Harvard Clubs Will Boost Help When Tuition Climbs

The $200 tuition rise next year will not seriously cut the number of Harvard Club scholarships, although it may bring a slight decrease in the number of regular applicants, especially in the West, Club officials stated yesterday.

With one exception, directors of Scholarship programs for five Harvard Clubs reached yesterday said that the increase will simply mean larger fund raising campaigns. The directors expressed confidence that the additional funds could be raised.

The head of the Boston Harvard Club's scholarship program, David A. Mittell '89, said that he thought his club's grants could almost automatically increase the necessary $200. "We'll just have to work a little harder," he said.

Boston Plans Increase

The Boston Club now gives $13,000 in aid to 15 or 16 persons which would mean a drive to raise an additional $3000. Mittell also felt that although there would be no cut in the number of applicants because the tuition will be no higher than that of Yale or Princeton, more applicants would request help.

A member of the Rocky Mountain Harvard Club in Denver, James A. Mars '29, said however, that applications from his area would definitely drop. Mars stated that three-fourths of the 20 to 25 students from that area needed scholarships and didn't believe his club's limited funds could cover the rise, at least for the present.

He added that the increase in tuition might be just enough to keep some of the regular applicants away as well because of the already great difficulty in interesting them in a college so far away.

Minneapolis Applications

A Minneapolis club official, David D. Peddie '41, said that his club turned all its scholarship money over to the University, which has already indicated it will expand its program of aid. The increase, he stated, however, would reduce the local 40 per cent of students paying their own way.

Francis P. Locke '33 of Dayton, Ohio, said, "Harvard should be a little harder to sell, but there should be no great drop in the number of applicants. About 60 percent of the Dayton area applicants are scholarship recipients, Locke stated. He anticipated a stepped-up fund raising campaign.

New York Harvard Club member, Francis J. Goodhue, also predicted a rise in scholarship applicants, but did not think that the rise in tuition would have any harmful effect on his club's program.

Harold Baker '42 former head of the New York scholarship program joined with Goodhue in believing that there would be no cut in the percentage of the tuition that every scholarship provided or application drop.