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...from $15,000 to $50,000. The plan uses a variety of loans, grants and student work opportunities to allow parents to pay off their debts to Harvard in eight years of monthly installments. Administrators say the plan has increased the yield--the number of accepted students who actually attend--of middle-income students. Before the PLP the yield among students in this range was about ten percentage points lower than other groups, but the PLP has brought middle-income attendence closer to the overall overage of just over 75 per cent...
...Board claims it has been working hard since 1977 to give Radcliffe a much-needed facelift. One obvious change in Radcliffe is a bureaucratic one. While the Harvard Corporation seems to prefer a low profile, the Radcliffe Trustees are actively soliciting student and community input. Student representatives attend the four annual Board meetings and the Board sends representatives to neighborhood council meetings in Cambridge, Susan Storey Lyman '49, chairman of the Board, says Radcliffe feels a strong need to avoid the "town-gown" problem characteristic of the relationship between Harvard and Cambridge. "We've learned from Harvard's mistakes...
Over 5000 people did attend the dedication, however. The night before, more than 500 people watched a panel discussion on "The Changing American Presidency," which featured John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, and David L. Halberstam...
...school. The number of applications dropped this year a substantial 11.5 per cent, and the shortage forced many departments to admit more than the GSAS standard of 25 per cent of the applicant pool. More graduate students than ever before dropped out at mid-year this year to attend professional schools. While Richard A. Kraus, associate dean of the GSAS, and director of admissions and financial aid, maintains that Harvard's graduate school accepts less of its applicant pool and enjoys more secure finances than other leading graduate schools, Kraus says this year--the first "huge dip" in applications--"raises...
...complaints, students are eager for a GSD planning degree. Stephen G. Hoffman '64, registrar in the GSD says applications to the department have risen steadily. About 255 people applied for 120 spots in 1978, and this year 240 have already applied. He said nobody who declined an invitation to attend the school mentioned the APA decision as a factor...