HIGHER EDUCATION

Since the means to live is as necessary to an institution as to an individual, it is by no means surprising that Harvard has again raised her tuition fee. Already many colleges have fixed the cost of education at $400.00 or more, and the announcement from the office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences merely signifies that the trend of the times has proved too strong to be longer withstood. The depreciation of the dollar since the beginning of the century was the cause of the increase of tuition a few years ago, but neither the class nor the number of applicants was then affected, and there is no reason to think that they will suffer from the present change, which was found necessary despite the generosity of the alumni and friends of the University.

It is noteworthy that new students only will bear the greater burden and that they alone will benefit from the substantial additions to all scholarships and fellowships of the college and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Inasmuch as the cost of education is now to be commensurate with the cost of living, the University will become in a measure more self-reliant. None of the increase is to be used for aiding the program of expansion territorially but will be turned to the service of instruction, for one may expect that the opportunities for research will be increased by additions to the teaching staff, which should itself profit materially from the change.

Far from being an imposition upon those who are unable to bear it, the larger tuition fee is to be regarded as a long-deferred and necessary measure, one which will enable Harvard to maintain its standards as an educational center.