THE COLLEGE

ANNOUNCEMENTS of increased tuition charges have come from the privately endowed colleges in a steady stream in recent months. On March 5 President Dickey made known the decision of the Dartmouth Trustees that they too are forced to raise the College's charges to students, effective with the academic year '955-56. The formal announcement was as follows:

Continually rising operating costs, including scholarship assistance, and prospective adjustments in faculty and staff compensation have made it necessary for the Trustees of Dartmouth College to make an increase in the charges to students. Beginning with the academic year 1955-1956, the College charges will be $900 for tuition and $80 for a general fee that covers such items as the health service, student activities, graduation, and other services frequently billed separately in other institutions. These changes represent an increase of $180 over the present total of $800 for tuition and added fee.

Scholarship funds will be substantially increased at the same time to safeguard the opportunity for boys of little means to attend Dartmouth. Following established policy, the increased charges will be taken into account in determining awards to undergraduates now receiving financial aid, and men who are attending the College without any financial margin may make application to the Committee on Scholarships and Loans for assistance.

There will be no increase in 1955-1956 in charges for board at Thayer Hall or dormitory room rentals.

With this adjustment in the charges to students, the fees paid by each student will continue to cover approximately one-half the cost to the College of his education at Dartmouth. The balance must continue to be met by income from endowment funds and from current gifts, notably the Alumni Fund.

The announcement to the parents of Dartmouth students was supplemented by a personal memorandum from President Dickey, who said: "We face the same general increases in costs that have caused many of Dartmouth's sister institutions to raise their charges for next year. In addition to adjusting to generally rising costs, the Trustees are determined to keep Dartmouth's salaries at levels that will attract and hold the best teachers. Additional resources for these purposes are now necessary if Dartmouth's strength is not to be impaired."

Our sister publication, The Bulletin, written by George Colton '35, has prepared an unofficial tabulation of the charges made for tuition, fees, room and board at other colleges with which Dartmouth is normally compared. This shows Dartmouth to be roughly in the middle of the group, as follows: Yale $1800, Princeton $1780, Brown $1710, Cornell $1700, Williams $1670, Dartmouth $1650, Colgate $1630, Pennsylvania $1560, Columbia $1556, and Amherst $1420.

Since the pre-war year 1941 Dartmouth's basic tuition charge has exactly doubled. In 1941 it was $450; next fall, not counting the general fee of $80, it will be $900. In the postwar year 1946 the College adopted a "combined fee" of $550 and in 1948 this was raised to $600. In 1949 an "added fee toward the cost of education" of $75 was added to the $600, and in 195 a the College adopted the present charges of $600 for tuition and $200 for the added fee.