Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-02-13
HEPBURN GIVES $4,000 FOR ATHLETICS;
ANNOUNCEMENT OF TUITION INCREASE
Mddebuy College Campus Wednesday made public
wide general interest which the Register repoduces part
follows:
Tuition to be $3.50.

had voted that the tuition for the College
would be $50 instead of 500 as hereto.
fore, the new rate to take effect, Septem-
Der, 1920 His words in regard to the
matter, were as follows:
Nov as to the other matter 1t takes
money to conduct a college. Professors
salaries must be met, buildings must be
heated lighted, and occasionally repaired,
and the library and laboratories must be
equipped and supplied No American
college that | know of is managed for
profit. The charter of Middlebury has
no provision for dividends and trustees
even pay their own expenses when at
tending Board meetings.
"Ihe support of colleges of the type of
Middlebury, private institutions under
their own board of Trustees, is derived
chiefly from endowments, permanent
trust funds the income of which is de-
voted either to designated specific pur-
poses or to general support of the college.
1t is felt to be fair and right and wise that
such income should be supplemented by
tuition fees. The college is thus enabled
to provide larger and better opportunities
for its students and students make better
use of advantages to which they contrib
ute.
" There is certain proportion gener-
ally accepted as proper to be expected
from tuition. Well administered institu-
tions try to preserve this ratio between
income from endowments and income
from students. Philanthropists and be-
nevoent agencies refuse to consider ap-
peals from colleges which do not main
tain something like this proportion. My
first overtures to Mr.. Carnegie and to
the General Educational Board were un-
successful because at that time less than
one twenty-ffth of our annual income
was derived from tuition. 1t was sug-
gested that we ought to make better use
of our own resources before seeking out.
side help. The criticism was Just, and
the situation was remedied and both Mr..
Carnegie and the General Educational
Board became our benefactors
81 wonder what you would fix upon as
fair proportion of the cost of your col
lege education for you to meet your
selves Not what you could pay, consid-
erins your circumstances, but what it
would be fair for you to pay. You ought
not to be asked to pay it all. You are
putting in your time, four of the most
valuable years of your life, when you
might be engaged in gainful occupations,
in order that you may prepare yourselves
to render more useful service to society.
Society ought to do something to encour-
age and assist you. But it is great priv
ilege to render service of a high order,
the greatest privilege of life, and one
ought to be willing to make some sacri-
fees for it.
Will Cooperate With Students
Would you say that fifty-ffty basis
is about right? That a college should
match every dollar the student pays with
a dollar it secures from its friends? Now
as matter of fact the accepted proper
ton is one to two, one-third from student
fees and wo-thirds from other sources.
That is the proportion we ought to main /
tain at Middlebury
But as matter of fact we are not
now doing it. Our expenses this year
will be approximately $150,OOO, and our
income from students only a little over
$4,000 You note the proportion is one
fifth instead of one-third.
Moreover expenses next year must be
larger. Our instructors have
not had living salaries. In justice and de- 4
cency to them they must be increased,
and they have been increased. We can
not have the Faculty we want, men of |
sound scholarship and of strong person
ality, men of open mind and breadth of
view, men strong to lead both fearlessly
and wisely into the knowledge and
thought of the future-we can not have
such men unless we can offer them what
men of that calibre ought to receive, and
what they are going to receive, elsewhere
if not in Middlebury.
at was because of this necessity chiefly
that the Trustees at their meeting on
January % voted that the charge for tut
ton be at the rate of $3.50 per year. be-
ginning September 1920.
81 do not make this announcement
without very keen regret when think of
the hardship know it will impose upon
many of you. think | know something
Of the sacrifices you are making. You
will bear me witness that | have fought .
hard to keep expenses down. 1t has been
my boast that Mddlebury for more than
a century has offered special encourage
nent to the student dependent upon his
own resources. am not retreating from
that position, nor yielding the line single
nch. | propose special effort among
our alumni and friends to increase our
funds and our student loan
fund. promise you to work hard to
have available for you before next Sep
ember larger scholarship grants for those
who need them, and greater number of
hem. can not believe such an endeavor
will fail
after all what we are doing is only to
put ourselves in line with the good col
eges with which we would like to be
,lassed. Tuition at Wesleyan is now
5000, at Williams at my last information
$50, at Dartmouth $500, at Vassar $500.
By the class room period the rate would
not appear so large. You are now pay
ng only about 20 cents for each recita-
ion or laboratory exercise. One pays
-wo or three dollars, believe, for les
)ns on the banjo"
The meeting Of the Women OF st.
Stephens Episcopal church which was
IN have heen held with Mrs III. B. |