Bigger Dorms, Bigger Bills - NYTimes.com Re "Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup" ("Degrees of Debt" series, front page, Sept. Last week a cousin, just back from taking her son to Tufts University, mentioned the splendor of his dorm room, noting that his closet alone was almost as big as the library in an old house that I was sitting in. I remembered my own closet at Wellesley College in 1968. It was so small that our clothes had to be jammed in and eventually stood up on their own. But the full cost of our education that year was $3,100, and my mother, an unmarried schoolteacher then, could pay it on her own. VICTORIA SHORR Pacific Palisades, Calif., Sept.