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Ten Dollar Trouble

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It's always pleasant to see charity beginning at home, but not when it is undertaken in order to avoid an unpleasant decision. The Dean's Office ruling on the auditing fee must be classified under both of those heads. Announcing that Seniors "who find it difficult to pay the fee" may gain aid in order to pay it neither meets the Student Council's argument that auditing has been discouraged, nor provides any relief not already available to the needy scholar.

The half-hearted attempt on the part of University Hall to meet undergraduate criticism is doomed to fail. There is but one way to settle the matter for the second session, and that is an immediate repeal of the ten-dollar fee for all Harvard undergraduate and graduate students.

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