Statistics on Cost of Instruction

(We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The statement in your columns giving the statistical cost of courses of instruction states that "no definite plan for using these figures has yet been evolved, but it is likely that their value to the Administrative Board will be great." Assuming that Board to be governed by a sense of logic, their value lies clearly enough in the only conclusion those figures as presented can lead to, -- which is this: that the ideal course must be one given by an instructor at $ 1000 to 1000 students,--giving a figure of instruction of $11. Then all will be on a basis that would pass the most rigid tests of the most rigid business investigation. We shall be on a real business footing!

Meanwhile we await, not without trepidation, that other statistical table, which shall tell us what are and what ought to be the rewards of intellectual distinction among both teachers and taught. With the two tables before us, it may be that we shall be able to tell what are the relations between a business point of view and a high intellectual ambition. JAY.