Harvard Law School Hikes Tuition $200

The Corporation has voted to increase the Law School tuition from 800 to 1,000 dollars, a rise which will go into effect in the academic year 1957-58. The change will apply to all students, including those presently in the Law School who register next September.

Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, announced the Corporation's decision, saying he regretted that the increase had to be made. He pointed out that "without additional income, if would be impossible to meet future operating expenses of the School unless we curtailed some of our most important undertakings."

A large amount of the funds derived from this tuition hike will be funnelled back to needy scholarship students whose scholastic records merit such assistance. Griswold emphasized the fact that every possible effort will be made to see that scholarship students may continue to receive the necessary financial aid on a one-half loan, one-half grant-in-aid basis.

This fall, the College and the Business School upped their tuition to 1000 dollars and 1200 dollars respectively, so that the Law School increase merely keeps that branch of the University in correspondence with the most of the graduate schools.

Griswold, in answering the question, "Why didn't the Law School put its increase into effect last year?", said, "Probably the increase should have been made for the current year, but we did not want to make the change until it was inevitable."

Law School tuition was last raised in 1954 when it jumped from 600 dollars to the present rate.