Ups & Downs

Which is the best economy for a school or college: lower fees and more students or higher fees and fewer students? Last fortnight McGill University in Montreal took the second course, took also a leaf from the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference and showed itself patriotic, Empire-minded. McGill's deficit for the past year is $337,235, despite the fact that its professors and employes took pay cuts from 3% to 10% last June, saving the university $87,500. Last fortnight the board of governors upped tuition fees for next year, putting most of the increase on students from without the British Empire. (Last year McGill had 2,997 students, of whom 326 were from the U. S.)

Biggest upping is in the School of Medicine, Canada's oldest, which received from the Rockefeller Foundation last spring $1,232,652 for a neurological institute (TIME, May 2). Next autumn medical students, whether entering for the first time or not, will if Canadian pay $275 instead of $250. If non-Empire they will Pay $350. Other increases for Canadians range from $15 (Arts & Sciences) to $50 (Commerce, Physical Education). For foreign students all these fees are upped by an additional $50.

Schools. Last autumn, Riverdale Country School (Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y.) found its enrollment decreased from 255 to 230. Last week Riverdale cut its fees, urged other preparatory schools to do so. Headmaster Frank Sutliss Hackett said that teachers' salaries at Riverdale had been cut 10%, operating costs reduced one-sixth. Next autumn boarding students will pay $150 less than at any time since 1917, day students $75 less.

Most schools are now offering more scholarships and student aid than ever before. Big schools like Andover and Exeter are besieged with scholarship requests. Some schools which, without widely publicizing the fact, have raised or lowered their tuition fees:

Ups

Dummer Academy (Byfield, Mass.) $1,200 to $1,500

Forman School (Litchfield, Conn.) 1,250 to 1,400

Groton (Groton, Mass.) 1,200 to 1,400

Taft (Watertown, Conn.) 1,500 to 1,600

Westover (girls,

Middlebury, Conn.) 1,700 to 2,000

Downs

Castilleja (girls, Palo

Alto, Calif.) $1,800 to $1,650

Centenary Collegiate

(girls, Hackettstown,

N. J.) 1,200 to 1,000

Fairmont (girls,

Washington, D. C.) 1,500 to 1,400 Harvey (Hawthorne,

N. Y.) 1,600to 1,450

Mary C. Wheeler (girls,

Providence, R. I.) 1,700 to 1,500

Northampton Girls

(Northampton, Mass.) 1,500 to 1,200 Palo Verde (Mesa, Ariz.) 1,600 to 1,500 Putnam Hall (girls,

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.) 1,400 to 1,200 Storm King (Cornwall,

N. Y.) 1,500 to 1,200

Ward-Belmont (girls,

Nashville, Tenn.) 1,100 to 850

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