"The best bargain you can buy today is a Radcliffe education," President W. K. Jordan told 300 Radcliffe students who assembled yesterday to hear him discuss the recent $75 tuition boost.

Over a period of eight or nine years, he pointed out, prices have shot up an average of 72 percent. During that time--1940 until now--Radcliffe costs have gone up 36 percent, or only half the average spiral.