THE COLLEGE

DARTMOUTH'S tuition will take a jump of $150 next fall, raising to $1550 the inclusive fee that covers instruction, health service, and other charges frequently billed separately at other institutions. Board charges for 1961-62 will be unchanged, President Dickey announced, but there will be some revisions in dormitory room rents, raising the average annual rental from the present $348 to $386.

In its formal announcement of the tuition increase, the College said:

"The necessities which have compelled these adjustments in charges are shared broadly by all private colleges and universities. Many of Dartmouth's sister institutions have already announced or are now planning increases in tuition and other charges for next year.

"Dartmouth retains her historic concern that her opportunities shall continue to be open to promising young men who require help to finance their education. Necessary provision will be made in extended scholarships, loans, and employment for men now in College on the financial aid program, for undergraduates not now receiving aid who cannot meet the increased cost, and for recipients of financial aid in the incoming classes.

"The new tuition fee will still cover only about half of the cost to the College of a student's education, and the balance must be met from endowment income and current gifts, particularly the annual Alumni Fund which has an objective of $1,000,000 for the current year."

The tuition increase is the eighth since the end of World War II, when tuition was $450 and the average room rental was slightly over $200. The tuition fee since then has risen thus: 1946 - $550;1948 - $600;1949 - $675; 1952 — 5800; 1955 - $980; 1957 — $1170; 1959 — $1400; 1961 - $1550.

Dartmouth's 1961-62 charge will place the College in the middle of the range of Ivy League fees. Princeton and Pensylvania have announced $l600 for next fall, and Cornell, it is reported, will probably adopt that figure. Yale's tuition will be $1550, Harvard's $1520, Columbia's $1460, and Brown's $l4OO. Most of these colleges bill separately for health service and other fees.

Dartmouth will have the lowest combined charge for room and board in the Ivy League, and the average for tuition, room and board next fall, amounting to $2435, will place the College next to the lowest.

Under the new schedule of room rentals at Dartmouth, some rents will be raised and others lowered, but the net effect will be an average increase of about $4O. Dormitory room charges will range all the way from $250 to $525 per occupant.

Another dormitory announcement last month came from the Committee on Student Residence, which stated that the College was opposed to the establishment of freshman dormitories and that steps will be taken to avoid what have become de facto freshman dorms. A limit of approximately 40% freshmen in any one dormitory will be put into effect next year, and spaces for entering students will be reserved in each dorm in order to produce a better residential distribution of the four classes. At present, the freshmen get room choices after the upperclassmen, which results in few freshmen in some dorms and a great many in others, such as the newest residence halls on Choate Road. The general revision of the rent schedule is also likely to help toward a better distribution of all four classes.