$200 TUITION FEE ADVOCATED

Six recommendations concerning the proposed increase of the tuition fee of the University to $200 which President Lowell advocated in his last report, have been made by the Faculty Committee of which Professor Clifford H. Moore is chairman. The recommendations will become effective if passed upon by the Board of Overseers.

The chief reason for the increase is to make up for the deficit in the "University, College, and Library Combined Account," a sum approximately $20,000 last year and $50,000 this year. A permanent deficit is impossible. It is also impossible to raise a sufficient sum to do away with the deficit and allow the proper growth of instruction; the increase in tuition fees is therefore the only feasible way to raise the needed sum.

The recommendations in detail follow:

(1) That the tuition-fee be raised to $200.

(2) That this fee include the Infirmary fee, the graduation fee in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and all laboratory fees, except charges for breakage,--it being understood that the Corporation will make adequate appropriations for the several laboratories.

(3) That all resident scholarships and fellowships in the departments under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences be increased by an amount equivalent to the proposed increase in tuition.

(4) That the present charges for examinations to make up conditions and the present charges for additional courses be continued, but that for students taking less than full work payments by the course be pro rata, i. e., $50 per course, $25 per half-course.

(5) That the increased tuition-fee be put into effect for all students in 1916-17.

(6) That the tuition fee, if raised, be payable in advance in four instalments.