John S. Dickey, president of Dartmouth, joined Robert F. Goheen of Princeton yesterday in asserting that "full-cost" fees are not a realistic possibility for any major college today.

Higher tuition charges than at present, however, are necessary in both public and private colleges for those who can afford them, Dickey wrote in a letter to the New York Times. On this point he is in agreement with Seymour E. Harris, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, who advocates gradually increased tuition charges in line with costs.

Dickey asserted that subsidized tuitions, particularly in public colleges, will damage the nation's educational system. Too much tax money will be spent unnecessarily on college subsidies, while vital elementary and secondary school systems become poorer.

In addition, many private institutions will be "forced out" by their inability to compete with nominal tuition colleges, Dickey claimed. As Jerome D. Greene '96, former secretary of the Board of Overseers, noted in another letter to the Times, "the alternative to the support of education by the endowment method is its support by taxation."