There is a report current which has gained more or less credence to the effect that an increase in the tuition fees of the University is probable.

Such a report is plainly apt to do damage; the fear of higher tuition fees would tend to keep many men from coming to the University. They would reason that all safe calculations of expenses must be based, not on the present fees, but on those likely to be established. The fullest growth of the University demands both that there be no increase in fees, and that there be no fear of such increase.

The University officials deprecate the origin of such a rumor and authorize us to say that it has no foundation in fact.

There was, to be sure, a proposition made last January in the Board of Overseers to raise the annual tuition fee in the College, Scientific School, and Graduate School to two hundred dollars. The proposition met with small favor; only five out of the thirty Overseers voted for it. Moreover, the members of the Corporation are understood to be emphatically against such a proposition.

Of the two governing boards of the University, then, one has already expressed itself against any increase of the fees, and even should such increase be voted by this board, it would be sure to be rejected by the other board.

The members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers are men whose opinions are not subject to sudden shift. With them at present so strongly opposed to the increase, no fear can be entertained for the future. Harvard's tuition fees will not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars for many years to come.