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...Student Study Center's data most students' families can easily afford Harvard. The median income of student' families is$17,500--or almost 2 and one-half times the national median. For Harvard undergraduates, the average family income is $28,000. The fathers of students here are 84 per cent professional semiprofessional, officials, or proprietors. So the rest of the students--only 16 per cent -- come from the occupational groups that make up 74 per cent of the whole nation...
Perhaps even more revealing are the figures for those non-attenders who were accepted at their first choice, Harvard, but did not come. Seventy per cent of those specifically listed financial reasons as the reason. Fifty per cent of non-attenders had family incomes below $10,000 (of those who came $50 per cent were above $20,000) and 18.5 per cent were below $7,500 (as opposed to 5 per cent for those who came). The people in this group went to school like Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Carleton, or Duke and mostly had scholarships. It seems that...
Lowell House students will deliver letters to the Administration tomorrow asking that the demonstrators not be severed. Mark D. Wasserstrom '70, one of the organizers of the letter writing campaign, said that from 30 to 50 per cent of the students are writing letters...
Harvard had asked NSF to increase immediately its $5.4 million allotment by about $440,000, so that the University could maintain "a liveable level of project research." Harvard had received $5.7 million from NSF in 1968, and had anticipated a 14 per cent increase--instead of the 18 per cent decrease--this year...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences receives about 80 per cent of the NSF funds given to Harvard. The Medical School gets about 10 per cent, with the remainder divided among the Business School, the Ed School, and the School of Public Health...