College Cuts

Having heard from all interested U. S. colleges & universities, FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins last week announced the terms and amount of the college cut of Federal relief funds for this year. Amount was $1,414,940 per month. It will go to 94,331 students in 1,466 institutions. Each college will receive $15 per month per student up to 12% of its enrollment. It must certify that aided students could not otherwise be in college. A student must do useful work around campus or community, may thereby earn up to $20 per month.

Big University of California had the most needy students--1,898. Princeton put itself down for aid to 275. Columbia listed 595; University of Wisconsin, 884; University of Minnesota, 1,158. Harvard turned the Government's offer down flat. Richest university in the land, it needed no Federal handout. Yale's conscience stuck at the required guarantee that each student aided would have to quit college unless the relief funds were given him. Explained Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell: "We felt that in signing this we would possibly be making a dishonest statement."

At small, aristocratic Williams, new President Tyler Dennett made his first big news in office by accompanying his refusal of aid with a thoroughgoing attack on the whole program. His arguments were the standard ones against government relief in any form: 1) It helps the unfit to survive. ''What appears to be needed is not more college graduates but fewer and better ones." 2) By accepting aid in an emergency, colleges will be demoralized into permanent dependence on the Government. "I therefore regard this procedure as little less than deplorable. I think it would be much better to request that colleges readjust themselves at once to a new economic situation, pare their budgets accordingly and go on a reduced enrollment basis."

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