A 1961 article on soaring college costs and financial aid rings familiar, except for the prices. Yale tuition, room and board was about to go up to, gulp, $3,000 a year. (That's not quite as cheap as it sounds; it would be worth about $23,000 in today's dollars.) Today in WSJ History, May 29, 1961. (Corrected from earlier, when we said Yale tuition--not tuition, room and board.)

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