Harvard is an economic boom to the Boston area. It provides well paying jobs. The people spend their money on restaurants and stores and hotels in the Boston area. Harvard as stated previously is paying for a 25 million dollar train station in Allston. Their need aid is one of the best in the country.
I don’t see any advantage to making Harvard totally free. A comment was made the other day by one of the presidential contenders that the top “.1” per cent of the wage earners in this country make as much money as the bottom 90 per cent. With a small little extra tax on that group with all their wealth , college for all in this country could probably be free.