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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I read Mr. Abrams' comment on the increased cost of education last Saturday with much interest, and as he presented the chief objections to it so clearly, little need be added. Indeed, I am writing this to show my agreement with him rather than to add to what he has already said.

I think, however, that I can point out how the new extra course charge is especially unfair to the man contemplating a professional carrer, particularly in medicine, and how it will react on men entering that study from Harvard College. It is possible now to go to Medical School with two years premedical work offered as preparation, but the majority of the men at Harvard who plan to study medicine try to get their degree in three years, and enter with the advantage of the degree and the extra studies that go with it. A large number of these men are mature men, and a still larger number of them are men of small means, so that both time and money is lacking to put them through the continued courses for eight years. Furthermore, they will hardly be willing to pay ten dollars more for seventeen courses in three years than other men pay for the same number taken in four years. Consequently such men will be forced to enter the Medical School under the two-year premedical plan, and in such cases the increased extra course charge will react on the University itself, for the greater part of the men preparing here at Harvard College for the future study of medicine plan to carry that on at Harvard Medical School, and a number in the writer's acquaintance would not be able to take the degree of A.B. under the new arrangement. Thus the College by this manifestly unfair and discriminating increase in extra-course charge will force men to go to the Medical School with the much less satisfactory preparation of two years' college work; less satisfactory especially because such men must take mostly scientific studies and are therefore deprived of the pleasure and advantage of a liberal education. J. W. LARRABEE '23.

May 10, 1921.