Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in a move aimed at bolstering housing by allowing it to raise its bid for increasingly scarce and costly mortgage credit, Washington lifted the interest ceiling on mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration. The increase, from 5½% to 5¾%, was the second ¾% rise in just over two months. It pushed the FHA rate to a level reached only once before in its 32-year history, from September 1959 to February 1961. With FHA's ½% mortgage-insurance premium, it meant that FHA home buyers will...
...student's project would be sponsored by a Faculty member, but would not be limited to any specific topic or field. There are many possible activities which, in slightly different form, are already given credit by Harvard: anthropological field work, research in a scientific lab, writing fiction, or making movies, for example...
...those in the Administration who encouraged "years-off" in the past recognized, projects which are not yet "academically respectable" at Harvard are very often educational. Credit might be given...
Dean Ford has approved a plan to establish a non-credit tutorial in Biology run through the Houses next year. The Committee on Educational Policy will have to take final action on the program this Spring...
...John W. Hopkins, chairman of the Undergraduate Committee of the Biology Department, which drafted the proposal, calls the new program "unconventional" because it is entirely non-credit and is not required either for the major or for honors. He said that the program, if successful, may be the first step to a required biology tutorial for credit...