When a student at Suffolk University Law School back in the 1980s, I learned of the school’s humble beginnings. Gleason Archer Sr. started the school in attic classrooms in 1906 so deserving city and middle-class students could become lawyers. Under President David Sargent’s tenure, the law school has built a cathedral-like building on Tremont Street and raised tuition sixfold, again putting a legal education out of reach for most. At a time when young graduates are starting out with hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans, President Sargent and the trustees should be ashamed of the $2.8 million compensation package as reported by the Herald (“Suffolk tops charts,” Nov. 17).

Robert F. Feeney, Plymouth