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...system. Students are certainly aware of the problem: an overwhelming 91% of undergraduates polled favor a formal study abroad program. Nor can the university question the future popularity of the Stanford proposal, especially as leaves-of-absence become increasingly common at Harvard. Some 30 to 40 per cent of the Stanford student-body has taken advantage of this opportunity...
...even the "low" estimate of $5 is based on inflated brokerage commissions. Moreover, no one is calling for instantaneous divestiture; if the stocks were sold over a period of a year or so, the cost would be considerably less. In any case, Harvard normally turns over 20-30 per cent of the portfolio each year. More realistic estimates, based on Stanford University's figures for one-time costs, lead to a sum under $1 million...
...third provision of the bill would require corporations which are relocating to deposit an amount equal to 15 per cent of their employees' gross earnings in a community fund, Zweig said...
Members said that the Stanford program would probably meet the administration's stringent quality control requirements. Several members noted that each year thirty to forty per cent of Stanford's undergraduates participate in the program...
...Yale powerplay, which had hit on 28 per cent of its chances during the season, made good only 39 ticks into a Mitch Olson hooking sentence. Outrageously efficient checkerboard passing from Castraberti to Jon Weber to Poliziani to Hamilton alone at the left post made practical application of a textbook play...