound and Professor E. H. Warren '95 of the Law School; Dean David L. Edsall and Professor F. W. Peabody '03 of the Medical School; Dean Wallace B. Donham '98 and Professor L. F. Schaub '06 of the Business School; Dean W. W. Fenn '84 of the Divinity School; Dean Hector J. Hughes '94 of the Engineering School; Acting Dean C. W. Killam of the Architectural School; Dean W. N. Wheeler of the Bussey Institution; Dean H. W. Holmes '03 of the School of Education; and Dean E. H. Smith '00 of the Dental School.

A Sub-Committee consisting of Professor Warren, Dean Haskins, Professor Moore, Dean Hughes, Dean Donham and Dean Yeomans, made to the full committee an exhaustive report outlining in detail the business condition of the University, and estimating its probable deficit this year and the probable growth of the deficit during the next two years if no increase were made in tuition fees.

Characterizing the situation as an "urgent emergency," this committee recommended the increases which were later adopted by the full committee, the several faculties, and the Governing Boards of the University