Brown University has now joined Harvard, Princeton and Stanford in replacing a student loan program with a grant program. These schools are trying to ease the financial burden, particularly on families where the income is less than $100,000.

That's the gist of a very short article on the Associated Press. Perhaps there'll be a longer article about this in tomorrow's Times. But it's a step in the right direction, because the debt load of so many students when they graduate is just enormous.