Letters to the Editor
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‘Harvard Leads In Aid Race’
I write with respect to the inference to be drawn from your article “Harvard Leads In Aid Race” [New York, December 11, 2007] — that Harvard initiated the program to convert what used to be student loans into scholarship aid.
In fact, Harvard was following Princeton’s lead, Princeton having earlier converted all student loan aid into scholarship aid so that no child would leave Princeton with a debt obligation forcing him or her to consider future options with that debt load in mind. Princeton’s bold act had to be matched by Harvard, Yale, and the other elite schools, and we should not forget who initiated this wonderful policy.
ROBERT POSTER
Princeton ’62
New York, N.Y.
‘Whacking Groundhogs’
To Andrew Wolf ‘s excellent analysis of the congestion pricing tax conundrum I would only add that Mayor Bloomberg refuses to tackle the true cause of congestion — all the free parking placards used by government workers to park their commuter vehicles [Oped, “Whacking Groundhogs,” December 14-16, 2007].
One has only to observe the lack of traffic congestion on any government holiday to realize this fact.
JOHN OST
New York, N.Y.
